Listings

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Overview

The Listings page is the central view of the material data you’ve published to your nodes — every supply or demand list you post.

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List Table

All posted lists are shown in the list table, with columns for Name, Published by, Listings (the event count), Last sent, Created, Type, Subtype, and Node. Click into a list to view its individual listing events, and page through with the pagination controls.

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Toolbar

The toolbar holds a layout toggle, the menu, and the Create Listing button. When a publisher filter is active, a badge shows whose lists you’re looking at with an to clear it. The menu contains:

• View — switch between Active, Archived, and All lists
• Published by — filter to Everyone or a single teammate
• Columns — show or hide optional columns
• Export — download the list table as Excel (.xlsx), CSV (.csv), or Text (.txt)

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List and Folder Layouts

The layout toggle switches between List view — a flat, paginated table of every list — and Folder view, which groups your lists into month folders (for example, June 2026) with a count on each. Click a folder to drill into that month, then Back to return to the folders. Your choice is remembered the next time you open the page. Folder view is the faster way to find a list when you post on a regular cadence and think in terms of “last month’s shortages” rather than a specific list name.

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List Actions

Use the menu on a list to:

• Send via Email — send the list’s listings as an Excel attachment (see Send as Excel Attachment)
• Email History — review previous sends for the list, including recipients and timestamps
• Archive — move the list out of your active view without deleting it

On an archived list, the menu offers a single action, Delete, which permanently removes the list and its listings from your nodes.

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Create Listing

Click Create Listing (available here and on the Home page) to open the listing-creation modal. Three tabs cover every way to create listings:

• Quick add — turn rows from an uploaded reference table into listings. Search your reference sets, select records from a single set (results are sortable by any column), set the listing type, and add them to your RFQ basket. See Send RFQs.
• New parts — for parts that aren’t in your reference data. Type or paste lines directly into a fixed grid (MPN, Qty, Manufacturer, Target Price, plus an optional per-line message); pasted tables split into rows and columns automatically. Lines go straight to the RFQ basket — no file, no column mapping.
• Upload list — upload a .xlsx/.csv file or paste a table, then map, clean, and post it through the upload flow. While an upload is processing, the Create Listing button shows a progress spinner.

Items added to the RFQ basket are assigned to whoever added them; open the basket to reassign lines to a teammate or pick up lines yourself before sending.

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Finding Your Basket

The RFQ basket isn’t on the Listings toolbar — it lives in the Baskets dropdown in the global header, alongside your Response Basket. A badge shows how many lines are waiting. Choose RFQ Basket to open it at /quote-request/basket .

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Events Table

Inside a list, the events table shows each individual listing event with full material details and pagination.

• Filter bar — search across material and internal numbers, and narrow by Site code, Program, or Manufacturer. Clear resets every active filter.
• Columns — show or hide optional columns. Which columns exist depends on the fields present in that list.
• Export — download the listings as Excel (.xlsx), CSV (.csv), or Text (.txt).
• Send RFQ — select one or more rows to enable it; the button shows how many listings you’ve selected.

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Sharing Listings with Partners

There are two ways to share listings, and they serve different purposes: Send via Email distributes a whole list as a file, while Send RFQ targets the specific listings you select and opens a quoting thread.

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Send as Excel Attachment

From the list menu, choose Send via Email to send the list’s listings as an .xlsx attachment:

1. Pick an email template (Share Listings type) or compose manually
2. Add recipients — search your partners, partner groups, or enter emails
3. Review the auto-filled subject and message (template variables like company name are substituted automatically)
4. Preview the attachment, then Send Email

Use this to distribute a full list — for example, sharing available supply or a demand forecast with a group of partners.

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How the Excel Round-Trip Works

The attachment isn’t just a copy of your data — it’s a form your partner fills in and sends back, which Seminode reads automatically. Understanding the shape of that file makes the round-trip reliable. What goes out. Each workbook starts with a Seminode Thread ID column, followed by your listing columns, followed by blank quote columns for your partner to complete — typically quantity, unit price, lead time, and whatever else you’ve configured. The column headers come from your quote-export header mappings at Settings → Header Mappings → Export Quotes , so partners see the labels your company uses rather than internal field names. What comes back. When the completed file returns, Seminode recognizes those same labels and maps them back to the right fields. A few details worth knowing:

• Header matching ignores case and extra whitespace, so a partner who retypes Unit Price as unit price is still understood.
• Only the first sheet of a returned workbook is read. Ask partners to fill in the sheet you sent rather than adding a new tab.
• A returned row needs its Seminode Thread ID plus a quantity and a unit price to import. Rows left blank are skipped; rows that are partially filled are flagged for review rather than silently dropped.
• If a partner deletes the Seminode Thread ID column, Seminode falls back to matching on the listing reference and then on the part number — but keeping the column intact is by far the most reliable path.

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Send RFQs

There are two ways to request quotes from partners.

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From a list

Open a list, select the listing rows you want in the events table, and click Send RFQ:

1. Choose an email template — RFQ templates are the Share Listings type
2. Select recipients — external partners or partner groups
3. Review the generated subject and message
4. Send RFQ

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From the RFQ basket

Build an RFQ straight from a reference table — no list required. Choose Create Listing → Quick add, select records, set the listing type and any private fields, and add them to your RFQ basket. (The New parts tab feeds the same basket for parts not in your reference data.) Open the basket to review your assigned lines, pick recipients, and send the RFQ. Either way, recipients receive your selected listings as a request for quote and can respond directly. Their responses flow back into your Inbox as quotes, where you can compare, counter, and accept them.

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Orders

For order tracking and fulfillment management, see Orders .