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Creating personalisable products in the editor

Make a product personalisable: editable fields, mandatory fields, and conditional reflow.

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Written by Vipul Chhabra

Overview

This article walks you through making a product personalisable so customers can edit it (for example, add their name to a business card). Personalisation is set in the design editor on the Store Link side. By the end you'll know how to mark layers as personalisable, label them, and control field rules such as mandatory fields and conditional reflow.

Prerequisites

  • You can access the store's products in GelatoConnect Store Link.

  • The product has a design with text/image layers.

Step 1: Open the design editor

  1. In Store Link, open the store and click the product.

  2. Click Edit designs to open the design editor.

Step 2: Open the Personalize tool

  1. In the left toolbar, click Personalize.

  2. Under Type, choose how personalisation appears: In-page personalization (fields shown directly on the product page) or Editor personalization (the customer personalises in the editor).

Step 3: Choose the personalisable layers

  1. Each design layer (for example Name, Title, Phone) appears under Personalized layers with a toggle. Turn on the layers customers may edit.

  2. Set the label customers will see for each field (for example, "Name").

  3. Use Add Personalized Layer to expose an additional element.

Step 4: Set field rules

  1. Expand a field's Text options.

  2. Turn on editor-required field to make it mandatory — customers can't submit until it's filled.

  3. Turn on Character count limit to cap the length of an entry.

  4. Use conditional reflow / blank-line removal so that when an optional field (for example a second address line) is left empty, the blank line is removed and the layout closes up automatically. (See the videos above for a detailed walkthrough.)

Step 5: Save and check

  1. Set the Color space (sRGB or CMYK) as needed.

  2. Save, then view the product on your storefront to confirm the personalisation options appear.

Tip: Required fields, character limits, and conditional reflow keep customer-edited designs print-ready — they prevent empty fields, overflowing text, and awkward gaps in the layout.

What's next?

For designs built from print-ready templates, see: Using InDesign (IDML) templates for personalisation.

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