Putting boxes at a location

A location is a place. Boxes live at locations. The relationship is bidirectional — same as items-in-box, you can manage it from either side.

Method 1 — From the location

When you've just unpacked a moving truck and dropped 20 boxes in the garage, this is the fast way.

Open the location's edit page.
Scroll to the Boxes at this location fieldset. You'll see a checkbox list of every box in your account.
Tick the boxes that are at this location.
Save.

Same controls as the items-in-box picker: Select all, Clear, filter, live count. Same warning behaviour: if a ticked box is currently at a different location, you'll see a ⚠ warning, and saving moves it.

Method 2 — From the box

When you create or edit one box, the Location dropdown lets you pick where it lives.

Items at a location (without a box)

You can put an item directly at a location without going through a box, but only via the closet path or by leaving the box and closet both blank. The item then has no box and no closet — it's just "at the location" implicitly via whatever closet/box it ends up in.

In practice, almost every item is either in a box or in a closet. The "loose at the location" case is rare and usually means you haven't decided where to put it yet.

Visualizing the location's contents

The location's view page lists:

Boxes at this location — count and list. Click any box to drill in.
Closets at this location — count and list.
Items at this location — only items that have location_id set directly, NOT items inside boxes/closets at this location. (We're considering changing this — let us know if it's confusing.)

To see the full contents of a location including everything inside boxes and closets, drill into each box/closet from the location page.

Self-storage units

The most useful location to model carefully. A typical setup:

Location: Self-storage Hertogstraat 12 unit 47A, kind: Self-storage unit
15-30 boxes at this location, each one containing 5-50 items
Maybe 1-2 closets (a wardrobe, a shelf rack)
Print large labels for each box, smaller stickers for the items inside

Stick a QR on the unit's door pointing to the location. Now: arrive at facility → scan door → see what's inside before opening.