Overview
Think of EEganizer as a book shelf. You grab a book or a few books and place them on a shelf in a specific category and sub-category. Designs Pods are the books. When you go to upload to EEganizer, you upload a sub-category worth of designs. For example, let's upload a design called American Flag with many files and sub-folders associated with that design. We go to Step 1 and select the main folder named American Flag on our computer containing all the files and sub-folders. Next, Step 2 is simply showing all the files and sub-folders within that design pod that will be uploaded. Step 3 let's us choose the 'shelf' by selecting many tags to associate with that design making it extremely easy to locate in our library.
There are four steps to uploading single or multiple designs.
When uploading multiple files or folders, you will have three options during Step 1: File Upload. The options are:
Let's get started!
To Upload multiple designs, first select the menu icon in the top right corner.
Then select Upload.
Step 1 - File Upload
Description: During this step, you will locate files on your computer to then upload to EEganizer.
There are two options to select. Check the circle next to Folder.
What are Files?
- A single file OR zip file can be uploaded when selecting the Files option. To upload using the Files option, please see Uploading single designs.
- IMPORTANT: Zip files are single files. Zip files are one or more files combined into a single file for size reduction.
What are Folders?
- This option allows you to select a folder containing multiple single files, folders of designs, and multiple zip files. Since there are many ways someone can store their files on their local computer, EEganizer provides multiple tools to make it simple and easy when uploading.
Let's explore the different upload options within EEganizer. There are three Pod Types you can choose when uploading with the Folder option.
- Single Design Pod
- Multiple Design Pods based on 1st Level Subfolders
First, the single design pod. An example is a single design that is stored on your computer in a folder with all the associated files for that design including a pdf for the stitch color sequence. See below.
Since you would want to store all the associated design files within one design pod, Single Design Pod would be the preferred pod type. You would select Folder and Single Design Pod in the drop down.
Next, click the browse button where you will click on the folder you wish to upload. Note: If you double click the folder in the browse window, it will open the folder and you will not see the individual files but may see sub-folders if present. This is by design and your files will still be uploaded.
After clicking the browse button, you see the below warning image showing the number of files you intend to upload. IMPORTANT: EEganizer can safely handle uploading 12,000 files and/or 2GB of data per upload.
Lastly, click the upload button to proceed to Step 2.
Second, the Multiple Design Pods based on 1st Level Subfolders. An example is a folder containing many design folders that are stored on your computer. In each design folder, there are individual files. Each of these design folders will become a design pod. The 1st level subfolders option simply means converting everything within the uploaded main folder to a design pod. See below. The Christmas folder is the uploaded main folder so the sub-folders (JKD Christmas Designs X3) will become design pods.
This option can be used to bulk upload previously sorted designs from your computer or multiple designs within the same category and subcategory after you purchase. All individual files within the uploaded main file will be grouped into one design pod but can be edited during Step 2.
If you want to upload multiple designs at the first subfolder layer, you would select Folder and Multiple Design Pods based on 1st Level Subfolders in the drop down.
Next, click the browse button where you will click on the folder you wish to upload. Note: If you double click the folder in the browse window, it will open the folder and you will not see individual files if present but will see sub-folders. This is by design and your files will still be uploaded.
After clicking the browse button, you see the below warning image showing the number of files you intend to upload. IMPORTANT: EEganizer can safely handle uploading 12,000 files and/or 2GB of data per upload.
Lastly, click the upload button to proceed to Step 2.
Step 2 - Create Design Pods
Description: During this step, you will be able to see all the folders and files you uploaded and modify design pods to your preference.
What is a Design Pod?
- EEganizer utilizes design pods to:
- store all folders and files for a particular design,
- catalog into multiple product types, categories, sub-categories and designer,
- capture user specific notes on that particular design,
- generate a single thumbnail to represent that design.
- Below are two images showing the design pod thumbnail in the library and the design pod details after you click on the thumbnail. Click to learn more.
The Design Pod Editor allows you to review the folders and files uploaded, remove any design pods from being uploaded and reconstruct design pods by removing or adding folders and files. See below. The left side shows the folders that were uploaded. In the middle is the view of folders where the individual files will be shown. The right side will show the selected files that you want to group into a design pod. Click to learn more about the design pod editor.
Below the Design Pod Editor, each design pod being uploaded will be viewable including individual files. See below.
Next, click Continue.
Step 3 - Assign Tags to Design Pods
Description: During this step, you will select product type, designer, categories, sub-categories, and specific notes.
Tag Definitions:
- Product Type - By default, the following product types have been created: Applique, Embroidery, Fonts, Printable, and SVG. These can be modified or deactivated plus new product types created. Click to learn more.
- Designer - The person or company that designed the design.
- Categories - Main categories to sort and organize your designs.
- Sub-Categories - Categories one layer below the main categories for more flexibility.
- Overall, there are three layers to house all of your designs: Product Types > Categories > Sub-Categories. A parallel layer to also sort your designs is by Designer.
To add a Product Type(s) tag, click the window for a drop down of default product types and select your preference. Next, click the plus button to confirm. Click here to learn about adding new and editing product types. 
To add a Designer(s) tag, click the window and type the designer name. Next, click the plus button to confirm. Click here to learn about adding new and editing designers.
To select Categories and Sub-Categories tags, click on all boxes next to your preference. There are no limits on how many you can select and will not go against your storage allotment for multiple selections.
Lastly, you can add user specific notes for this particular design being uploaded. These notes will be included with the design pod titles for when you choose to utilize the search window in your library.
Click on the Apply Tags button once all tags are confirmed.
Step 4 - Review Design Pods
Description: During this step, you will be able to review all tags previously selected and choose a specific file for the library thumbnail.
First, you will see all tags selected in Step 3 in the top left.
Second, you will see the files that was uploaded and a green check box. The green checkbox means that this is a file type that can be converted to a thumbnail image for your library. When uploading multiple files, you will be able to choose which file is converted.
Finally, click the Save button to complete the upload. You will be redirected to your library where you will see a thumbnail being generated for that design pod.