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Bring your collection in from another app

Since 0.8.0.

Do this when your collection lives somewhere else today and you want it here without typing it in again. Open Get started (the empty Sets page, or Tools & Admin › Get started) and choose Choose where it is on step 3, Bring your collection in. Every way in shows a preview before anything is added, and an import can be undone. Load the catalogue first: an import finds every item in it.

While you follow a choice, the pages it opens show ‹ Back to Get started. Back there, In your collection counts the copies, loose entries and wishes that came in. It also says how many copies still have no condition or completeness, because an import leaves those for you to set. Each imported from … line opens Sets filtered to the copies that site brought in.

Rebrickable or Brickset account

Your sets and wishlist come over through Collection sync, with a preview row by row. You need the site's API key (the keys step of Get started) and your own account login on Collection sync. See Sync with Rebrickable and Brickset. Imported copies are tagged imported from Rebrickable or imported from Brickset.

Or export My Sets from Brickset as a CSV file and choose Choose a CSV file, which opens Add with File selected. With Owned (or Loose) Brick Work takes the sets marked owned, with their count; an owned count split into new and used becomes a row per condition. With Wishlist it takes the sets marked wanted. The set number is Brickset's number and variant, such as 8285-1, and your Brickset notes become the note. A file without the columns this needs is refused with their names. The CSV needs no Brickset key, and its copies get no imported from tag.

Brickset's minifigure export (the CSV of your minifigures) is read the same way: choose Minifigure and Loose in Add, then File. Brick Work takes the figures you own loose, with Brickset's loose count (QtyOwnedLoose): the figures in your sets come with the set copies, so they are not added twice. With Wishlist it takes the figures marked wanted, one each (Brickset keeps no wanted count for figures). The number is Brickset's minifigure number, which is BrickLink's (such as sw0001), and your Brickset notes become the note.

Download your wanted list or a store inventory from BrickLink as an XML file, then choose Choose an XML file. It opens Add with File selected. Brick Work reads the item type, number, colour, quantity and condition of each line, and for a wanted list also the maximum price, remarks and the wanted list it came from. The review asks, row by row, whether a line is owned, loose or a wish. BrickLink files some Rebrickable parts under one number: its 3001 also names the old mould 3556. Brick Work then takes the part with the same number and says so in the review. If none has the same number, the line names the parts it could be: add the one you mean by its Rebrickable number.

BrickTracker

Choose Import app.db and upload BrickTracker's app.db, any version. See Import from BrickTracker.

Another app's file

Many collection apps can export one of two formats that Brick Work reads. Check your app's export menu for one of them:

  • BrickLink XML: an inventory or wanted list, as above.
  • Rebrickable CSV: a set list or part list with the columns set_num, part_num or minifig_num, plus quantity and color_id.

Choose Choose a file, which opens Add with File selected. A file can be up to 2 MB, and one review shows up to 500 rows. Lines Brick Work cannot match are listed and left out. Copies added from a file get no imported from tag.

By hand

Add a set opens Add: search by number or name, paste a list of numbers, take a photo, or add from an order.

Step 1, Find and select, runs top to bottom: the four ways to find (Search, Paste, File, Photo), the field or file for the one you chose, then What you are adding and Where it goes (Owned, Loose or Wishlist), then the results, then the Review button. On a wide screen What and Where share one row; on a phone they stack.