Small-scale updates are best performed in Finale 3D while mass updates may be most efficiently accomplished using Finale Inventory. Examples include adding new items, removing/hiding discontinued items, refining simulations, or updating pricing. Over time it may be necessary to make periodic updates and changes to your catalog. By subscribing, a user has full viewing access but cannot make changes to your catalog. Users can individually subscribe to your catalog by logging into and going to “My Account > Supplier Catalogs Settings”. When your catalog is ready, reach out to your main contact at Finale to have it published for all Finale 3D users to see. This step must be performed by a member of the Finale team. Finally, use the blue selector option Sync with network to upload your effects to Finale Inventory. Using the blue selector, switch to your effects catalog and press Ctrl+V to paste the effects. To copy all effects from your local file to your catalog press Ctrl+A on your keyboard, then press Ctrl+C to copy. To add effects to your catalog use the blue selector to load and display the effects file that you created in Step 4. Using the blue selector in the Effects window, select your catalog by finding the collection of effects that begins with “catalog” – at this point your catalog is typically empty. On the same page, you can give other team members editing access to your supplier catalog by adding them in the Finale Inventory User Assignments – this should only be used to share with administrators who need to contribute, edit, or modify your catalog. Here you can input your Finale Inventory credentials under the Finale Inventory Admin Credentials section. Once complete, you can link your Finale Inventory account with Finale 3D by logging in to, then going to “My Account > Connect to Finale Inventory”. During the catalog setup process you will receive an email from a member of the Finale team with a link and instructions to setup your Finale Inventory account. A Finale Inventory account is a separate account from your Finale 3D account. A Finale Inventory account is necessary to host your supplier catalog and share it with the world. For more information on creating or editing effects see “Effects basic instructions”, and “VDL Documentation”. You can edit the Visual Descriptive Language (VDL) for an effect by right clicking on the effect row and selecting “Edit this effect simulation”. You can preview simulations using your cursor by hovering over the small white bar at the top of an effect icon in the Effects window. Finale 3D will use information in the imported effects file to automatically create simulations. There is no need to re-import your original data. In the future, you can open the FDB file from by going to “File > Effect files > Load effects file (fdb)…”. Once your effects have are successfully imported, go to “File > Effect files > Save (fdb format)” to save the imported file locally on your computer in Finale 3D’s effect database file format (FDB). You also will have the option to select the units of measure for duration and prefire explicitly, or leave Finale 3D to guess based on the values (it usually guesses correctly). Do “File > Import > Import effects file… > Create new effects file with imported effects…” Finale 3D will examine the file and present a dialog telling you how many products it contains, and indicating what column headers were mis-labelled. Finale 3D supports importing files in the TXT or CSV formats with comma or tab delimiters, encoded as ASCII, UTF-8, or UTF-16 but the “Unicode Text (*.txt)” option from Excel is the most reliable. Table 2 at the bottom of this page contains a downloadable Excel template. Table 1 below contains a full list of columns that can be imported into Finale 3D. However, it is best to include additional information such as the category and subtype for each item to allow the catalog to be easily searched and filtered in Finale 3D. At minimum the list must include columns for the description and unique part number for each item. The first step is to create a list of your products using data from your price list, inventory system, or other internal data source. Ongoing catalog maintenance such as updating simulations or effect specifications, adding or removing effects, and changing prices (if the catalog includes prices) can be performed in either Finale 3D or Finale Inventory.ĭetailed steps to create/import supplier catalog: When ready for publishing the catalog can be uploaded directly from Finale 3D to Finale Inventory. The effect list is then imported into Finale 3D to tune and preview simulations and make any remaining adjustments. In most cases the best starting point to prepare a catalog is to create a list of products using a spreadsheet application like Excel. The supplier effect catalogs in Finale 3D are hosted by independent Finale Inventory accounts managed by the suppliers themselves.
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