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Pick parts for several sets

Since 0.5.0.

Part Runner (was Part Picker) is the Workbench workflow described here.

Collect the missing parts of several sets in one pass through your drawers. Part Runner works from the missing counts that Set Inspector records, so check the sets first.

Pick the parts

  1. Open Workbench → Part Runner. Under Pick for which sets? you see every copy with recorded missing parts and how many it is missing.
  2. Keep All incomplete sets, or select Choose sets and tick the copies you want. The list shows 15 sets a page; ticks on other pages stay.
  3. Select Continue · N sets.
  4. Under In what order do you pick?, switch the sort keys on or off and drag them into order: Category, Colour, Size, Set, Storage. The line under the keys shows the order you get. Select Start picking.
  5. Part Runner shows one part at a time: its picture, colour and number, Pick N, and which copies need how many.
  6. When you have the part in hand, select Found it and choose where it goes:
  7. Add to set lowers the missing count of the copies that need it. Set how many go to each copy with − and +.
  8. Add to loose parts adds them to your loose stock instead. Enter the Found count.
  9. Add to pick list only records the find in Recent saves without changing any count.
  10. Select Confirm. Part Runner moves to the next part.
  11. Use Skip for later for a part you cannot find now; its missing count stays as it is. Back returns to the previous part.
  12. Select Stop when you are done.

Keyboard: F or Enter opens Found it, 1, 2, 3 choose the destination, M leaves the part missing, S skips, Z undoes, ← and → move between parts.

Every save appears under Recent saves, each with its own Undo.

The pick order

  • Parts are grouped by part and colour, so a part that three sets need appears once, with the total to pick.
  • The keys sort in the order you set. Storage sorts by the named storage that holds usable loose stock of that part. Category uses the part category from your catalogue.
  • A key with nothing to sort by is switched off and says why: "No category is recorded for these parts", "No usable loose parts have a recorded location" or "No part sizes are recorded".
  • Parts with no value for a key come after the ones that have one.
  • On a tie, a part that finishes more checked copies comes first.

Part Runner lists every missing part of the chosen copies, whether or not you have it in loose stock. Use the Storage key to see which drawer to try. Under Details, the filters can narrow the list by colour or set, and the sort can switch to Name, Number, Missing count or Colour.

Since 0.5.0.

  1. While picking, select Print list.
  2. The print view lists the parts in your pick order with a rank number, the sets that need each part and their storage. Hide pictures gives a shorter printout.
  3. Select Print, or Download CSV for a file with rank, item type, item number, name, colour, colour id, quantity, sets and storage.

Back returns you to Part Runner.

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