All of the products in Stardraw applications now have at least one link, to the manufacturer's homepage, while other product ranges within Stardraw - BSS for example - already have links to dynamic pages on the manufacturer’s website that use a script to give users instant and specific access to all available online product data through a single mouse click. Similarly, many ranges are now linked to the InfoCOMM IQ database - an online source of standardized technical data.
Only last month Stardraw announced Online Libraries that enable users to retrieve symbols directly from a web database as and when they are required. This new functionality means that symbol attributes can themselves derive data from any provider, any manufacturer, any data source. Furthermore, it is planned that manufacturers should themselves be enabled to add value to their symbols by adding their own URL links directly.
According to Stardraw marketing director Rob Robinson: "The addition of URL linkage within attributes is a far more significant development than it might appear at first glance. In fact, it is a scalable solution to the problem of delivering real-time product information globally. We are getting ready to open the door to a true web-service, one that all manufacturers who are represented within Stardraw applications can contribute to, and through which they can add value to their existing online services."
In addition to these developments, Stardraw’s complete range of ‘shrink-wrapped’ products, comprising Stardraw Audio, AV, Lighting 2D and the recently launched Stardraw Radio, is now available in Spanish.
(Lee Baldock)
