Help & Documentation

A way to get a file into the right place without opening the app first, finding the project, and hunting for the upload button.

• Share a file to Cine Power Planner from anywhere your Android phone offers a share sheet — a receipt photo, a PDF invoice, a call sheet somebody mailed you, a photo of a lens. On a Mac, right-click the file → Open With → Cine Power Planner. On iPhone and iPad the app does not appear in the share sheet: the iOS app is built without the Share Extension that needs.
• The app opens a short review screen instead of guessing: you stay in control of where each file goes.
• You can share several files at once; each row is decided separately.
• Nothing is filed until you press Import — until then every file is still just staged.
• Pressing Import confirms what happened — how many files were filed, and separately any that were already imported. Dismissing the screen tells you how many moved to the Shared documents inbox, so a batch you park is never a silent disappearance.

Each file gets one category, and the category decides which feature receives it.

• Receipt — creates a draft expense with the file attached, with the vendor-bill toggle off.
• Vendor bill — creates a draft expense with the vendor-bill toggle on. If the file is an e-invoice (XML or ZIP, or a PDF carrying embedded invoice XML) it goes through the e-invoice reader, which prefills the expense from the structured data. A file that cannot be read falls back to a plain bill draft rather than failing.
• A ZUGFeRD / Factur-X invoice is an ordinary PDF that also carries the invoice as structured data inside it — the format most German suppliers now send. Shared as a Vendor bill, it is read the same way the Import e-invoice button on the Expenses screen reads it: amount, VAT, date, supplier and invoice number are filled in for you, and an invoice you already filed is recognised instead of duplicated. A PDF with nothing embedded still becomes an ordinary bill draft with the file attached.
• Call sheet — opens the Day Brief / External Brief import for a project you choose, with the file already loaded. You can pick an existing project or create one on the spot.
• Gear photo — attaches the image to an owned-gear item you choose, as that item's main picture.

Two of the four categories need to know WHICH project or WHICH piece of gear.

• Call sheets ask for a project. Pick one from the list, or choose "New project…" and type a name — it is created as part of filing the file.
• Gear photos ask for an owned-gear item; search your own gear by name.
• Receipts and vendor bills need no target — they become draft expenses you review in Accounting.
• Use "Remove file" on any row you shared by accident.

The holding area for anything you did not file straight away.

• "Move rest to inbox" parks every undecided file so you can deal with it later instead of blocking on it now.
• The inbox syncs across your devices — share on the phone, file it on the laptop.
• Each waiting file can be filed (which reopens the same category + destination choice) or deleted.
• Filing or deleting a file removes it from the inbox on all your devices, and it stays gone after a reload. Before v0.859.6 it was removed only on the device you used: it came back after a reload, and your other devices kept showing it.
• An empty inbox reads "Nothing shared yet."

• “Already imported” — the same file was filed before. The app recognises it and does not create a second copy, and it now says so: after Import you get an “Already imported” message instead of a silent success. In the Shared documents inbox the row stays put rather than disappearing, so nothing you uploaded is thrown away — press Delete when you are done with it.
• Deleting an invoice frees it to be imported again. The check looks only at invoices you still have; one you moved to the bin no longer counts as already imported. Before v0.703.52 a deleted invoice stayed blocked forever — the app kept refusing it and pointing at a row that was no longer there.
• "Couldn't import — try again" on a row means that one file failed; the others in the batch are unaffected, so retry just that row.
• A file you filed as a receipt or bill appears in Accounting as a draft expense — it is not booked until you review it.
• If a call sheet import opens but looks empty, the file itself may not be readable text; the Day Brief import screen is where you check that, not here.
• A share that arrives with no file type and no extension — common from messaging apps and Android content links — is now identified by its content instead, so a real PDF or photo goes through even when the sending app tells us nothing about it. ZIP archives are the exception: a bare .zip has to name itself, because that same signature is used by Word, Excel and e-book files as well as by e-invoices.