How do I create a new measurement type and its fields?

Before recording your first customer’s measurements, set up the measurement types. A dishdasha is not measured like trousers, and each type has its own fields.

Steps

1. Open Tailoring → Measurement types — Figure 1 — then New type — Figure 2.
2. Enter the Arabic and English name and the description.
3. Upload the template image: the outline of the garment you will later place notes on.
4. Add the fields — Figure 3 — each with its label in both languages, its type (number, text, choice or image) and its sort order.
5. Mark required on the fields that must never be left empty — length, chest, shoulder.
6. For a choice field, write the options in the options box — collar styles or sleeve types, for instance.
7. Upload a reference image for a field that needs explaining, then save.

Notes

• Order the fields in the order you actually measure the customer, top to bottom; it speeds the work up more than you would expect.
• Do not multiply fields; ten that get filled beat thirty left empty.
• The template image is the basis for the annotations on a measurement, so choose one clear drawing and stick to it.
• Create a type for each garment you genuinely sew rather than lumping them into one.