This article will help you find and add various fixtures to a gondola in DotActiv software. Adding A Fixture Before you can add any fixtures, you must either open an existing planogram or create a new gondola. Open DotActiv, navigate to the ‘Space Planning’ tab. Then, in the ‘Shelf Planning’…
This article will help you setup DotActiv integration with Activ8 for planogram communication. Set Connection Settings Navigate to Administration, and then Application Settings in the left menu bar. If this menu item does not exist, you may not have permission to change these settings. On the ‘DotActiv Integration’ tab under…
The purpose of this article is to explain export tables. The export data feed is an ad-hoc data feed that populates based on information uploaded by planograms to the database. This information can be used for data reports. Export Tables Process This data feed forms part of the original staging…
This article will provide clarity on useful and easy ways for you to validate your data prior to the integration process. Reviewing Data Prior To Importing DotActiv follows a simple process when reviewing your data prior to being imported into the database. This includes an integration check script, which validates…
In this article, we will cover how to work with CSV’s. It will provide you with a general guideline on how to prep your CSV to ensure all the relevant columns are populated before importing it into the database. Working With A CSV DotActiv follows a simple process when reviewing…
This article will provide a thorough explanation of a staging table. It will also cover the relevance of staging tables in the DotActiv software. What Are Staging Tables? A staging table is a database table containing your business data. In the context of the DotActiv software, it consists of your…
This article will help guide you on how to install and configure the DotActiv Import Utility so that you can start integrating data into the DotActiv environment. It will cover the basic installation and configuration of the utility. What Is The Import Utility? The DotActiv Import Utility is used to…
This article discusses a few server requirements that do not fall under hardware/software requirements and covers various options for integration. Server Requirements Options For Integration DotActiv can run on a dedicated or shared server. With a shared server, ensure that there will be sufficient resources to run the DotActiv application…
This article will provide you with a step-by-step process on how you can update the database. If there is information in the display structure that has not been populated or information you would like to edit, you can do this by updating the database. There are two ways to update…
This article will enable you to easily manage naming conventions in the hierarchy display structure by using the change category tool found in DotActiv software. The change category tool is especially convenient when you want to check that your naming conventions are all spelt correctly to avoid not having the…