Entering observations

Once you visit an item either via the Item List tree or the search function you will be presented with the item details on the right hand side or the DET window

Viewing a single Item
Viewing a single Item

This window contains 3 distinct parts:

If you want to hide all statistics from the screen you can deselect the menu Settings -> Enable NC mode in order to run the DET in Price Collector mode.

The Item attributes part is a list of all item characteristics. Properties are shown in bold font. All specify characteristics are shown as well.

Item Attributes
Item Attributes

Item statistics show numerical values for the specific item such as average price, maximum price e.t.c. These numbers update automatically as you enter or modify observations for the item.

Item statistics
Item statistics

The bottom part of the window is the part where you actually can make changes. It is subdivided into:

Entering observations
Entering observations

You can click on any component of this part in order to directly edit its value. Vat is expected as percentage number, that is 1-100.

To enter a new observation just fill any of the columns in the observations table. Once you move the focus out of the cell that was changed the DET will update the item statistics and also validate your data. Missing columns will be highlighted with yellow colours.

The DET also checks the numerical values for the specific columns. For example you cannot input a month number lower that 1 or higher than 12. The DET will notify you while you enter the value.

By default the table contains space for 10 observations. You can use the plus and minus buttons to add/remove additional columns for more observations.

The Clear button removes all observations from the table after asking from confirmation. The Finalize button marks this item as finished. See the finalization chapter for more details on finished items.

You can enter comments for the current item in the text fields at the bottom. Comments on the left will be transfered to the PPP database whereas comments on the right will appear only while you work in the DET.

Clicking the minus button when a row with data is selected will remove the observation it contains as well.
The Finalize Button and the item statistics are only shown if you run the DET in full mode.

See also:

Observation Filters
Item Statistics
Entering Collected Prices
Item Finalization