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Retail Items View

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What is the view/dialog used for?

View all of the retail items available.
Search for groups, departments and individual items using the search filter.
Scroll the item pages with the forward/back buttons.
Import multiple images to match items through the image import dialog.
Note: you can choose which column the items are ordered by, by clicking on the column header, it will automatically choose an upwards pointing arrow that orders 0-10 and A-Z, reverse the order by clicking again and making sure that the green arrow points downwards.

In version 2016 and later

The items view displays all sorts of items:

retail items
variant headers
variant items

In this version multiple items can be selected and some of their settings can be edited all at once. This is called bulk editing.

Search filtering

Retail items can be searched in a filtered search. One filtering line is added for each type of filter. You can even save your preferred filtering settings and they will be available when you open the Retail item view.

Fields & buttons	Description
Description Variant Retail group Retail department Tax group vendor Bar code Special group Attribute	Select a filter type for each search filter line. Check the box to use the search criteria.
Begins with Contains	Begins with: Selecting this option allows you to search for the beginning of the customer description, ID or Account number. (This is the default setting) Contains: Selecting this option allows you to search for the number or letters within the customer description, ID or Account number. This field is only visible for types that allow free text search. That is description, variant and bar code.
Search field	Enter the search criteria. For description and bar code you can enter a free text but for all the other types you select one group, vendor or such.
	If there are more than one line press this button to delete a search criteria. You can also unselect the checkbox to exclude a criteria from the search.
	Press this button to add search criteria and narrow the filter.
	The following actions are available from a drop down menu when this button is pressed. Save as default layout: The search lines you have selected will be saved to the view and opened when this view is opened. Load default layout: If you have edited the search settings since you last opened the Retail items view select this option to reload the saved layout. Reset: Select this option to reset the layout to be as displayed in image above. Toggle button locations: Select this option to set the and buttons in front of the filter type.
Button: Search	Press this button or hit enter button on keyboard to search for an item with the filters set.

List of items

Fields & buttons	Description
ID	Displays the item ID.
Description	Displays the item description.
Variant	This field is only visible if variant items exist in the item list. If there are variant items in the list this column will display their variant description that is the dimension attributes of the variant item.
Retail group	Displays the item retail group.
Retail department	Displays the retail department.
Tax group	Displays the tax group.
Price	Displays the item price including tax, if any.
Back	Select this button to scroll back through the list of retail items. This button is only enabled if there exist more than 500 items.
Next	Select this button to scroll forwards through the list of retail items. This button is only enabled if there exist more than 500 items.
Button: Export	Select one of the following options: List to Excel template... - Export all items to an Excel document where the item settings can be modified before importing again. See Excel import for more details. Selected items to Excel template... - Export only selected items to an Excel document where the item settings can be modified before importing again. Press Ctrl to select more than one item or Shift to select all items between two items that you click. See Excel import for more details. List to Excel replenishment template... - Export all items to an Excel document where the items replenishment settings can be modified before importing again. See Item view - Replenishment tab for more information on these settings. Selected items to Excel replenishment template... - Export only selected items to an Excel document where the items replenishment settings can be modified before importing again. Press Ctrl to select more than one item or Shift to select all items between two items that you click. See Item view - Replenishment tab for more information on these settings. List to Excel stock counting template... - Export all items to an Excel document where the item stock counting settings can be modified before importing again. See Excel import for more details. For version 2016: The export is not available in version 2016 but will be added again to a future version.
Button: Import	Select one of the following options: Images - Select this option to import multiple images at once to items. This opens the Import item images dialog. From Excel document... - Browse to the Excel document that you want to import. The Excel document has to be one of the templates that the Site Manager has created. For version 2016: Item import from Excel is not available in version 2016 but will be added again to a future version.
Edit	Highlight an item on the list and select this button to edit it. This opens the item’s Retail item ID view.
Add	Select this button to add a new item. This opens the New item dialog.
Delete	Highlight an item on the list and select this button to delete it. For version 2015.1 or older: If the item belongs to any transaction or report, the system won't allow it to be deleted. It will be offered to block the item instead. For version 2016: All items can be deleted as nothing is actually deleted from the data, items are only marked as deleted and can be undeleted. To undelete an item select the attribute search filter and select deleted. Then all deleted items will be displayed in the search results.

Actions

Label printing - Opens the Label printing dialog from where price or shelf labels can be printed. Before printing labels printing templates have to be created in the Store setup > Forms and labels > Item label templates.
Import images - Select this link to import multiple images at once to items. This opens the Import item images dialog.
Create variation combinations - Only in version 2015.1 or older. This function will listen to the variation groups set on the item. (see Variation combinations tab on Retail Item View) When clicking on this link, all possible variation combinations will be created for the list of items being displayed in the Retail items list. To create variation combinations for a single item or a group of items, use the searching filtering. The variation combinations will always apply to the items being displayed in the list. If there is already a list of combinations on the item, it will be deleted and recreated according to the variation groups set on the item.

Last updated:	17th March 2015
Version:	LS One 2015

Retail Items View

What is the view/dialog used for?

In version 2016 and later

Actions

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