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What's an item?

Item is the data itself, it's the real stuff you're interested in. With the template and sheet organized the data, you now can manage items in your sheet.

How to add item to sheet?

To add items to sheet, you first need to choose that sheet as Working sheet. A working sheet represents the sheet you are working on at that moment. You can work on different sheets by switching between sheets back and forth, but at any given time, you can only work on one sheet, even across different mobile devices.

Follow the steps below to add items to sheet.

1. Tap the Working Sheet tab:

1. Click the Working Sheet page from the leftbar menu:

2. From the drop-down list, choose the sheet you'd like to work on. If there is no sheets available, you can create one. Or, check sheet doc for more details.

Once the working sheet is chosen, there are two ways to add item.

- Tap the big circle Icon in the middle of the bottom bar. This is the most direct and simple way to start scanning. Even if you haven't selected a working sheet yet, clicking this scan button will prompt you to select a working sheet, so it is very useful. Try it.

- Tap the '+ New Item' button, it will pop up the Add New Item modal. If the sheet is based on Template, then these fields are from the template, if you need to modify these fields, go to the Templates tab, choose the template and modify its fields, then back to working sheet here. To learn how to manage template and its fields. check template and field doc.

If the sheet is non template based. Then, you would be able to edit the fields directly here. To learn more about the field, check field doc.

You may notice the two icons:

If you toggled on the 'Is Barcode?' flag when you adding the field in template or sheet, this icon would appear in the input box. Tap this barcode icon, it will launch the barcode scanner, so you don't need to type in the barcode manually which is error-prone. Our barcode scanning function is very powerful.

For textarea field, since the text will be long, and it will be troublesome and time-consuming to input. Considering this point, we provide the function of image to text. Depending on the quality of the image and the scanning angle, the extracted text may not be accurate, so we provide a secondary editing function, it will popup a modal for you to edit the captured text from image:

Another feature worth to be highlighted, if your template(template based sheet) or sheet(non template based sheet) has formula field. Let's say Amount field like below example:

Amount = Quantity * Price. So once you provided the value for Quantity and Price, the Amount value will be calculated automatically, you don't have to hold a calculator anymore.

Provide the data for all fields. Especially the required field. Tap the Save button to save this item to sheet. The new added item would appear on top of the working sheet page.

Click '+ New Item' button, the add item modal slides in from the right side of screen:

If the sheet is based on Template, then these fields are from the template, if you need to modify these fields, go to the Templates page, choose the template and modify its fields, then back to working sheet here. To learn how to manage template and its fields. check template and field doc.

If the sheet is non template based. Then, you would be able to edit the fields directly here. To learn more about the field, check field doc.

If your template(template based sheet) or sheet(non template based sheet) has formula field. Let's say Amount field:

Amount = Quantity * Price. So once you provided the value for Quantity and Price, the Amount value will be calculated automatically, you don't have to hold a calculator anymore.

Provide the data for all fields. Especially the required field. Click the Save button to save this item to sheet. The new added item would appear on top of the working sheet page.

Manage items

Review items

There are two ways to review the items you ever added to sheets.

• Tap the Sheets tab, on the Sheets page. Tapping the vertical ellipsis icon on the sheet, from the menu:

tap 'View Items', the app will redirect to the Sheet Items view.

The items are grouped by Date, you can tap the ^ icon to expand/collpase the items.

Since a sheet may contains many fields, the Sheet Items view only display the first two field values. You can view the full details by tapping the vertical ellipsis menu, choose the first option: View Details. It will pop up a modal, show the full list of the item.

You can also search items, either typing the keyword(3 chars at least), and tap the RETURN keystroke on your mobile keyboard. Or if you are going to search by a barcode, like UPC, ISBN. You can tap the barcode icon directly to scan the barcode.

• You can also review the items from the Working Sheet, either the sheet you are working on or switch to the sheet.

• Click the Sheets from the leftbar menu, on the Sheets page. click the vertical ellipsis icon on the sheet, from the menu:

Click 'View Items', the sheet items page display.

You can also search items, either typing the keyword(3 chars at least). Or if you are going to search by a barcode, like UPC, ISBN. You can tap the barcode icon directly to scan the barcode.

• You can also review the items from the Working Sheet, either the sheet you are working on or switch to the sheet.

Item Change History

For each item's change history, you can track them. Click the eye icon on each item. The highlight background indicates which item you are viewing its change history.

The change history tells When did the value change from what to what.

For each item's change history, you can track them. Tap the 'Change History' from the menu.

The change history tells When did the value change from what to what.

Edit items

From the vertical ellipsis menu, choose Edit, it will pop up the Edit Item view:

Once finished, tap 'Save Changes' button at the bottom of view. (Swipe the screen to the bottom if there are many fields to see the 'Save Changes' button)

Click the pencil icon on each item. The edit modal will slide in from the right side.

After changed the value, click the Save Changes button.

Btw, if your sheet is non-template based, like this screenshot example, there would have a vertical ellipsis on the right side of each field in the edit modal,

You can edit the field, move the position and delete the field. Note: delete a field will remove the added data for that field in all items in the sheet.

Delete items

Click the trash icon on each item. The delete warning modal pops up:

The highlight background indicates which item you're going to delete.

From the vertical ellipsis menu, choose Delete, it will pop up the delete confirmation, with you agreed, the item will be deleted from sheet.