Add a box or instructions

Since 1.1.0.

Use this when you own the original box or the instruction booklet of a set and want them in your collection as items of their own. The catalogue holds sets, minifigures and parts but no boxes or instructions, so Brick Work offers them through their set.

Find the box

1. Open Manage → Add and under What choose Box or Instruction.
2. Type the number or the name of the set, for example 6382-1 or fire station. The results are the matching sets, shown as boxes or instructions, each with the set's picture.
3. Select the ones you own and press Review.

A BrickLink box or instruction has the number of its set, which is why the search runs over the sets. A box you added before shows as the item itself and says how many you own.

Add it

1. The review lists each box or instruction with its set's name. Choose the Where, the Condition and the quantity.
2. Press Add. The first time, Brick Work creates the item, named as the set. It links the item to BrickLink as O (box) or I (instructions) with the set's number. Your copy is added as loose stock.
3. The panel under Importing has an Open link to the item's page.

With a BrickLink key, Brick Work asks BrickLink once for each box or instruction you pick that is not in your collection yet, at the review. If BrickLink knows it, the item takes BrickLink's name. If BrickLink does not list a box or instruction for that set number, the review says so and the item's link is left to check; you can still add it. Without a key, or when BrickLink does not answer, nothing is checked and the item is named as the set. One lookup is one call of the shared daily BrickLink budget, and one review looks up at most 20 picks; the rest are not checked.

You can also paste set numbers with Box or Instruction chosen. A number that no set has is offered as an unidentified item, as for any other type.

Undo takes your copy back. The item it created stays, with none owned, and the next add of the same box uses it.