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FORMULA - numbers in brackets represent maximum number of characters
SOURCE(5)_SERIES(3)_TITLE(5)-YEAR(4)-SUPPLIER(2)-MEDIA(4)-LANG(3)-VARIANT(1)-CARTON(3)
Source
Optional five letters of the author surname or source or product type:
| ABDUL | Title by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá |
| RDUHJ | Title by Research Department UHJ |
| US | 2-letter country code for national publishing service |
| SITE | Product type, e.g. Website or affiliate site |
| BROCH | 3+ letter Product type, e.g. Brochure |
Series
Optional 3-letter series identifier
| US_CF_BAB2 | US Published, Central Figures series, The Bab #2 |
Title
Up to 5- letter title identifier
If this product is part of a series then 4 letters followed by the series number
| LOTFA_FARM5 | 5th book in the Fellowship Farm series by M Lotfali |
Year
Optional 4-letter year identifier to differentiate similar materials such as brochures
| BROCH_BC-2019 | Baha'i Children’s Class Brochure of 2019 |
Supplier
Optional 2-letter country code identifier, mostly used for Authoritative titles
| BAHAU_EPIST-US | US sourced softcover edition of Epistle by Baha'u'llah |
Media
Optional 4-letter media identifier
| ALEXA_ALL-mobi | Mobi-edition of title by S Alexander |
| OEA_TOLER-pdf | Office of External Affairs PDF on Tolerance |
Language
Optional three-letter “bibliographic” language code, English omitted:
| BAHAU_EPIST-IN-PER | Baha’u’llah's Epistle, sourced from India, Persian edition |
Variant
Optional one-letter variant qualifier, Softcover omitted
| EMBRA_PRAY-B | Embrace Virtues drop-ship supplied Prayer Board-book |
| BAHAU_GEMS-AU-H | Baha’u’llah's Gems, sourced from Australia, hard-cover |
Carton
Optional 3-number carton size for Carton SKU
| RUHI_ENG01-50 | 50-pack of Ruhi 1 English |
EXCEPTIONS
Ruhi Books incorporate the language and unit into the title identifier
RUHI_ENG01 (English Book 1)
RUHI_ENG05B1 (English, Book 5, branch 1)
Junior Youth modules incorporate the title abbreviation from the Statistics Report Program (SRP)
JYG_WS (Walking the Straight Path)
JYG_WS-PER (Persian, Walking the Straight Path)
COMMENTS
- All uppercase letters, do not use diacriticals
- Do not use symbols: / ( ) : ; , . [ ] { } + * & ^ % $ # @ ! ~ ' “
- Accepted symbols: _ -
- Avoid numbers unless they contain information e.g. book series
Product Images
The Baha'i Books theme handles variable width images; however, it has been designed for various aspect ratios that align well to published materials.
5x9 Brochures and tall books
6x9 Most books
7x9 Ruhi Books and wider books
9x9 Square children’s books
13x9 US-Letter rotated - children’s books
16x9 Website icons
All images in the Baha'i Books platform are scaled to aspect ratios of x9 (anything by 9), and the ideal image size can easily be determined. Exceptions can be made but it is best done only for a range of titles such as compilations that all have the same aspect ratio:
5x9 500 x 900 pixels (width x height)
6x9 600 x 900 pixels
9x9 900 x 900 pixels
16x9 1600 x 900 pixels
Initially, the ideal size was determined not to be 900 pixels but 864 pixels due to its divisibility by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18, 24, 27, 32, 36, 48, 54, 72, 96, 108, 144, 216, 288, 432. However, throughout the development process it was learned that Shopify manages its own fixed sized images and that this ideal number was of no benefit for website scaling.
Image Names
All product images are named as per the SKU. Some extensions are used for extra images:
OBAH_FAITH default image
OBAH_FAITH-inside1 inside image #1 (for image books)
OBAH_FAITH-2 secondary image
Resource Images for website elements
The following image dimensions are currently used
- 4-Up Home-page Grid icons: 16:8 aspect ratio 720 x 360 pixels
- Ads for Mobile Carousel: 16:4 aspect ratio of 1440 x 360 pixels
- Ads for LHS Menu: 16:6 aspect ratio 960 x 360 pixels
App: Documentation, due late December 2020
- Create custom documentation categories and link info to documents / Shopify Pages / documentation services
App: Import / Export, due late December 2020
- Export products and collections to Excel
- Import products and collections from Excel
Version 2.1.6. due late November 2020
- Customisations for Institute Request Form
- Home page edits
- Product page edits
- LHS menu carousel
- Separating variants such as softcover and hardcover into different products - with collection display management solution
- Reorganisation of menu structure in Baha'i Books App
- Wholesale customer address editing and comment field for draft order notes
- Clean-up of Theme Settings
- Speed enhancements
- Consideration for Dark Theme
App: Wholesale & Bulk Discounts, released 19 October 2020
- Management of Bulk Discounts for products, products with tags, picks within collections, and whole collections
- Management of Wholesale Discounts and Wholesale Accounts to national and international bookshops
- Management of Product Tags associated with discounts from Products with Tag and Wholesale Discounts
Version 2.1.5. released 19 August 2020
- Changed Institute Request Form languages to drop-down list
- Enabled option for search text to be lower-case
- Extra digital metafields for platforms iBooks, Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes & Noble
- Extra digital metafields for old-SKU for transitioning systems where old codes may be helpful
Version 2.1.4. released 2 August 2020
- author collections
- book categories displayed in product pages
App: Metafields Editor, released 19 July 2020
- admin App for managing all product and collection metafield data that can be accessed from product and collection pages in Admin
Version 2.1.3, released 9 July 2020
- checkbox in admin: hide digital edition checkbox in Request Form
- checkbox in admin: display Institute first in Request Form and hide details related to Customer Pays until selected
- For Request Form draft orders paid for by Institute, copy customer address and email to order but keep Institute as the payer
- fix rendering of handle-2 collections in product pages
Version 2.1.2, released 1 July 2020
- main menu replaced with popup available from all collections
- audiobook links enabled
- tag links link#Name#URL enabled
- panel background and website background colours added to admin
- Institute Request email sent to book admin when draft order created
- fix to Ruhi and Ruhi-prepub product templates regarding author-linked collections
- display of collection image enabled via collection metafield display:show-image
Version 2.1.1, released 12 June 2020