Document Display & Attribute Formatting
Your quotes, acknowledgements, invoices, packing slips and build sheets are the paperwork your customers and shop floor actually read — so how attributes print on them matters. Document Display gives you two connected controls: combine several attribute choices into one clean line, and style how each attribute's text looks on printed documents.
Availability: Commerce and up (paid plans). Both controls are reached from Product → Setup, from the Document Display button in the Product Attributes header (and the styling controls inside the attribute editor).
Why it exists
By default, every attribute prints on its own line. That's fine for a few, but a cabinet door with five material and construction choices turns into a cluttered stack. Document Display lets you fold related attributes into a tidy line like:
OAK/MDF - 3/4"
...and control exactly how it reads on each document.
Display Groups (combine attributes into one line)
A Display Group merges several attribute choices into a single formatted line on your documents. You pick which attribute slots go in, in what order, and what text separates them.
Building a group
- Go to Product → Setup, open the Product Attributes header, and click Document Display.
- Add attribute slots in order — the group reads left to right as you arrange them.
- Type the separator text between attributes (a
/, a-, a space — whatever reads well). - Optionally pull a specific value from an attribute rather than its name.
The same attribute slot can even be added more than once if you need to print two of its values.
Example: Combine a Wood attribute (Oak), a Core attribute (MDF) and a Thickness attribute (3/4″) with / and - separators to print OAK/MDF - 3/4" as a single line.
Position on the page
Each group can sit in a different spot depending on the document. You set a position per document family:
| Position | Result |
|---|---|
| Auto | TimberCloud places it automatically |
| Left | Aligned to the left column |
| Right | Aligned to the right column |
| Full Width | Spans the whole line |
You can set the position separately for the Quote / Acknowledgement / Invoice documents, the Build Sheet, and the Packing Slip.
Per-document on/off
A group doesn't have to appear everywhere. Toggle it on or off for each document type independently:
| Document | Toggle |
|---|---|
| Quote | On / Off |
| Acknowledgement | On / Off |
| Invoice | On / Off |
| Packing Slip | On / Off |
| Build Sheet | On / Off |
For example, show the full material breakdown on the Build Sheet for your shop, but keep the customer-facing Invoice cleaner.
Per-attribute text styling
Beyond grouping, you can control how the text looks for any attribute — or for a whole display group — on printed and exported documents. This is the difference between a plain line and a bold, uppercase heading that a shop-floor worker can read across the room.
The default style
Each attribute (or group) gets one default style block that applies everywhere unless you override it:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Font Size | Use the document default, a preset size, or a custom point size |
| Value Weight | Auto, Bold, or Regular — how heavy the printed value is |
| Value Case | Auto, UPPERCASE, or As typed (e.g. "oak" → "OAK") |
| Label | Show the attribute's label (e.g. "Material: Oak"), bold the label, or hide the label and print the value alone |
A live preview shows how the line will read as you adjust it.
Per-document overrides
If one document needs a different look, add a per-document override. For instance, keep the default style on the Invoice but make the same attribute large and bold on the Build Sheet. Each document type (Quote, Acknowledgement, Invoice, Packing Slip, Build Sheet) can carry its own override.
Note: Only attributes you actually style change. Any attribute you leave untouched keeps TimberCloud's built-in default look, so you can style just the few that matter and ignore the rest.
How it fits together
- Display Groups decide what prints together and where on the page.
- Text styling decides how those attributes (or groups) look.
Use them together for clean, readable paperwork: group the material choices into one line, then style that line bold and uppercase on the Build Sheet.
Next Steps
- Attributes — The dropdown choices these controls format
- Configurator (Parts & Cut Lists) — Turn attributes into physical parts
- Build Sheet Builder — Design the shop-floor documents attributes print on
- Line Items — The fields that accompany attributes on documents