Program help

Settings (pCon.planner Pro)

Article Settings

Change Rendering of Articles in Design

Article Creation Default Settings

Catalog Settings

Define Default Catalog

Hide Manufacturers

Change Order of Manufacturers

Language

There are separate settings options in pCon.planner Pro for articles and the B2B Catalog. These are presented in this section.

Article Settings

Change Rendering of Articles in Design

Whatever the default settings, the rendering of articles can be changed. In the Edit Articles group in the Articles tab, there are three buttons provided for this: Display 2D, Display 3D and Display 2D and 3D.

To change the rendering of an Article, select it and then click on whichever of the three buttons you desire.

Article Creation Default Settings

First, open the B2B Catalog (via the Toolbar, for instance). The cogwheel symbol in the upper right corner of the B2B Catalog window takes you to the rendering settings for articles. 

When you have clicked on it, a dialog with two tabs will open.

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On the Miscellaneous tab, you can set articles newly inserted into pCon.planner to be rendered by default as 2D only, 3D only or 2D and 3D.

Here you can set your first and second choices for the Article Languages in which the properties of articles are to appear in the Properties Editor. If the first choice of language is not available, the program will show the second.

Catalog Settings

Define Default Catalog

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In the B2B Catalog, which can be opened from the Toolbar, for instance, a click on the cogwheel symbol will take you to the Catalog Settings. The Catalogs register is where to define which catalog is to appear when you click the B2B Catalog button.

This setting saves you navigation time in instances where you are using the data from the same catalog all the time for a certain project.

Hide Manufacturers

In order to hide a manufacturer in the B2B Catalog, select the manufacturer in the list on the left and click the >. This moves the manufacturer to the right side (Hidden Catalogs). To show the catalog in the B2B Catalog window, select it in the right list and click <.

Clicking on >> or << moves all of your catalogs to the other list.

Change Order of Manufacturers in the Catalog Window

The Active Catalogs list determines the order of the catalogs in the B2B Catalog window. You have the following options to sort your catalogs:

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Sort catalogs alphabetically

If this button is active, the list of manufacturers is sorted alphabetically. This sorting is active by default. If you deactivate it by clicking on the button, you can change the order of the catalogs manually.

 

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Move up

Selected catalogs are moved up one position in the list.

Moving in the list is also possible using drag & drop and the context menu.

 

 

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Move down

Selected catalogs are moved down one position in the list.

Moving in the list is also possible using drag & drop and the context menu.

 

Note: If the Sort catalogs alphabetically button is deactivated, new manufacturers are initially always placed at the end of the list. If necessary, move these new manufacturers manually to the desired position in the list.

Language

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The language setting options for catalogs installed on your computer are to be found by clicking on the symbol within the B2B Catalog (circled in red on the upper screenshot) and then selecting the second tab, Miscellaneous. Here you will find Catalog Languages and you can set your first and second choices for the language in which the properties of articles are to be shown in the B2B Catalog. If the first choice of language is not available the program will show the second.