New Feature: Product status visibility on PDF specification

What is Product status visibility on PDF specifications?

Product status visibility on PDF specifications is a new feature on the Erudus platform. Now, when downloading specifications as PDFs, the product status will show on the specification to declare whether the product is published or archived at the time of generating the PDF.

Who is Product status visibility on PDF specifications for?

This new feature is for all Erudus users.

Why have we introduced this new feature?

We’ve introduced product status visibility on PDF specifications as a direct result of user feedback - many Erudus customers wanted to be able to distinguish the status of a product when taking data within Erudus offline.

How is Product status visibility on PDF specifications beneficial to users?

Manufacturers benefit from being able to share a draft specification, which they might want to do for the following reasons:

• To share or circulate internally for review between different departments before the specification is published
• To share with a prospective customer, so the specification can be reviewed from their side before the product goes into production

This feature clearly states on the PDF that the specification is in draft - cutting down drastically the chance of the specification being wrongly used to inform customers.

Only published specifications that have been approved for communicating data via the Erudus Data Pool should be used for informing customers of product information.

It is important to note that taking a specification offline is no substitute for using the Erudus Data Pool when you need to check a product specification. Data on PDFs is static and unchanging, while the Erudus Data Pool is a live source that will allow you to see updated product versions if one is available. So, it is important to review offline data regularly if your business frequently relies on PDFs and offline data sources.

Similarly, if the specification states that the product is in a published state, it communicates to anyone reviewing the spec that the product is live, currently being manufactured and that the data is being managed by the Manufacturer.

Still got questions?

Hopefully this gives you a good amount of insight to this new feature, but should you still have questions, you can contact the Erudus Support Team via support@erudus.com or on 0333 121 89 99.