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Displaying kits on PDFs

Choose how kits appear on your PDFs: show every kit item, hide the items, or show item details and images on the kit header line.

There are three options available for displaying kits: showing all the kit items, hiding all the items, or showing some details of the kit items on the same line as the kit header. This is useful if you want to show and describe each kit item more clearly as part of the kit.

Showing All Items

For example:

Item table with kit "Table" on line 1 and highlighted component rows Table Top - Beech and Table Legs Set below it

This appears as follows, showing all the kit items on separate lines.

Kit line items on a PDF: parent "Table consisting of top and legs" with Table Top - Beech and Table Legs on separate lines

Hiding Items

Hide the items on the quotation (this can also be set against the kit items in the item edit page):

Quote items table with Table kit and its Table Top and Table Legs sub-items highlighted, each showing a hidden eye icon

This results in just the kit header being shown:

PDF line items table with Quantity and Description columns showing only the kit header: 1, Table consisting of top and legs

Showing Hidden Kit Item Details and Images

You can hide the kit items, but on the PDF template, add variables referencing the kit items. We recommend placing these kits in a dedicated section and using the PDF styling to specify this in the PDF template (see the {SectionStyleKitSection} underlined in red in the image below).

Use the variables {ItemKitItemXDescription}, {ItemKitItemXImage}, {ItemKitItemXDetailsDescription}, etc. where X is the kit items number in the kit, i.e. ItemKitItem1Image, ItemKitItem2Image etc.

Word PDF template table using kit variables like {ItemKitItem1Description} and {ItemKitItem1Image} for each kit item

The section style needs to be set up in your account, and can then be set here on the quote:

Quote section item list with the PDF Style dropdown set to KitSection highlighted at the top right, above kit items

The result is one line for the kit, but with kit item details and images shown within that.

PDF kit line with quantity 1 listing Table Top - Beech and Table Legs, plus images of a beech wood sample and metal legs

Note: Kit items must be marked as hidden for this to work.

Learn more: kits in Zigaflow

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