Metro Asset Center (MAC) is a high-end solution for managing company digital assets including images, videos, graphics as well as documents, e.g. campaign guides. The software enables uploading, tagging, modifying, searching, sharing, distributing and downloading assets.


In order to set up MAC images in Spaceman, kindly follow the steps below.


Please bear in mind that in order to keep using MAC images, all product IDs in Spaceman should be changed from SUBSYS to MGB (Product ID).


  • Open Spaceman Professional



  • Click on "File" --> "Options"



  • Click on "General"
  • Select the checkbox "Use UNC for Search Paths"
  • Click on "OK"



  • Go back to "File" --> "Options"



  • The following settings should be applied in case you wish to use S:Drive images (not MAC)



  • S:Drive images (not MAC) for Germany:



For setting up MAC images


  • Under "Find Images Using", select "Product_ID"
  • Select "Remove Leading Zeroes"
  • Under "Minimum Field Length", enter 7
  • Click on "Add", to add a new image path
  • Make sure to uncheck the fields  "Cache Product Image Lookup"





  • Click on "OK"



  • You are now able to use MAC images in Spaceman, by clicking on "Live Images"


Please note


During publication to Spaceman, the planogram images are converted in order to normalize the files. To do this, the master (source) files from the MAC are downloaded, resized and published to Spaceman.


Important information

New file naming rules in MAC:
{Country}_{AssetType}_{MGB}{variant}{bundle}_{sequence number} (e.g. UA_POG_393390001001_01.jpg)


Indexes for facings in MAC:
'01' = 'Front'
'02' = 'Left'
'03' = 'Top'
'07' = 'Back'
'08' = 'Right'
'09' = 'Bottom'


'21' = 'Front Tray'
'22' = 'Left Tray'
'23' = 'Top Tray'
'27' = 'Back Tray'
'28' = 'Right Tray'
'29' = 'Bottom Tray'


Attention


  • During the migration phase, the product IDs in Spaceman were changed from SUBSYS to MGB.
    • Examples:
    • Spaceman 313737.1 was renamed to UA_POG_393390001001_01.jpg
    • Spaceman 295898.3 was renamed to UA_POG_360744001001_03.jpg
    • Spaceman 313738.8 was renamed to UA_POG_393391001001_08.jpg
    • Spaceman 5565230001001t.9 renamed to RU_POG_5565230001001_29.jpg
  • During the migration, all SUBSYS numbers were checked in MMS. In case the images placed in the folder "1All_Images" (S:Drive - country folder) matched with a SUBSYS number, these were renamed and migrated to MAC images.
  • In case, after the migration, not all images could be migrated due to mismatches between MMS and the file names, the changes in the Product ID from SUBSYS to MGB should be done manually in MAC or via API.