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Fields in the General tab must be carefully filled in. If the mandatory data are not completed, the contact lens will not be correctly describe in the exported catalog.

Reminder: the unique key of a product is determined by:

• The manufacturer code (contact lens authentication frame)

• The distributor code (contact lens authentication frame)

• The product code (contact lens code frame)

Contact lens identification

In this frame you can enter a manufacturer, a distributor and a name to a contact lens. 

How to enter the contact lens characteristics:

• Assign a manufacturer and a distributor (mandatory)

  1. When the catalog does not contain a product, that it is created from scratch the manufacturers and distributor do not exist, so they will have to be created (see documentation IWICATALOG - Parameters: Fab/Dist tab for creation then to know how to replace manufacturers and/or distributors in the catalogs when exporting)

  2. If the catalog has been imported, the codes entered in the catalog will be indicated in each product

• Fill in the contact lens name (mandatory) (number of characters depending on the format):

  • 60 👉 in Opto11

  • 50 👉 in Optimeyes

• Trial contact lens (mandatory): to indicate if the contact lens is a trial contact lens or if it is a trial contact lens at the time of ordering

• Public product: to indicate if the product is available in the Public catalogs or only for particular Groupment(s)

Contact lens codes

• Product code (mandatory): attributed by the manufacturer, this code must be unique in the catalog

• EDI code (mandatory): the code to use when ordering. If it is not used then it will be equal to the product code

Main characteristics

• Type of vision (mandatory): to indicate the type of correction and to know if the addition or the cylinder must be entered:

  • Spheric, no addition and no cylinder

  • Progressive spheric, addition mandatory and no cylinder

  • Toric, no addition and cylinder mandatory

  • Progressive toric, addition mandatory and cylinder mandatory

• Contact lens type (mandatory): to indicate if the contact lens is soft or hard

  • For a soft lens, you will have access to the data:

    • Contact lens material (optional): whose expected values are : Hydrogel, Silicon hydrogel and Non-hydrogel

  • For a hard contact lens, you will have access to the following data

    • Contact surface (optional): whose expected values are corneal and scléral

•  Material (mandatory): to designate the commercial name of the material

• Pupil color (mandatory): to indicate if the contact lens is a colored contact lens or not

  • Tint: if it is a colored lens, you must fill in the commercial name of the color. We recommend to put this information in the case of a colored lens.

• CL usage (mandatory): to indicate the periodicity use of the contact lens (from daily to 2 years)

• Wear schedule (mandatory): to indicate if it a daily or extended wear

Groupments

For further information on the management of the groupments, follow this link 👉 IWICATALOG - Groupment management

To add a groupment on a lens, follow this link 👉 IWICATALOG - Groupment management

Follow this link 👉 IWICATALOG - EDI catalog settings to see how to manage groupments in exports.

Families

Families are used as filters. They can be used in iWiCatalog in order to easily find a set of products but also in exported catalogs in order to include or exclude products belonging to a family.

Follow this link 👉IWICATALOG - EDI catalog settings to see how to manage families in exports.

To add a family on a product, you will have to click on the list of available families and then to click on the blue Add button to make it appears in the table.

Only the families visible in the table are available on the product.