Show spool/refill information in inventory list and grid views

[ImNanou]

Hi,

Could the inventory List and Grid views display whether a filament entry is a refill or a spool?

The information already exists in the product details under Color & Aspect, but it is currently not visible at a glance from the main inventory views.

Current behavior

In List view, there is no obvious way to tell whether an item is:

• a refill
• supplied with a spool

In Grid view, the same information is also not clearly displayed, so the user often has to rely on the product image.

This can be misleading because the image does not always match the actual variant.

For example, I currently have a Bambu Lab PLA Basic – Jade White entry that is the version with spool, while its thumbnail shows what appears to be a refill.

As a result, the only reliable way to check is to open the item and look at the Color & Aspect section.

Suggested improvement

It would be useful to expose this existing information directly in the inventory views.

For example:

List view

An additional column could show:

Spool

or

Refill

Alternatively, the existing Color / Aspect information could be made available as optional columns.

Grid view

A small badge could be displayed directly on the card, for example:

REFILL

or

SPOOL

Optional configurable fields

An even more flexible solution would be to allow users to choose which fields are visible in the List and/or Grid views.

For example:

• Color
• Aspect
• Refill / Spool
• Material
• Brand
• Weight
• Capacity
• Price
• Tags

This would allow users to keep the interface compact while exposing the information that matters most for their own inventory workflow.

For an inventory containing many visually similar Bambu Lab filaments, being able to distinguish refills from complete spools without opening every item would be particularly useful.

Thanks!

[BenGlut]

Thanks — and your Jade White example turned out to be the key to what is going on.

Why the picture misled you

The official catalogue contains two Bambu Lab "PLA Basic - Jade White" products — one with a spool, one refill. Same brand, same name, same 1 kg. The only thing that tells them apart is a suffix buried in the SKU, which nobody reads. So in any list they look identical, and the picture is not a reliable way to tell them apart.

Why we cannot fix it straight away

To show Refill or Spool in your inventory and in the catalogue, Tiger Studio needs that information in the catalogue data it downloads — and today that data does not include it. This is not something the app can work around on its own: guessing from the SKU would only work for one brand and would be wrong for the others.

So we have asked for an update on the server side, so the catalogue carries this information for TigerTag+ and TigerData+ products. Once it is there, Tiger Studio can display it.

What to expect

We are going to take care of it, but it cannot be done immediately. Please allow a few weeks — it has been flagged as a priority. I am leaving this issue open until it ships, so you will be notified here when it does.