How to Utilize the Orderable and Visible Part Properties

This article describes the purpose of orderable and visible part properties in Documoto, as well as how to override orderability and visibility of parts at the global and page level.

Page Part and Global Part Property Basics

Before going into the details of the orderable and visible properties, it's first and foremost important to know what the difference is between a page part and a global part property: 

• Global Properties: A global part property is a property that applies to parts on every page that the part exists on. 'Global' properties should be used if you wish to make changes to the item on all pages in Documoto.
  • Global part properties are accessed in Documoto Publisher > Part Manager.
  • To learn more about how to edit Global Part Properties, refer to: How to Use Parts Manager.
• Page Part Properties (also called a 'Local Property'): A page part property is a property that applies to a page only when it exists on a certain page. ‘Local’ properties should be used if you wish to make changes to the item on a specific page ONLY.
  • Local part properties are accessed in Documoto Publisher > Page Manager > Illustration.
  • To learn more about how to edit Page Part Properties, refer to: How to Use the Illustration Editor

Note: Part tags can also be either global or applied 
locally to a part only when it is found on a certain 
page. 

Orderable and Visible Part Properties

Orderable Property: Parts can be flagged to be 'Orderable' on the pages that they are found on, or orderability can be disabled, which hides the buttons to add a part to the shopping cart from the Part Info page and from the bill of material on a page for a particular part.

• This feature is commonly used when manufacturers want to display a part or component in their bill of material for maintenance or technical troubleshooting reasons, but do not want their customers to be able to order and replace that part on their own.
• In the screenshot below, you can see that the orderable property on part number 769166 has been disabled.

Visible Property: Parts can be flagged to be 'Visible' on the pages that they are found on, or visibility can be disabled, which hides the part number from the bill of material on a page for a particular part.

• This feature is commonly used when manufacturers reuse OEM part numbers for parts, such as bolts, washers or nuts, and those OEM part numbers are able to be found on Google or other search engines and easily ordered from other online stores.
• In the screenshot below, you can see that the visible property on item 2 has been disabled.

Note: By default, the orderability and visibility of a part 
are set to 'True' (i.e. set to be enabled) for all pages in 
Documoto. These properties, however, can be overridden at 
either the global part level or at the page_page level.

Page Part and Global Part Property Override Behavior

In Documoto, for orderable and visible part properties, ‘disable’ always overrides. In other words, global-disable overrides local-enable and local-disable overrides global-enable. The table below outlines how global part and page part orderable and visible overrides apply to pages in Documoto: 

As an example of how a Publisher might use global versus local settings to set orderability - If there was a part number in Documoto that existed on ten pages, but should only be orderable on one of those ten pages, the global part and local page_part property settings would be set as follows: