Creating and managing products

The sample interface that comes with Products on Demand (PoD) highlights the capabilities of the technology through a few tools that allow you to define, create, and export information products on demand.

There are two methods for product creation, Custom Product and Fixed Product.

Changing display settings

You can change all supported Maritime Chart Service Display settings before exporting your product.

1. Click the Change display properties button to open the Display Settings window.
2. Change either your Depth Contour (Meters) or Miscellaneous properties and see your display change based on the new values.

All display property changes will be reflected on your exported product.

Defining and creating a Custom Product

The following steps guide you through defining and creating custom products with PoD.

1. Pan and Zoom to the area where you want to create a new product.
2. Click the Define a Product button .

   If necessary, click the Custom Product tab.

3. Define the Scale of the product with a numeric value.
4. Click the Page Size drop-down arrow and choose a size.
5. Click the Orientation drop-down arrow and choose Portrait or Landscape.
You are now ready to insert the product extent.
6. Click the Create a new extent button .
7. Move the pointer so that it is centered over the location where you want to create the new product.
8. Click on the map to create a new product extent.

   A new extent is inserted into the map, and is added to the Export Queue.

Moving a Custom Product

After inserting a new extent, you may want to adjust its location. To adjust the position of your product extent, you can use the Move custom extent tool.

1. Click the Move custom extent button .

   Note:

   Fixed product areas of interests can't be moved.

2. Move the pointer over the area of interest (AOI) on the map.
3. Click and drag to move the AOI.

   Note:

   If you have two or more overlapping custom AOIs, choose the product in the Export Queue first. If necessary, click Move an extent to move the AOI.

Creating a Fixed Product

Areas of interest (AOIs) for fixed products have predefined paper size for a specific location and scale. Locations of available fixed products will appear in the map when a scale is chosen from the drop-down menu.

Note:

The Fixed Products tab may not be available in the Print Properties pane. It must be enabled in the product configuration.

Note:

For more information on how to enable a fixed product method, see Enable and disable product types.

The following steps guide you through creating a Fixed Product with PoD.

1. Pan and Zoom to the area where you want to select a new product.
2. Click the Define a Product button .

   If necessary, click the Fixed Product tab.

3. Select the scale of the product you want from the Scale drop-down.

   Areas of interest appear on the map.

   Tip:

   If you can't see the grid because of other map symbols, click the Change display properties button to open the Display Settings pane and turn off Data extents.

4. Click the Select an extent button .
5. Move the pointer over the grid and click Select the product.

   An extent is selected in the map and is added to the Export Queue.

Exporting a product

You can export one or multiple products created from the Export Queue list using the following steps.

1. Click the Export products button .

   The Export Queue window appears.

2. If necessary, type a chart name in the text box.
3. If there is more than one product in the export queue, choose the one you want to export.

   Tip:

   To choose multiple products, press the Ctrl key while you click the products you want to export from the Export Queue list.

   Note:

   If nothing in the Export Queue is chosen, all the products in the queue will be exported.

4. Click the Export Products button .

   The export process begins.

5. Click Open to view your exported product in a new tab.

Note:

If you want to download your exported product, you must do so before exiting or refreshing the PoD website. The download link will not be accessible once the website is refreshed.

Deleting a product

You can delete one or multiple products by choosing them in the Export Queue window.

1. Click the Export products button .

   The Export Queue window appears.

2. If there is more than one product in the Export Queue, choose the one you want to delete.

   Tip:

   To choose multiple products, press Ctrl while you click the products you want to delete from the Export Queue.

3. Click the Delete button .

   Tip:

   You can also press Delete on your keyboard to remove a chosen product.

4. Click OK.

The product is deleted.