Asset Imports Run in the Background, up to 10,000 Rows
Importing assets from a CSV now shows a preview first and then runs in the background, so you can leave the page. Find it under Assets → Import: you get a progress bar, an email when it finishes, and a Resume import button if it ever stops. One file can now hold up to 10,000 assets.
Asset imports from a CSV now run in the background. Under Assets → Import, choose your file and click Continue, check where each of your columns goes, then click Preview import. Shelf checks every row and shows what the file will do before anything is created: how many assets it holds, the new categories, locations, tags, kits, custodians and custom fields it will add, and a grid of the rows.
Click Import N assets and confirm, and the import runs in the background. You can leave the page: a progress card follows you around Shelf, the assets list shows your team that an import is running, and you get an email when it is complete.
What changes for you:
- Bigger files. One file can hold up to 10,000 assets (up from 1,000), so most inventories go in as a single file.
- Resume instead of re-upload. If an import stops, Resume import continues it without duplicates.
- Warnings, not failures. If something changes between the preview and the import, for example a QR code from the file gets linked to another asset, that row is still imported with the value left out, and the import page lists it.
Updating existing assets by CSV works as before, up to 1,000 assets per file.
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