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Link your art works and corresponding information in ARTBUTLER with other sections such as artists or exhibitions. Find out how to do so here.

Can I close all of the open contacts/works in one go?

This article shows how you can reset the view of opened contacts.

Work Techniques and Signatures

ARTBUTLER uses smart shortcuts for techniques and signatures to allow automatic translation, avoid spelling errors and achieve a consistent appearance of your input throughout all works. Learn how to use them and to add your own as you go.

Text fields for work provenance

With ARTBUTLER 2.11 you have option to work with additional text fields for the work provenance. We show you how to use them the most efficient way.

Exporting image files

This article shows how you can export a document, e.g. a worklist, accompanied by all related image files.

Stock Management

For edition works with unlimited copies or products like books or posters whose sales don’t require a tracking of individual items you can control the number of available copies with the stock management feature of ARTBUTLER 2.9+. For works with this feature enabled you can enter any number of included items in invoices and offers […]

Manage Holdings

With the help of ARTBUTLER, you can manage various work inventories in one database, for instance, when companies handle different business areas via affiliates or branches, or when legacies, work catalogues, or collections have also been recorded in ARTBUTLER. To organise these inventories, go to Inventory in the first work tab’s dropdown menu.

Document Settings

This article will explain how documents can be linked between ARTBUTLER and your computer or server. It will explain how to set up the general path, link any document to ARTBUTLER, as well as how to link an ARTBUTLER document back to the software.

Maintenance mode

Entries deleted in ARTBUTLER will not be removed from the database, they continue to exist marked as deleted so that they no longer appear in ARTBUTLER. This ensures, for example, that the same inventory or invoice number cannot be issued twice. Additionally, deleted works will continue to show in all records they have been linked […]