Creating Products and Categories | SRBG_003

To begin, navigate to the area of Infigo where all of your products are managed.

Enter a name for your new product and select the type of product you wish this to be.

The default list contains Stock, Static PDF and MegaEdit type products. More are available, but require enabling before they appear in this list. We'll cover that a little later on.

For a Stock product that we'll select here, no additional configuration or inputs are required prior to clicking Create.

Your product is now created and you'll be taken to the Product Details page.

The product details page is used to design and populate the front-end landing page for that particular product.

Every product, regardless of type, will have a Product Details page, and a correspond front-end product landing page.

This is not a requirement, but will add the product to a special section on the home page called Featured Products.

During the development stage of your storefront, it gives easier access to your key products.

On a live site, it is used to draw attention to particular products.

There are several description editors on the product details page, allowing you to design different areas of the page.

Each of these will be populated by a Rich Editor input by default. However, like we've seen in previous tutorials, this can be switched to a Code Mirror Editor (for fluent HTML users) or the Content Template editor tools.

This will take you to the front end of your site, directly to the landing page of the product currently being edited.

We see the beginnings of our product landing page.

At this stage quite basic due to a lack of input information, we can see the product name, along with some of the descriptions we have input.

Next, we will add one or more images to our product

The image will now be displayed.

This page can be used to change the design and layout of your product landing page for this product.

It contains settings such as changing the location of different description boxes and showing additional links.

We will not be describing these settings in detail as part of the rapid build tutorial series.

Enter a product name and select Static PDF from the list of Product types.

An additional button appears asking you to upload the PDF associated with this product.

Static PDF products allow users to purchase a static piece of printed artwork which is not editable. For example, an artists print or a static brochure.

The product details page is still dedicated to the design of the product landing page

Settings related to the specific product type can often be found at the top right of the product details page, accessed via a lighter coloured button.

These will take you to product type specific configuration options, for this particular product.

You can return to the main product details page with this button.

The default layout of Static PDF product landing pages will show the uploaded PDF as a preview, instead of the product image.

Everything else is largely the same.

Under the Product Types section, you can enable other types of products available within Infigo.

With the exception of MegaEdit products, these will not be covered as part of the rapid build series, however many of them have additional tutorial resources available in the Infigo Academy.

Categories are a means of grouping product that you wish to be associated with one another on your Storefront.

For example, you may have a "Stationary" category, or a "Brochure" category, containing related products.

Like products, categories have a customisable landing page.

You will be presented with a category details page, very similar to the product details page.

On this page you can input imagery and descriptions. As with product detail pages, you can also construct these pages utilising the Content Template functionality.

As with products, this isn't a requirement.

However it will make the category more easily accessible whilst we set up our Storefront.

Categories can be sub categorised inside other categories (also known as Parent categories).

Use this option to specify the category you wish to have as the PARENT category (i.e. the next level up).

This is not a requirement, however uploading no image will result in an "Image not found" placeholder on your storefront.

Products can be placed in multiple categories.

As with products, the layout of the category landing page can be modified using the Display settings tab.