Help & Documentation

When you're travelling internationally with camera equipment, you need an ATA Carnet. This tab consolidates everything your local German Chamber of Industry & Commerce (IHK) needs into one downloadable bundle.

• Aggregates every gear item in your project, including accessories (rolled up under parent or listed individually).
• Validates each item against IHK requirements (serial number, weight, value, country of origin).
• Produces a single ZIP containing: ATA_Carnet_Full_List.pdf, IHK_Warenliste.csv, IHK_Fotos.pdf, plus an items/ folder of photos.
• ZIP filename pattern: carnet_{ProjectName}_{YYYY-MM-DD}.zip.
• After download, upload IHK_Warenliste.csv to your chamber's e-ATA portal (e-ata.de) and attach photos for items without serial numbers.

The Carnet tab is off by default. Turn it on per-project when the shoot crosses a non-EU border.

1. Open the project workspace.
2. Open the project header's '…' menu → 'Configure Tabs'.
3. Toggle 'Carnet' on for this project.
4. The tab appears in the workspace tab bar — switch to it to start.

Before exporting, the tab validates every item for IHK-required fields and surfaces a per-item error list.

• What each item needs: a serial number or a photo (one of the two identifies it), a replacement value above zero, and a country of origin. Weight is not an IHK requirement and is not flagged — it only feeds the case totals.
• The carnet header (Carnet declaration) needs a Carnet number, Issued by, an Issue date, an Expiry date and at least one destination country; an expiry date on or before the issue date, or already past, is flagged too.
• Items with missing or malformed fields show a validation badge with the count.
• The 'Export Carnet ZIP' button shows a warning badge if any items or the header still have validation errors.
• You can still export with errors — the button asks for confirmation first — but the chamber may reject the carnet.

One button does everything: ATA PDF + IHK CSV + IHK Photos PDF + photo folder, all in one ZIP.

1. Open the project's Carnet tab.
2. Fix any validation errors via the inline Quick Edit.
3. Optionally use Case Packing to group items into their physical transport cases.
4. Click 'Export Carnet ZIP' in the tab header.
5. A progress overlay shows stages: PDF generation, CSV, photos PDF, photo packing. You can cancel mid-export.
6. The ZIP downloads with a carnet_{ProjectName}_{date}.zip filename.

Group items by physical transport case so the export (and your customs inspection) can follow them case by case.

• Under Case Packing, add an Empty Case, or pick a case item from your gear list under 'From template...' and press +.
• Each item under Unpacked Gear has a 'Pack into...' menu — choose the case. 'Unpack' returns an item; deleting a case unpacks everything in it.
• Each case shows its total weight, with a warning when it exceeds the 32 kg airline limit.
• The Full List PDF and the CSV list the packed items case by case, then the unpacked ones, with one totals row. In the items/ folder each case gets its own Case_<name> folder and the rest go into Unpacked.
• The eye-slash button on an unpacked item (Exclude from Carnet) keeps it in the project but off the carnet; it moves to 'Excluded from Carnet', where 'Include' brings it back.
• A row added from the device catalogue weighs its catalogue device unless you set a weight yourself (Quick Edit or Auto-fill — an explicit 0 counts). The tab's Total Weight, every case total, the Full List PDF, the IHK CSV and the per-item text files all declare that one weight, and so does the briefing's Carnet card.

The Carnet tab is also where the Briefing PDF's logistics page reads its data from. These three lists are independent of the carnet ZIP but live in the same tab. Every field is free text.

• Ground vehicles — 'Add vehicle': type, purpose, plate, driver and capacity.
• Transportation legs — 'Add leg': mode, route, an optional linked vehicle from the list above, date and details. Legs and vehicles print together on the briefing's Transportation card.
• Carts & accessories — 'Add cart': cart name, who it is assigned to, and its contents, one per line. They print on the briefing's Carts card.

The CSV inside the ZIP is what you upload to the German IHK e-ATA portal. Column headers and value formats are tuned to the portal's import spec.

• Filename inside the ZIP: IHK_Warenliste.csv.
• Semicolon-separated columns: position, quantity, description (the serial number is appended as 'SN:…', or '(Foto anbei)' when the item has a photo instead), weight, weight unit, value, country of origin, HS code.
• Weight and value are row totals (quantity multiplied in). A row of 1 kg or more is written in 'kg', a lighter one in 'g'; decimals use a period.
• Values are bare numbers with no currency symbol, and nothing is converted — enter replacement values in the currency your chamber expects.
• Item descriptions appear verbatim on the final carnet — double-check spelling and capitalisation.

Two photo artifacts ship inside the ZIP. The PDF is for printing; the items/ folder gives you raw images for per-item portal uploads.

• IHK_Fotos.pdf — each page shows item name, serial number, and product photo. Print or submit with the carnet.
• items/ — one text file per item with its details, plus the item's photo when it has one, grouped in a folder per case. Use the photos when the portal asks for a photo per row.
• A photo that cannot be loaded (offline or unavailable) is left out, and the progress overlay says how many were.
• Photos come from your Owned Gear items — set a photo there and 'Auto-fill from owned gear' copies it onto the carnet row.