Capturing products: four doors into one register

The shared product register

The product list (sidebar: Produktliste) holds every product in the company; the subtitle reads "Produktregister (gesamtes Unternehmen)". The search field "Produkte durchsuchen" filters by name, CAS number or supplier. When nothing matches, the "Keine Treffer" empty state echoes the query you typed.

The four intake doors

The "Produkt hinzufügen" button at the top right opens a menu with four doors. The labels differ between the menu and the intake-mode strip inside the dialog: same outcome, two entry points. All four paths end in the same product record.

1. 1 Aus Quellen suchen Look up the authoritative sources (GESTIS, PubChem, ECHA).
2. 2 Aus SDB erfassen Read from a safety data sheet (upload the PDF, extract the values, review).
3. 3 Mehrere importieren (ZIP) Upload several SDS as a ZIP; in the intake-mode strip the same door is labelled "Mehrere SDB (ZIP)".
4. 4 Produkt erfassen Enter the fields by hand; in the intake-mode strip this door is labelled "Manuell erfassen".

Manual entry

The form is grouped by identity. Name and CAS number suggest matches from the register (typeahead). Values you type by hand count as self-authored and therefore carry no source badge (see the Provenance section).

Search the sources

This door searches the authoritative sources live and merges the hits (deduplicated by CAS, each card carrying its source and freshness). Selection is followed by a review step. When nothing fits, "Keine passt - manuell erfassen" drops you into the manual door.

Capture from the safety data sheet

You upload the PDF; extraction runs in two stages. "Import gestartet" confirms the start, and an import dock with a notification badge shows progress. The review step that follows flags "Verworfene Werte" with safety warnings. Hazard information is taken over verbatim and never machine-translated.

Import several SDS as a ZIP

For the initial fill you upload a ZIP batch. Each file is extracted individually; the import dock shows per-file progress. You then review the records as with a single SDS.

Adopt from the master list

When the product list is filtered to an organizational unit, a fifth door appears: "Aus Grundliste übernehmen". It links a product already in the company to the unit (including as "used, not stored") without creating it again.

The product detail page

The record bundles identity, the hazard profile (signal word, H and P statements, hazard categories verbatim), physico-chemical values, storage, transport (ADR) and ingredients. The hazard profile appears this way on the label and is shown unchanged:

SIGNALWORT: Gefahr
H225 - Flüssigkeit und Dampf leicht entzündbar.
H319 - Verursacht schwere Augenreizung.
H336 - Kann Schläfrigkeit und Benommenheit verursachen.
P210 - Von Hitze, heißen Oberflächen, Funken, offenen Flammen sowie anderen Zündquellenarten fernhalten. Nicht rauchen.
P233 - Behälter dicht verschlossen halten.
P305+P351+P338 - BEI KONTAKT MIT DEN AUGEN: Einige Minuten lang behutsam mit Wasser ausspülen. Eventuell vorhandene Kontaktlinsen nach Möglichkeit entfernen. Weiter ausspülen.
GEFAHRENKATEGORIEN: Flam. Liq. 2 / Eye Irrit. 2 / STOT SE 3

Provenance

Enriched fields carry a source badge with the name of the source (GESTIS, ECHA, PubChem; "GHS" for derived values such as the storage class). ECHA and GESTIS values additionally show an unchanged attribution text. Self-authored fields (such as the supplier) deliberately carry no badge.

Ingredients and enrichment

The ingredients card lists the composition; a "Details" link opens the ingredient page. There the "Angereichert" status shows the resolved fields per source; "Jetzt anreichern" triggers enrichment.