Adding Colors
The BOM allows you to specify colors for materials by component or by individual colorway. Show the Color and individual Colorways columns by clicking Hide/Show and selecting the Color or Colorways checkboxes.
Color Control Mode
Depending on the color control mode defined by your administrator, you can add colors to the BOM using quick search, or by selecting from a list. The three color control modes are:
• Existing Only: You can only add those colors that have already been added to the material. You select those colors from a list.
• Palette Only – Create Material-Color: You can only add those colors that belong to the palette of the season that you have selected from the Season list. You select those colors from a list. When you click Save or Save and Check In, the system creates a Material Color object for the material and color combination you have selected.
• Uncontrolled: You can add any color to the material, using quick search.
Colors Button
For more information, see the section Color Icon in the
BOM Function Icons. The insertion of colors from the
Colors button might be color controlled, depending on the material.
Quick Search
You can insert colors using quick search in the same manner that you insert materials. For information on using quick search to enter colors, see the section Quick Search in the
Adding Materials.
Color Clipboard
As discussed previously, the name of the last color added to the BOM is added to the color clipboard. The name of this color appears to the right of the (Clear) link, which is to the right of the Colors button. You can add this color to the Color or to an individual Colorway column of any row in the BOM by pressing CTRL and left-clicking the mouse. The insertion of colors from the color clipboard might be color controlled, depending on the material.
Free Typing Colors
When initially creating the BOM, it might be necessary to free type colors to create placeholders for those colors that are not yet known or defined. You can make free type edits within the Color or individual Colorways columns at any time when working on the BOM.