How to filter and save a list of products to watch

A list is a saved group of specific product variants you want to watch together: one brand, one season, the twelve items in a launch. It appears in the same dropdown as the built-in views, covered in How to choose a stock view and ranking window.

Before you start

Creating, editing and deleting lists needs write access to the store surfaces. Anyone with view access can open and read a list somebody else built.

Why would you want one?

Because the built-in views rank the whole catalogue, and sometimes the question is about a specific set of products rather than the business as a whole.

Fairgreen keeps a list for the autumn drop. During launch week, one click shows those twelve items and nothing else, which is a different question from "what is low across the catalogue".

Other lists that earn their place: one supplier's range while you are trialling them, and the handful of lines a wholesale account has committed to.

How do you build one?

Open the view dropdown and choose New list….

Give the list a name, then search the catalogue by product name or SKU. The picker pre-loads products, so it is useful before you have typed anything.

Expand a product to see its variants. Tick individual variants, or tick the product itself to select every variant at once. A partly selected product shows a half-state on its checkbox.

A running N selected count sits alongside, and each variant shows its SKU and current stock while you pick, so you can build the list and sanity-check it at the same time.

Save it, and it appears under Your lists in the dropdown and opens straight away. Names can run to 80 characters.

Does a list keep itself up to date?

No. A list is a fixed set of variants: it holds exactly what you picked, and adding a new product to your catalogue does not add it here.

That is the right behaviour for a launch or a season, which is a fixed set by definition. It is worth knowing before you build a list called "everything from Portside Mills" and expect it to grow.

For a set that does keep up with itself, use the vendor filter on a built-in view instead.

How do you change what is in one?

Open the list from the dropdown and press Edit. That is also where you rename it.

The picker works exactly as it did when you built it, so removing a variant is unticking it.

How do you delete one?

Delete, which asks for confirmation first. The view then falls back to the default, Top 100 by units.

A link pointing at a list that has since been deleted quietly falls back to the default view rather than showing an error, so an old bookmark keeps working rather than breaking.

Can you link straight to a list?

Yes. The address carries the view, so a saved list can be sent to a colleague or bookmarked for launch week.

The same is true of a vendor filter, which is how a supplier's stock gets linked from elsewhere in Tideswell. See How to add a supplier and record their terms.