User guide
Learn SpecLatch, one task at a time.
Short articles for the people who own the product data: tables and fields, importing a spreadsheet, formulas that check their units, confidentiality, and spec sheets.
Start here · your first hour
5 steps · about 50 min| Step | Task | Who | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Create your first table and its fields | Admin · Engineering | 10 min |
| 02 | Import the spreadsheet you have today | Admin · Engineering | 10 min |
| 03 | Give fields units and write one formula | Admin · Engineering | 10 min |
| 04 | Mark what is confidential, then send a record for reviewSet a field's confidentiality tierSend a record for review, approve, publish | Admin · Engineering, then editors | 10 min |
| 05 | Generate a spec sheet PDF | Editors | 10 min |
Everything in the guide
8 topics · 40 articles
Begin here if SpecLatch is new to you.
Model your products: tables, field types, choices, links between tables, lookups and rollups.
Work in the grid like a spreadsheet: paste, filter, sort, saved views, tags, bulk actions, trash.
Fields that know their unit, dual display, formulas that check units, your own functions, curves.
Public, internal and confidential fields; what each role sees; draft, in review, published.
Spec sheets and catalogs from live data: templates, the page designer, branding, languages.
- HGenerate a spec sheet PDF10′
- HDesign a template8′
- HPrint a catalog and set your brandingGrowth+6′
- HDocuments in other languagesGrowth+5′
Your public catalog site and the read-only API: what shows, inquiries, keys, AI assistants.
- HTurn the portal on and choose what customers seeGrowth+6′
- HReceive and answer inquiriesGrowth+4′
- HCreate an API key; connect an AI assistantGrowth+5′
CSV and Excel in, with column mapping and unit conversion; your whole organization out, any time.
Invite people, choose roles, translations, AI assists, plans and seats.
H how-to · C concept · R reference · ′ minutes · a topic's name opens its overview