Take an order from the page — gull system handbook

Where orders are written, how to read them back with an Excel source, and what it takes for an order to produce the documents straight away.

Take an order from the page

An order from the page gets a number and is recorded in gull system. Whether it also produces the documents is your call — and it is off by default.

Where the orders land

1. Open the page in Input sources → Web configurators and find Page settings.
2. In Where orders are written, give the path to an `.xlsx` file. Every order is appended as a new row; gull system creates the file itself, headings from the input names included.
3. Leave it empty if the orders should only be recorded inside gull system.
4. Read the orders on the page's own Orders list, each marked Sent or Failed.

The headings from the input names are not cosmetic: a file like that can be read straight back by an Excel source, so orders from the page can be processed by the same route as the spreadsheet your salesperson fills in.

When an order should produce the documents

1. In Wiring, draw a line from this web configurator to the folder the documents should land in. Without it the order has nowhere to write.
2. Switch Generate as soon as an order arrives on for the page.
3. Leave the Hub open and SOLIDWORKS running. It is the same run a row in a watched spreadsheet starts — the model is rebuilt and the documents exported.
4. Try it on yourself: place an order on the page and look in the folder.

⚠ Off is the default, and it is a full setup. A page that only collects orders while a person does the CAD exactly as before is a finished product — not an unfinished version of the other one.

An empty finish does not spoil the order. If the customer leaves an optional colour or material blank, the rule is skipped and the documents are written as usual — see Wire a finish to the customer's choices.