Content Studio improves automation features; with material creation, bulk duplication, and TOC generation, brings productivity gains; with attribute reuse, ordering and autofill, an improved UX; with materials UI, error handling and mapping visibility, and stronger data integrity with dependency-aware deletion.
✨ New Features 🚀 Enhancements & Improvements
Authoring & Productivity
- Entity Ordering; Drag-and-drop reordering of groups, items, features, and options
Multi-select support with visual placement indicators - Attribute Management; Cut, copy, paste, add, and remove attributes across entities
Preserves values and properties; includes validation and feedback - Advanced Duplicate (Bulk Variations); Generate multiple product variants using a single dimension (e.g. width/height/depth). Configurable increments and batch creation.
- Auto Populate Fields; One-click propagation of code → name, planView, and refCodes during entity creation
Automation & Efficiency
- Material Creation Automation (Flooring); Auto-generates materials, geometry, and associations from item data. Reduces creation time by ~60%.
- Catalog TOC Generation (Template-Based); Automatically organises products into groups based on classification rules. Flags unmatched items for manual review.
UX / UI Improvements
- Material Management UX (Phase 2); 3D material viewer with live updates. Gallery/grid view with thumbnails.
Tabbed editing interface. - MapToTemplate UX; Displays matched/unmatched products with suggestions. Editable template selection.
- Error Handling Improvements; Clear, actionable, user-friendly error messages. Includes error codes, guidance, and help links.
Integrations
- Blender Integration (Geometry Modelling); Launch items directly in Blender for editing. Sync updates back via Authoring APIs (MetaMax plugin).
Data Integrity & Governance
- Protected Entity Deletion; Prevents deletion of entities referenced by others. Provides detailed error messaging and dependency visibility.
Command-Based Features
- Template-Based Catalog Organisation; Command to auto-generate product group hierarchy from classification data.