There are 5 ways to add products to a Material List. Cloning lists is the easiest way to get consistency across different projects, especially if you’ve curated a Master List (or Lists) for that purpose. When creating a new List, you can copy (“clone”) an entire Master List in 2 clicks! You can also add / copy select products from other lists, from publicly “crowdsourced” lists or from our Infinite Catalog.
- CLICK “ADD PRODUCTS” BUTTON: Click the button to the right of the search bar. This will reveal a drop-down menu of options which are described below. Then…
- CHOOSE THE OPTION YOU WANT: Click on the option that you want from the drop-down menu.
Each of the options below are shown in more detail inn the sections that follow this summary.
Clone Another Project (or clone from a Master List): This lets you copy an entire Material List in two clicks! This can be a Master List that your organization has curated for this purpose, or from a different project. If you have more than one Master List (i.e., for scopes such as interiors, structure envelope, site,) you can clone various lists multiple times to build up an entirely new list, if desired. Once you clone a list, you can then edit and change items as you wish.
Add Products From Another Project (a.k.a. the Compare view): This option lets you open another Material List and view them side by side, so you can copy selected items from that list, instead of cloning an entire list. You can copy from a Master List or any other Project’s Material List. You can copy in either direction, from original to the 2nd list, or vice versa.
Add Products From Catalog: This lets you add products to a Material List directly from our Catalog. You will notice that in this view, when you hover over products, 3 dots appear. When you click on the 3 dots, you have a choice to Add the product OR you can start to Compare products. NOTE: this only works when you enter the catalog from within a Material List. If you go straight to the catalog directly, rather than from a Project’s Material List, you won’t see dots since the view is not tied to a project, you will only see the Compare function. Some users begin creating Master Lists by going to the catalog and filtering for C2C (Cradle to Cradle), HPD (at 100ppm) or Declare and “Red List Free” – and then use the “Add All” button to automatically start with the healthiest options that have certification.
Create New Product: If you can’t find a product from our rapidly growing catalog, you can manually add it. Any products created by users are automatically added to our Catalog (basic info. only, nothing private or attributable). These show up in the catalog with the tag, “User Entered” until they are vetted by our team on the backend.
Import From a Spreadsheet (this is not a drop-down option, but we can do this for you): If you have been tracking products in spreadsheets or other tools (and can export to CSV), simply email these to us at [email protected]. We will transform that data into our platform, so you don’t lose past work.
