Global Designer Settings

The Global Designer Settings page is where you set the behavior of the Designer for online stores that use it. If desired, the settings you put in place may be overridden by the stores themselves.

Prerequisites

• You must have administrator access to use this feature

To configure default Designer settings:

1. Log into your DecoNetwork website.
2. Browse to Admin > Websites.

   Click Global Designer Settings, then Global Designer Settings again.

   

   The main work area contains the settings which can be configured:

   Store override option

   • When set to ON, Allow stores to override settings will let affiliate stores reconfigure the settings you put in place here. When OFF, the Designer settings are locked and the affiliate screen to reconfigure the Designer settings is hidden from affiliates.

   Cropped design warning

   • If a design is moved outside the decoration area, the Designer will warn the user that their image will be cropped when the Warn if outside design area option is ON.

   Text options

   
   • By default, a text layer is named "text" and this can be renamed if required. Entering a new name (singular and plural for text) will use this new word (or words) in place of "text" in the Designer.
     

     Some of the places that "text" would be replaced by your word choice.

   • Show text dimensions set to ON will show the measurements of the text in the layer properties panel.
   • Show advanced text options set to ON reveals extra editing options in the Designer.
     • With Show advanced text options enabled, you may choose to have them expanded when the Designer starts up when Start with advanced options expanded is set to ON.

   Image options

   
   • The default name of a design element is a "design" and this can be renamed (singular and plural) in the Rename "design" to fields.
   • Show image dimensions set to ON will show the measurements of the design area in the layer properties panel.
     
     

     Dimensions in the frontend Designer

     

     Dimensions in the Business Hub Designer

   • Show advanced text options set to ON reveals extra editing options in the Designer.
     • With Show advanced options enabled, you may choose to have them expanded when the Designer starts up when Start with advanced options expanded is set to ON.
   • For precision, Show degrees when rotating ON will give the specific measurement for rotation of designs.
   • The Show remove background option checkbox, allows you to toggle the option to remove the background from an image on and off in the Designer. When the checkbox is ticked, the remove background option will be available. When it is un-ticked the option be disabled.
     

     remove background option in the frontend Designer

     
     

     remove background option in the Business Hub Designer

   Team Name Options

   • The default name of a Team Name area is a "Team Name" and this can be renamed (singular and plural) in the Rename "team name" to fields.

   Design area toolbar

   • Show zoom option enables and disables the ability to zoom in to the decoration area being worked on.
     
   • Show copy/paste 'all' allows you to toggle the ability to copy and paste all decorations in the Designer.
   • Show copy/paste 'selected' allows you to toggle the ability to copy and paste multiple selected decorations in the Designer.

     If neither Show copy/paste 'all' and Show/copy paste 'selected' are set to ON, the copy and paste function will not be available in the Designer.

   • Show 'Select All' allows you to toggle the ability to select all decorations in the Designer.

   Area selection/zoom behavior

   • Clicking area in designer selects it will toggle whether or not the clicked decoration area becomes the focus of the Designer.
     • Additionally, the Designer may Automatically zoom into area at the same time, if enabled.

   Loading behavior

   • If enabled, Show Get Started popup on load will cause the Designer to start up displaying a dialog directing the user to add a decoration to the product.
     
   • If enabled, Designer opens with cheapest decoration method selected when no product is chosen will cause the Designer to start up with the price for the cheapest decoration method displayed when the Designer is loaded without first choosing a product (i.e. when the Designer is not loaded via the "Start Designing" button for a particular product but directly via the Designer menu item).

   Design options

   • If enabled, Show stock designs will display stock designs that have been selected as usable within DecoNetwork.
     

     The Stock Design node in the design selector.

     

     Where to add Stock Designs to DecoNetwork - See Stock Designs.

   • If enabled, Show template filter will show the template filter in the Select A Design popup in the Designer.
     

   Decoration Processes

   • If enabled, Show not available processes in the ‘select process' popup will cause decoration processes that cannot be used to be hidden rather than disabled in the Select Processes popup in the Designer.