0.37.0
A sheet with less on it
The import sheet now asks for five things instead of ten, picks tracking and unit from a list, and says what belongs in each column as you click into it.
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Improved The import sheet now has five columns instead of ten, and a part number you can leave to the app by writing auto.
The sheet you fill in to add products asked for ten things about every one of them, and eight of those were optional. Forty rows of that is a lot of empty cells to read past, and a lot of columns to line up wrongly. It now asks for five: a part number, a name, a description, whether it is counted in bulk or one by one, and what it is counted in. Everything else a product can carry — how long it keeps, its barcode, its suppliers, its categories, whether it is offered — is set on the product itself once it exists, where the lists know what you actually have and you are choosing rather than spelling. Imported products arrive ready to use. The part number column has a word of its own now: write auto and one is made for you, which is what an empty cell has always meant but could never say. On the review screen it sits in the box as a reminder, and the rows there are easier to tell apart — every other one is shaded, and the ones you have ticked to add carry a mark down their left edge.
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Improved The downloaded import sheet now has a dropdown for tracking and unit, and a tooltip on every column.
The sheet you fill in to add products used to leave you guessing at two of its columns: you had to know that tracking is written quantity or serial, and that a unit is written kg rather than kilos. Both are now a dropdown you pick from, offering exactly what the app accepts. Click into any cell and a small note appears saying what belongs there, the same sentence the import page prints beside the column. The Part ID note is the one worth reading: write auto there, or leave it empty, and a part number is generated for you in the numbering this warehouse uses — the least guessable thing about the whole sheet. None of it changes what will be accepted — a sheet can still arrive with anything in any cell, and you still see every row and every problem before a single product is added.