Publishing and versioning

Overview

HESH's versioning system allows you to track changes and manage multiple iterations of your products.

By reading this article you will learn how to manage your product development process efficiently and maintain a history of product updates.

Basics

The newly added product is created in a draft mode.

To convert draft product to published (ready to be taken into production), the following steps must be taken:

• fill SKU for configuration

• add at least 1 Workflow without issues

• fill SKU for variant

• make sure that at least 1 product's variant is active

Filling the SKU for configuration

1. Click on the "SKU" field

2. Enter the SKU for configuration

3. Click on ✔️ button

Adding workflow

1. Click on the "Add" button

2. Enter the name of the workflow

3. Click on ✔️ button

4. Click on the workflow zone to open Workflow template canvas

• Fill the workflow with the tasks and components that match your manufacturing process. See Workflows to find how to create workflows

• All requirements were met and product is ready to be published

Publish product version

1. Click on the "Publish version" button

2. Confirm by clicking on "Publish" on the confirmation modal to finish publishing

🎉version 1 of your product is published

Versioning

Versioning helps you:

• Track product changes over time

• Manage multiple iterations of your products

• Publish new versions without affecting current productions

To view detailed information about version, click on the accordion button on the "Version" tab

• Date of publication - indicates the date and time, when product version was published

• Version publishing status - indicates whether product is published or draft

• "In production - <number>" - indicates the number of launched productions with this version

• "Active" toggle - allows to activate or inactivate version of the product

• "Preview" button - allows to open version of a product in a view mode

• "Delete" button - allows to delete draft version

• To delete draft version, click on the "Delete" button and confirm by clicking on "Delete" button on the confirmation modal.

• To view specific version, click on "Preview" button to open product version in the view mode.

• To inactivate the version, click on the "Active" toggle and confirm by clicking on the "Inactivate" button on the confirmation modal.

• If product version is used as component in other workflows, it's recomend to click on the "related products" on the confirmation modal, in order to see in which products it's used.

• You can also inactivate product from view mode, by clicking on "Active" toggle and confirm by clicking on the "Inactivate" button on the confirmation modal. See Product version preview

• To activate the version, click on the "Inactive" toggle and confirm by clicking on the "Activate" button on the confirmation modal.