Slab Manager
Customization

Many parts of Slabsmith are customizable.  This page is for Slab Manager customizations.

“Slab Manager” customization topics

Thumbnail tooltip

JPG labels

Thumbnail tooltip

When viewing your inventory in the “Thumbnail view” a tooltip shows when you hover your mouse over any of the thumbnails that shows properties of the slab.

How to customize the tooltip

The tooltip is customized by modifying a special view in the Slabsmith Database Administration program.

  1. Start the “Slabsmith Database Administration” program
  2. Select the “Views” tab on the left.
  3. At the top of the page, in the “Slab views manager” section, select “SlabManagerTooltip (internal)” from the drop down list.
  4. Check all boxes for the properties you wish to see in the tooltip.  (uncheck those you do not wish to see.)
  5. You can change the order by dragging the properties up and down in the list with the chevron on the right side of each property.
  6. When you have everything checked and in the correct order select the “Apply” button.
  7. Close the Admin program.

If you have Slab Manager open, restart it and your customized tooltip should now be working.

 

Slab JPG labels

To Export a JPG of a particular slab from Slab Manager, select the slab then click “Save slab picture as jpg” in the top toolbar:

When you export a JPG from Slab Manager it adds information to the JPG which includes:

  1. Height and width
  2. Inventory ID and Material Name.

How to customize the labels

You can add any slab property to the description labels under the slab.   To customize the labels:

  1. Open the “Slabsmith Database Administration” program.
  2. Select the “Scripting” tab on the left.
  3. Select “Image Label”.

If the window is blank, the default labels are applied (inventory ID and Name).

Example:  Customizing the labels to add the materials “Nominal Thickness” and “Finish”.

To add the thickness and Finish, paste the following text in the description window:

slabLabel = “ID: ” + properties.Item.get(“InventoryID”) +
”   Name: ” + properties.Item.get(“Name”) +
”   Thickness: ” + properties.Item.get(“Thickness$Nominal”) +
” Finish: ” + properties.Item.get(“Finish”);

On the Admin screen it will look like this:

The result of this script will modify the Slab JPG to look like this: