What is pivot view, and how to enable it

Introduction

Products in Paragon are set up by SKU or, unique ID. This means that there is a different product record for every style, color and size. That, in turn, means that a new product needs to be added to a transaction for every size of a style/color/scale that is required. If you deal with large size ranges and many scales, this results in many lines on a transaction. 

Pivot view allows you to combine the multiple lines into one, with the size buckets displayed horizontally instead of line by line. This is commonly referred to as an apparel grid. Your records will combine into one line for each product and the scale will be displayed across the top of the transaction grid.

In this example, all the t-shirts are on one line and the size scale, small to large, is displayed horizontally across the top of the transaction grid.

Enabling pivot view

We will show you how to pivot on scale and by size. You are, of course, free to choose any attributes you want to enable pivot view.

Set up attributes for pivot view

If you already have created the size and scale attributes, use the attribute filtering option to determine which size links with which scale.

Activate pivots in my company

Hit the settings button

Hit my company on the system card.

Then, hit the edit button at the top right-hand corner to make changes.

Under module configuration, set the pivot on and pivot by attributes

Hit the save button. You will be asked to log out of and back into Paragon to save your changes.

 Set the identifiers in my company

Hit the settings button.

Hit my company on the system card.

Go to the identifier tab

Hit the edit button

Delete the item record

Add 3 new item lines - one for each style, color, and size

Make sure the last attribute matches the pivot attributes in the my company summary page. In our example, we want to pivot by size, so the ordinal for size must be set to 3.

Hit the save button. You will be asked to log out of and back into Paragon to save your changes.

Return to the identifier tab.

Select any item attribute.

Hit the rebuild record identifier: item button.

The message rebuild complete should be displayed:

Set up the product attributes

Fill in the attributes chosen in the identifier tab, as well as the attribute that you want to pivot on. 

In this example, we have set style, color, size and scale.

Please note that the lines on the transaction will only combine together if they are for the same style, color, scale, and have the same sales price.

The first column of the list view for the product module is based on the identifiers selected in my company:

Activate pivot view in a transaction

Entering transactions can be a long and arduous process, made only more complicated as more and more lines are added to the order and get lost in the shuffle. For customers that use pivots, the lines will be grouped by variety and in-group sorting will be done by the ordinal of the pivot by attribute in my company settings. 

To activate pivot view, hit the pivot button on the transaction grid.

If you identify your products by style/colour/size and have your pivots set to scale and size, your size runs will stay grouped together and sorted within the group by the size ordinal. If you manually edit a line number, the entire product variety will move together and be renumbered accordingly. 

Sorting pivoted lines

Paragon gives you the ability to sort your pivoted lines in a transaction alphanumerically or by ordinal. When sorted alphanumerically, for example, apparel products of the same style/color can be quickly viewed together in a transaction. However, sorting pivot view by ordinal can be particularly useful when items were purposefully entered in a specific sequence, allowing you to view the transaction lines in the same order in which they were originally entered.

 

What happens if I change the price for one record of a product?

The previous examples showed the pivot view on multiple lines of a product that all had the same price. However, what happens if you change the price of one line? Two options are available:

• Combine the lines and leave the price blank
• Do not combine the lines

To select which behavior you wish in your system, head over to the settings page, and click on my company. Then, hit the edit button at the top right hand corner.

Under module configuration, you'll find the allow pivot on items with different prices option. 

If the box is unchecked, the lines with different prices won't be combined.

For example, let's take this product that initially had the same price for all sizes.

Let's say we change the price for the x-small item. To do this, switch back to non-pivot mode, and edit the price.

Then, switch back again to pivot mode. Only the lines with same prices were combined.

However, if you decide to check the option, the lines that contain different prices will be combined. However, no price will show up on that line.

The same scenario as before would give us this result:

What's next?

Now that you've enabled pivot view, you can print the pivoted view by using our report template editor.