I wish to consult a catalogue
The Deck catalogue
The catalogue is a central element of the Deck platform. A catalogue is first of all a way to select the products you wish to list. But it is above all a way to sort these products and to convey the right level of information about them. Deck allows you to create a multitude of catalogues to represent your product selections, ranges or sales plans. In this example, we will explore a catalogue that contains all products in the PPE analytics database.
Fragments: Grouping similar products
As you may have noticed, the Deck catalogue allows you to group products with common characteristics into “fragments”. On the catalogue homepage for instance, products are grouped into “hand protection”, “foot protection” and “head protection” fragments.
Several display modes are available to show the desired level of detail for each product.
Fragmentation: several paths to explore your catalogues
Each of these fragments is clickable, which in turns splits the products it contains into new fragments. Several fragmentations are available to explore a catalogue for different purposes. When looking for PPEs to protect an employee, one can opt for a fragmentation “by risk”. This means products with similar risks are grouped together. When benchmarking market offers, one would favour a fragmentation “by technical criteria”, grouping products according to how they have been designed.
Let’s imagine we want to find out how many products protect both against cuts and heat. We can fragment our catalogue “by risk”. We then click on “Mechanical gloves” to generate a risk-based fragmentation of mechanical gloves.
A product can only appear in a single fragment. Therefore, a glove that meets the “Cut” AND “Heat” criteria will not appear in the “cut” fragment, nor in the “heat” fragment. It will only be featured in the “Cut AND Heat” fragment. Here is our result: there are 216 mechanical gloves that protect both against cuts AND heat, and here is the list.
By clicking on this fragment, we can access a new fragment that provides a mapping of this market according to 2 relevant criteria: cut and heat. The first column gives us information on the level of cut protection: medium, high or very high. And for each level, we can assess the level of contact heat protection. We can see that there are 74 gloves that combine a medium cut protection AND a level 1 contact heat protection.
As you may have noticed, we started with the simple question “How many gloves protect against heat and cut?”. By choosing the right fragmentation, we found our answer and the precise mapping of this market.
Browsing sidebar
The user can also explore a catalogue through the browsing sidebar. It can be accessed by clicking on this button from anywhere in the catalogue.
It consists in a tree structure of the selected fragment and allows easy navigation between fragments. Back to our example, we can open the fragment “Hand protection”, then “Mechanical glove”, then “Cut and heat risks” to access our product mapping.
Highlighting: Pick useful information you wish to highlight in your catalogue
Having a catalogue is good. Making it your own is better! To customise it, you can apply an entity to your catalogue to display only the information related to this entity. Your catalogue will assume the entity’s colour scheme: sorting, pictograms and data are all customisable!