Products & configurator — admin guide

Audience: operators · Scope: managing the product catalog and the configurator · Last reviewed: 2026-07-20

TL;DR — This is the heart of the site: the products customers browse and the configurator they use to build a luminaire and get a product code, price, and spec sheet. These articles show how the catalog is put together and how to do the everyday jobs — edit a product, manage families and finishes, and refresh the performance (photometric) data.

Start here

• How the catalog and configurator fit together — the big picture: read this first so the other articles make sense.

Tasks

• Add or edit a product
• Discontinue a product
• Manage product families
• Manage finishes
• Manage the browse filters (mountings, shapes, applications)
• Import performance (photometric) data
• Design a product's spec sheet
• Manage a product's downloads
• Manage shared files (Global Product Materials)
• Embed an HTML file on a product
• How the configurator is built (questions, answers and rules)
• Export the configurator data (Diagnostics)
• Update the acoustic calculator

A note on configurator building

Creating configurator questions, per-product option prices, and the rules that show or hide options is a specialist job that goes beyond everyday admin. The orientation article explains the building blocks so you can read and check what's there, and marks which small changes are safe to make yourself. For anything beyond those, talk to your Beta-Calco contact.

Screens and labels can differ slightly between environments — if a label doesn't match what you see, check with your Beta-Calco contact.

For developers → docs/README.md.