TrainCat Help - Inventory Tutorial

TrainCat - Tutorial Lesson 3
Adding A New Inventory Item from Known Information

Once TrainCat initializes, the program opens to the main screen where Your Inventory is entered, viewed and maintained by the master button group on the screen bottom.

In the upper left corner of the screen, drop-down menus provide access to the other modules of TrainCat. Directly below the menu are Filters to make viewing the items in your Inventory easier.

Also notice the Inventory and Master List count next to the logo You can see the number of items in your system. Please Note: the Inventory count does NOT take the quantity of an item into the counting process. It is only the number of unique Stock Items within the Inventory.

Let's Add a new Item

Click once on the Add Button. Notice the changes to the button group. Once you begin Adding a new item or Editing an existing item, the user can only Save or Revert (Cancel) the process.

Don't worry, what we enter in this Tutorial Step will be deleted in a later lesson within Tutorial. If the user had setup the defaults in lesson #2, certain fields may already be populated and can be skipped if changes are not required. For Manufacturer, choose Micro Trains and press the Tab key to go to the Item Number field. Here, enter 47060 and press the Tab key. Since there are multiple Road Numbers associated with this Stock Number, a window will be displayed with all the Items shown for you to correctly choose the specific Item. For our tutorial, click anywhere on the row that contains 18955 as the Road Number. You may have to use the scroll bar on the right hand side of the window to get to the desired Item. Click on the Accept button.

Notice how TrainCat has searched the Master List for the specific Item and auto-populated the information for you. You will now press the Tab key multiple times until the cursor reaches the Seller field. You can also just click the Seller field with your mouse. This field is where you save who you bought the item from. For the tutorial, enter TexNrails and press the Tab key. Now enter the date you bought the item. For the tutorial, enter 12/01/2001 and press the Tab key. Now select the condition the item is. For the tutorial, select Mint and press the Tab key. Now enter the quantity you own of the item. For the tutorial, enter 1 and press the Tab key. Now enter the price you actually paid for the item. For the tutorial, enter 49.00 and press the Tab key twice. Now enter the location you store the item in. For the tutorial, enter Office. Finally, Click on Save.

You now have an Inventory. Go ahead and enter four more items on you own. Once you have done this, please continue with the Tutorial Step #4, Printing Reports.