Conditional rules

While it’s common to have multiple production types and positions built into your Workflows and Style Guides, we understand that not all products have the same image requirements. This is where conditional rules come in. Conditional rules allow you to turn specific production types and positions on or off based on your product data.

To set conditional rules, go to ‘Style Guides’ under the Production tab, then 'Edit' next to the relevant style guide.

To create conditional rules, go to Photography and click the 'three-cubes' icon next to the production type.

The settings box will appear for you to set the rules. You can set up the rules depending on:

Depending on the property type, if it is free text or a list of options, your settings here will be ‘equals’, ‘contains’, or ‘is empty’.

Note:

Values for setting up conditional rules are not case-sensitive.

With the above example, the production type will be enabled when:

If the property type is set to date and date time, your settings will be ‘before’, ‘after’, or ‘equal to’, the value.

With this example, after updating the conditional rules, the On Model production type will be turned on only when a product meets all the following conditions:

If the above conditions are not met, the On Model will be disabled automatically.

You can add more conditions to your rule by clicking ‘add section’. Creative Force will look for a match with the first clause and then move to the next one.

In our example below, the rule now has two clauses.

Once conditional rules are set, Creative Force will display that the production type has conditional rules with the alert shown below.

To create conditional rules for positions, click the 'Settings' icon next to the position and then choose ‘Conditions’.
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With Production rule, you can choose to enable or disable this position when:

This is useful when you want to provide additional shots for the ‘Shop The Look’ on your website.

For example, the below style guide has three positions: Front, Back, and Details. The last position has this condition set up: ‘Active when not producing an outfit’.

This means that when you scan product ZL09384-946, which has two outfits in Kelvin, the ‘Details’ position won’t be available.

With Property rule, you can set up conditions from all previously created properties.

With Source rule, you can choose between products with Photo production or Vendor-provided images.

Once the conditions have been set up for a position, Creative Force will show the three-cube icon to notify you.

In addition to production types and positions, you can now control when and if a variant is active based on: its data, a production situation, or its source.

For more information on using 'AND' - 'OR' logic, please see our article here.