Create a web configurator — gull system handbook

Creating a web configurator in gull system: a new page under Input sources, connecting a configurator, the page's form, the page address, the submit button, Generate at once.

Create a web configurator

A web configurator is a page with a 3D model and a form, made from a finished CAD configurator. On it the customer composes a variant from what you exported.

A page is created under Input sources → Web configurators and is at the same time one of the intake methods in the configurator's step 4. Nothing changes for the customer until the next export — a page is a frozen copy.

Procedure

1. In the main menu open Input sources → Web configurators and click Create a web configurator. The page editor opens — the form designer with a browser-shaped canvas.
2. On the ribbon click Configurator and pick a CAD configurator. The first one connected is the main one; export and orders run against it.
3. Give the page a form. On the page root is Start from a form — it copies a Library form once. Edit the fields as in the form designer; a List with pictures from Options offers configurations as tiles.
4. Insert a Button with the Generate action. A page has no built-in order button. Without one the customer cannot send anything.
5. Fill in the Page address. Lower-case a–z, digits and hyphens only, no accents: `trailer`, not `přívěs`. The company address above it is chosen on the website under Account → Company. The resulting address is `https://<company>.gullsystem.com/<page>`.
6. Save with the header's Save. Then continue with Export the library of combinations — without an export the page has nothing to show.

Page properties (the root)

• Row: Published address - Meaning: the address after publishing, read-only
• Row: Local address - Meaning: `http://localhost:5050/<company>/<page>` — the page served by the app on this computer
• Row: Company address - Meaning: from the website, read-only; "(suggested, not saved yet)" until you confirm it on the website
• Row: Page address - Meaning: the page slug, see above
• Row: From width - Meaning: from which window width a layout applies — see Page layout
• Row: Page background - Meaning: the whole page's background colour
• Row: Generate at once - Meaning: off / on: whether an order from the page starts the CAD immediately — see Take an order from the page
• Row: Output structure - Meaning: only on a page without a configurator: where the order file lands

A page has no price. The price on a page was removed and will be designed afresh; an order carries none. A page that collects enquiries and leaves the price to you is a finished product.