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The POM Library page — reached from the Admin & configuration sidebar group — is the workspace’s reusable catalog of points of measurement: the named points on a garment the team grades and fits to, such as Chest, Sleeve length, or Sweep, each with the tolerance the team works to and the order the team likes to see them in. Curating the library once means every per-order the workspace builds starts from the same palette of points — same names, same tolerances, same order — instead of being typed from scratch every time.

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What it is

A single page under Admin & configuration → POM Library with two regions:
  • A list of every point of measurement the workspace has on file, sortable by the team’s preferred order, with an “Inactive” badge on any point that has been retired.
  • An add / edit modal where you create a new point or revise an existing one.
A POM record carries four things: the point’s English name, an optional Chinese name, the tolerance the team works to, and the sort order that controls where it sits on the list. Names are entered manually — the page does not translate between languages, so the team types the Chinese name themselves when they want one.

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Why it exists

Grading and fitting work on a fixed vocabulary. Two stages graded against Chest and CHEST WIDTH are not graded against the same point; a workspace that lets every grading table type its own names is a workspace whose history cannot be read across styles, seasons, or factories. POM Library is the team’s agreed vocabulary. Once a point is in the library — with the name the team has settled on, the tolerance the team works to, and a sort order that matches how the team reads a grading sheet — every grading table the workspace builds afterwards picks from that catalog. The team grades the same way across every style, and a reader looking at two grading tables side by side sees the same point in the same place with the same tolerance.

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When it is used

  • At workspace start-up, to seed the library with the points the team always grades — chest, waist, hips, sleeve length, sleeve opening, body length, sweep, and so on — plus the tolerances the team has agreed on for each.
  • When a new point needs to be added because a style introduces a measurement the workspace has not graded before.
  • When the team’s tolerance for a point changes and the library copy should reflect the new tolerance going forward.
  • When the team retires a point that is no longer in active use — the point is deactivated so it stops appearing in new grading tables, but the points already on existing grading tables are preserved.
You reach the page from the sidebar under Admin & configuration → POM Library.

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Dependencies

There are no upstream master records POM Library depends on. The library is the upstream master itself.

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What depends on it

  • The per-order grading table reads from this library. When the team builds a grading table for a style on an order, the points on the table are lifted from the POM Library catalog — and any one-off point the team adds in the table itself stays local to that table (the affordance lives on the Grading grid, not here).
  • The Grading section of an MO’s — the workbook the factory works to — reads from the same per-order grading record. See the PMS Templates page for how the workbook is filled.
The library is the catalog. The actual per-style measurements live on the grading tables that draw from it, not on the records here.

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The POM record

Each POM record on the library carries:
  • POM Name — the point’s English name (for example, Chest, Sleeve length). Required. This is the name that appears on every grading table that picks the point.
  • POM Name (Chinese) — the point’s Chinese name, optional. Typed manually by the team; the platform does not translate from the English name. When the workspace runs a grading sheet in a Chinese locale, this is the label that shows.
  • Tolerance — the ± the team works to for the point, entered in inch fractions as a numerator over a denominator (for example, 1/4"). The list shows the fraction next to the point’s name so the team can read the tolerance at a glance.
  • Sort Order — an integer that controls where the point appears in the list (and, by extension, where it appears on grading tables drawn from the library). The team uses the sort order to keep the list in the same shape as a graded garment — top of the body to the hem — rather than alphabetical.
A record is either active or inactive. An active record is offered to new grading tables; an inactive record is not.

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Adding and editing a POM

To add a point:
  1. Open the add modal from the page.
  2. Type the POM Name (English). Optionally type the POM Name (Chinese).
  3. Enter the Tolerance as a numerator and denominator in inches — the resulting fraction is shown beside the input so you can double-check before saving.
  4. Set a Sort Order for the point.
  5. Save.
To edit an existing point, open the row’s edit pencil. The same modal opens, pre-filled. Editing a record updates the library copy; grading tables already built from this point keep the values they were built with — the library edit applies to new grading tables, not to ones already in flight.

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Reordering points

The list carries inline up / down arrows on each row. Pressing an arrow moves the row’s sort order one step and persists the change immediately. The order on the page is the order new grading tables read the catalog in, so the list is the team’s chance to put the points in the shape they want to read them in.

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Deactivating a POM

The deactivate action on a row is soft — it does not delete the record. A deactivated point:
  • Stops appearing in the picker when a new grading table is built.
  • Still appears on every grading table that has already picked it (those measurements are preserved as they are; deactivating the library copy does not strip them out).
  • Shows an “Inactive” badge in the library list, so the team sees the full history of points the workspace has graded against.
Reactivate the point — through the same row’s action — and it returns to the picker. There is no hard delete from this page. The library is the team’s audit of every point the workspace has ever graded; retirement is through deactivation, so the history is never broken.

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Business rules

  1. A POM record carries an English name, an optional Chinese name, a tolerance in inch fractions, and a sort order. Names are entered manually; the page does not translate between languages.
  2. Tolerances are in inch fractions. The library is the catalog; when a grading table picks a point, the tolerance carries with it.
  3. Sort order is the team’s reading order. The list — and the grading tables drawn from it — appear in sort-order sequence, not alphabetical.
  4. Deactivation is soft. A deactivated point stops appearing in new grading tables; existing grading tables keep the points they were already built with.
  5. There is no hard delete from this page. Retiring a point is through deactivation, so the team’s grading history is preserved.
  6. The library is the catalog, not the measurements. Actual per-style measurements live on the grading tables on the fitting record, not on the records here.

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Best practices

  • Seed the library deliberately, once. Settle on the team’s full list of points — and the tolerance for each — before the team starts grading styles, so the first round of grading tables already uses the right palette.
  • Keep tolerances consistent across the catalog. A tolerance that differs from the team’s house standard for a single point will travel onto every new grading table that picks it — set it thoughtfully.
  • Set the sort order to read like a graded garment. Top of body to hem, then sleeves, then trims, is a common shape. The list is the team’s chance to make every grading table readable.
  • Type the Chinese name in deliberately when a workspace runs bilingual sheets. The platform will not invent one — the field is optional but worth filling in if the factory reads the sheet in Chinese.
  • Deactivate, do not delete. A retired point still tells the story of what the workspace used to grade against; deactivation keeps the audit trail intact.
  • Use one-off points on the grading table only when a style truly needs a point the library does not yet hold. If the team starts reaching for one-off points often, that is a signal to widen the library instead.