Properties are a way that you can add more data to different areas of your Creative Force instance. You can click here to learn how to add properties. Currently, Creative Force supports 14 different property entities which are:
Job properties
Outfit properties
Product properties
Sample properties
User properties
Location properties
Container properties
Style guide properties
Style guide production type properties
Style guide position properties
Vendor user properties
Session
Editorial Project
Editorial Deliverable
Along with the property entities, you can section the property into different types. This is useful when setting conditional rules for the positions or production types in the Style Guide. There are 4 different types of properties:
Free text
List of options
Date
Date time
Number
Free text
When the property type is free text, you can add whatever data you like.
As an example, the free text type might be useful for Colour code, Brand ID code, or Supplier code.
List of options
From here, you will create a list of options that your team member can later on choose to add to the product.
Sample sizes, Gender, or Season might be useful list options.
When editing a product, you can only choose from the list above.
Note:
When editing property, you can only change the property type from ‘free text’ to ‘list of options’ and vice versa. As date and date time are different formats, they are input differently.
Date
After creating a property as date format, the way you input data for that property will be a bit different from a list of free text properties. Creative Force will let you choose a date from the calendar instead of typing the text manually or selecting from a drop-down. For example, you can set the due date for when the product needs to be shot by.
Note: The Date type property is counted according to UTC time.
Date Time
This provides you a chance to put in a time alongside a date value. For example, you can set a product to be launched at a specific date and time.
Note: The Date Time property type is counted according to the Client's timezone.
Note:
You can only change the property from ‘date’ to ‘date time’ and vice versa.
When updating the date properties via file upload, please remember to have your property in the correct format DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY. Otherwise, the system will convert the value to a timestamp.
Number
This allows you to input numeric values into the properties. This will work better when you need to sort the values and use conditional filters (e.g., greater than, less than) to find your results.
You can use this property type to fill in the product's weight for example.
Learn more about displaying the numeric values here.
