Update a page after changing the configurator — gull system handbook

A web configurator is a frozen copy. What the snapshot holds, what is read live, and why saving the configurator is not enough.

Update a page after changing the configurator

A web configurator is a frozen copy of the CAD configurator it came from. Until you export the page again, your customer sees the old state.

You create a page in Input sources → Web configurators from a finished CAD configurator. Exporting takes a snapshot of it: the inputs, the form and the rules exactly as they were at that moment.

What the snapshot holds

• The inputs from step 3, defaults included.
• The form from step 5 — the connected one, or whichever one you pick for the page.
• The rules from step 4. They are evaluated in the customer's browser, not on your machine.
• Library list entries, expanded. The page has nowhere to fetch them from, so they are written into the snapshot — which is why a new colour in the library does not appear on the page by itself.
• The look of the page: the layout, the viewer background and the camera.

After every change to the configurator

1. Change what you need to — captured items (step 2), inputs (step 3), rules (step 4), the form (step 5).
2. Open Input sources → Web configurators and your page in the list.
3. Click Export again. Until you do, the page shows the old state — and nothing about it says so.
4. Open the page preview and walk through what changed. The preview runs the same runtime as the real page; it is not a mock-up.

⚠ Saving the configurator is not enough. The export is a deliberate step on purpose: the page in front of your customers should not change with every half-finished edit to a rule. That is why the page shows you when it was last exported.

What is read live instead

• Where orders are written. The file path describes your machine, not the page. Change it and it applies at once.
• Generate straight from an order. It describes what your Hub does when an order arrives — not how the page behaves. So you can switch it off without exporting anything.