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Check a set's parts

Since 0.5.0.

Set Inspector (was Check Set Parts) is the Workbench workflow described here.

Go through one copy of a set part by part and record what is missing. Do this when you sort out a used or half-built set. The copy needs its part list in your catalogue first.

Run the check

  1. Open Workbench → Set Inspector. The list shows copies In progress, Not checked and Checked; it opens on Not checked. Change that under the filter, or sort by Largest first, Number or Name.
  2. Choose a copy.
  3. Under Order, pick Inventory order, By colour or Largest first. Then select Start.
  4. For each part, set the number you found with − and +, then select Found N (N is your count) to save it. The difference is recorded as missing.
  5. Missing records the whole line as missing.
  6. Skip for later leaves the line unanswered.
  7. Back and Undo step back or reverse the last answer.
  8. Minifigures come after the required parts, as a Figure review. Count the whole figure like a part.
  9. If the set has spare parts, you are asked Include spare parts? Select No, skip them or Yes, check them. Spares are never counted as missing.
  10. The Missing so far list shows every gap, the newest on top. If you find a piece later in the pile, select Found 1 next to it and the count drops by one; the entry stays where it is in the list.
  11. When the last part is answered, the end of the check has three steps, shown at the top: 1 Skipped, 2 Missing, 3 Save.
  12. Skipped lists the parts you skipped, each with Check. Select Check the N skipped parts to walk them in the usual part view, or Leave them unchecked to go on. The Missing so far list is shown dimmed below as the next step. With nothing skipped, the screen starts at step 2.
  13. Missing is the Missing so far list. Select Done · N still missing to continue.
  14. Save is Finish. Tick Set is checked if you have also inspected the build and the figures, then select Done.

Every answer saves as you go. You can close the page and come back later: the copy shows under In progress and its start screen offers Resume check. Start over starts a new pass.

Checks that were in progress before the move to the 4.0 data model (Brick Work 4.0) are not carried over: the copy shows as Not checked and you start again. The counts you recorded stay. Switching a copy to another part list keeps a check in progress and its answers for every line the two lists share.

Keyboard: F found all, M missing, 1 to 9 count, S skip, Z undo, ← back, → or Enter next.

Check only the missing parts

When a copy already has missing parts, Check missing only on the set's page (beside Check parts) starts a run over just those parts. Use it after a visit to the pile, or when you have found parts since the last check. The heading reads Missing part 1 of N with a Missing only tag, the progress line ends with · missing parts only, and each part shows Missing since the last check: X of Y. Buttons, keys and the end of the check are as above. The other parts keep their answers from the earlier check. Checking the skipped parts inside a missing-only run keeps it a missing-only run. Reloading the page resumes whatever check is running. Starting a missing-only run replaces a check that is in progress; Undo brings the earlier check back.

Found 1 on the set's page

Every missing part card on a copy's page has Found 1. It lowers that part's missing count by one, the same as Found 1 in Set Inspector, and the loose stock is not touched. An Undo appears at the top of the page. On a card that has Take N (loose stock covers the gap) Found 1 is a text link under Take, so Take stays the main action; otherwise it is an outline button. See also Find sets your loose stock can finish.

What the check changes

  • Each answer sets that line's missing count on the copy. Those counts are what Part Runner, Matchmaker and the exports work from.
  • Set is checked can only be ticked once no part or figure is left skipped or unanswered.
  • With Set is checked ticked and nothing missing, the copy's completeness becomes Complete. With gaps it stays Incomplete. If you set the copy's completeness by hand, the check leaves it as it is.

Check a minifigure's own parts

Since 0.5.0.

On a figure's step, Check figure parts opens a check of that figure's own parts, if the catalogue lists them. Parts missing from a figure count on the figure, not on the set, so they do not change the set's missing count or completeness. Done takes you back to the set's figures.

Export the gaps

Since 0.5.0.

  1. Open Planning → Complete sets. It lists your copies that have recorded gaps.
  2. Tick the copies you want.
  3. Choose one:
  4. Export N · BrickLink XML downloads missing-parts.xml for a BrickLink Wanted List: every missing or damaged part and every missing figure of the ticked copies, by BrickLink number and colour, with the condition of the copy. Something Brick Work cannot name for BrickLink, because it has no BrickLink number or its colour has none, is left out of the file and named in the message; the rest still exports. With Use loose stock on in the repair settings, the quantities are what you still have to buy (Decide which set to repair first).
  5. Print missing parts of N opens a printable list. Download CSV on that page saves the same list as a CSV file (item type, number, name, colour, condition, quantity and a note for items not matched yet). Items not matched yet stay on this list, marked.

The REST API offers the same missing-parts lists as XML, CSV and JSON.

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