The form has buttons for Category, Item names, Location, Room, Insurance company - these fields are required and will be selected from a list upon hitting those buttons. However depending what list you called this form much of that required data will be already be inserted for you. There are other buttons on the form to help you fill in data for non-required fields. Scroll below to learn more.

Use the Zoom button (or click on the image) to view the image in a larger window. Use the Graphic Editor to edit the image and the Play Movie button to view the movie. These buttons will be disabled if there are no images or movies for this item record.

When adding items to your inventory there are seven required fields. Four of the seven fields are automatically entered for you. Three fields - the Category name, Room name and Item name must be listed in the Pick Lists and selected from those lists: (see image). However, you can type the name or partial name in the one of those fields and My ICE Plan will bypass the "Pick Lists" if the name is already in the Pick List. If typing a partial name My ICE Plan will display the Pick List and show the closest match to what was typed in the field. Example: Typing Bed in the room name field will bring up the pick list to Bedroom 1 for you to select it or another choice. Another example: If you typed in Stove in the Item Name field then you would not see the Pick list at all since the item name "Stove" is already in the list. Using the Pick Lists and the Auto scroll feature is the fastest way to enter these three fields. If a name is not listed you can add it on the fly .

Required fields are:
( Scroll down to learn why there are required fields and how it relates to deleting a record)

Notes: (learn more about using forms in general )

1. If you add items from the TreeView list you can add items by a particular section and that section will be entered for you when you bring up the item form. Example: You can select to add items in just one room of a location. Then each time you add a new item that room name will be completed for you.
2. The item description field can contain 5000 characters.
3. Your photos (images) and movies can be retrieved from anywhere on your hard drive or even a network drive. Once you have selected a image My ICE Plan will create a copy of that image in the folder you have installed My ICE Plan. My ICE Plan will also rename that copied file and give it a ID number. Example: Lets assume you are entering your washing machine in the inventory, you selected the item name washing machine. To add a image of this item you browse to and picked a file called image55.jpg from a folder on your hard drive, which is a picture of the washing machine. My ICE Plan will copy that image and then rename it with the Item name and item ID (record number) of the item you just saved, in this case that name would be Washing Machine-ItemID-67.jpg. After you save the record and you are browsing your computers folders and look at the images in the folder called "Images" where you installed My ICE Plan; you will see all of you image files for your inventory. You easily can tell what the image is by looking at the name of the image. This makes is easy to just use your Windows explorer to view all of your item images and movies because your images and movies are in one place and named after the item it belongs to.
4. More Images Tab - you can enter unlimited images of a item by hitting the More Images tab. From there you can add more images of an item such as different angles or even scanned copies of documents such as receipts or warranties. My ICE Plan will accept file formats of *.jpg, *.gif, *.bmp, *.wmf, *.pcx. The More Images Tab is only available after you have entered the first image in the Item data tab.
5. To add an image or movie to a record hit the Item Image or Movie File  button to navigate to the folder where your image files are kept. 
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6. The Total cost is calculated for you. Just enter the quantity and the cost for one item and the correct total will be calculated for you.
7. Loss Report Tab and Data

Why are there required fields to enter?

In order to protect the your inventory from accidental deletions a relation between certain files must exist. This is the reason for having to chose the three critical pieces of data from the Pick List. An item record once entered can be deleted. However, records for the Categories, Item Names and Location files can not be deleted unless the Item record using the category, location or item name is deleted first. Example: (Lets assume you have 10 records using the room of "Master Bedroom" - and while you are in the Room list and have the Master Bedroom record highlighted, you accidentally hit the delete button and hit the confirm the deletion of the Master Bedroom room. My ICE Plan will not delete that Master Bedroom record from the Room list because it knows that you have items stored (kept) in the Master Bedroom. My ICE Plan will instead tell you that due to a "referential integrity" it can not delete the record. Thus eliminating the possibility of deleting the Mater Bedroom record and leaving your 10 item records with no room to where those items are stored.