Creating a New Product

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Creating a New Product

This section will walk you through the minimum steps needed to create a Product and attach an SDS document so that it is available via the web search.

Select Products from the toolbar or from the menu Admin ->Products -> Products

 

product bar

 

or

 

prod1

 

 

The Product list form will appear.  Click the New icon as shown below.

 

 

new product

 

 

A blank Product record will be created.  First enter the Product Name.

 

 

new product name

 

In the Company Name prompt, enter the first letters of your company:

 

new company name

 

If the company of the product is not available, type the name of the company in the prompt.  The company should only occur once. Click Select.

 

If you do not see your company, click New. The company's information can be typed into the prompts (along with a logo, as shown, if preferred):

 

new company info

 

In commonly used SDS's, the company will usually be available to select:

 

new company wd40 example

 

 

 

In the upper tab, click Document:

 

new product new document wd40 example

 

While this tab is open, 2 functions should be performed.

 

1. Open your web browser and find the SDS you wish to import. WD-40 is the example. Once you have located the proper SDS, right click the product and save the URL by selecting "Copy link address" to your clipboard:

 

new sds from web wd40  

2. Return to SDSpro with "Product: Adding New...." open.  Under Document, click Import:

 

import new sds from web

 

Click Next. If #1 was performed and the (example WD-40) product link was saved to clipboard; the following can be seen:

 

new product url wd40

 

Click "Download". The document should take a few seconds to download and the following prompt will return completed:

 

new product under document after import

 

 

Before saving, make sure to fill in the Revision Date:

 

new product url revision date

 

 

 

 

The minimum information of dates, Revision Date, Document language, Document Status, and GHS Document should be entered prior to clicking "Save" (as shown above).

 

To check to see the product entry, search under the initial Product Name search and click on the typed in product name. Example:

 

search product name

 

Your product should show after clicking on it, with the revision date typed in, at the top:

 

new product under product

 

To confirm the product in your database, go back to the top Toolbar/Dashboard/home of SDSpro. Your new product should show in your product output form.

 

product w WD40

 

At this point, you should be able to view the new Product and SDS via the web search.  To easily check this, open the Dashboard and launch the web interface.
If not already open, launch the Dashboard from the tool bar dash1
or menu.
dash2

Launch the web server as shown here.

dash3

Your web browser should launch, as well as the SDSpro web search interface shown.  
Search for the new Product.  Click Search.

ws1

Your new Product should be returned.  Click the Product Name link to view the SDS document.

ws2

These are the minimum steps for entering a Product and SDS.  Additional steps can be taken, including listing Hazards and Classifications, Ingredients, Inventory and much more.