Containers

Containers are fixtures that attach to Racks, Shelves, Bars, or Surfaces and hold items, typically Product Positions, though they may also hold Sub-Racks.

A Container can be created via Insert > Container (via context or header menu). Pressing "W" creates a Container at the cursor location.

Containers on Surfaces

Drag a Container onto a Surface to divide it into pans, bins or wells: an olive or wing bar, an ice cream freezer case with dividers, a produce table. On a Surface in Topdown view, a Container is drawn from above as its footprint (Width (Base) across, Depth front to back), walled on all four sides, and can be placed anywhere on the Surface, following the Surface's grid if it has one. Products dropped in it are placed front to back as on the Surface itself, and stay inside its walls.

In Front View the same Containers stand on the Surface's top edge, drawn as usual, and keep their place front to back when the view is switched back. Combined with the Resize Layout (below), a Container can represent a whole pan of loose product from a single item.

Properties

A Container's properties can be edited by double-clicking it, or via Right Click > Properties.

Container properties dialog

Name and Description

Optional name / description for this Container. Name is often useful for identifying where products go in Reports. These properties are how an item's Fixture and FixtureDescription will be reported if it is parented to this Container.

SKU

An optional SKU / part number for this Container, useful when the fixtures in a planogram themselves need to be ordered. An item parented to this Container reports this value as its FixtureSKU.

Layout

As with most fixtures, Containers support Layouts for automatic content alignment: None, Left, Right, Even, Center, Segmented, and a Container-specific Resize layout that will resize Positions uniformly to fit inside. See the Fixture Layouts page for a full description of each.

For some layouts, Spacing defines the horizontal space left between each item when its content is laid out. For Segmented layouts, Segments defines how many equal divisions the Container is broken into.

Container with Resize Layout example

In a Resize Container each Position is set to a single facing and stretched to fill its cell, so by default its image is stretched too. With Tile Products in Resize Containers checked (File > Settings), the image is instead repeated at the product's real catalog size to fill the cell, so one item reads as a container full of it. A single olive in a pan on an olive bar is drawn as a pan of olives, and in 3D the cell is filled with real-size units.

Tiling only changes how the product is drawn, not its facings or quantities. Seen from above (a Container on a Surface in Topdown view) the product's top image is tiled, or its front image if it has no top image. It works best with a catalog item that represents one unit, such as a "single unit" merch style.

An olive bar: eight Resize Containers on a Topdown Surface, each holding one olive, tiled

Dimensions

Container Widths (Left, Right, and Base), Heights (Back and Base), and Depth, in inches or centimeters. You may enter values like 4' or 10m and GoPlanogram will convert automatically.

Y Offset

Distance from the Container's top edge used as the vertical snap point when parenting to another fixture (i.e. Bars or Slatwall Racks). Default value of 0 means the snap point is the container’s top edge.

Left container has Y Offset = 0. Right container has Y Offset = 2, so it snaps to the Slatwall 2" from its top edge

Colors

Container fill colors -- Edges for the sides and base, and Back for the back panel.

Show Back

Whether the Container's back panel is drawn. Uncheck it for open-backed fixtures, such as a bin that sits against a Rack you still want to see.

Selectable and Movable

Whether this Container can be selected and moved. Useful for locking fixtures in place while arranging products.

Fence Properties

Both Shelves and Containers may have a Fence if the Has Fence checkbox is checked.

This fence acts as a guard that appears in front of items. Its style, color, opacity, and height can be edited.

Editing Multiple Containers

If multiple Containers are selected, you can edit their Properties through the same dialog.

Use the Propagate checkbox buttons to declare a change to a property should be applied to all selected Containers.

The Propagate checkbox is checked for Fill, but not Width (Base). Both Containers have their fill changed -- only Container 1 has its base Width changed