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title: "Board Manager"
description: "Add, arrange and supply the distribution boards in a certificate with the Board Manager in the Shine Forms tablet app."
source: "tablet"
---

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# Board Manager

The **Board Manager** is where you add distribution boards to the certificate, copy, reorder and delete them, and record what supplies each one. Open it from the ribbon: tap the section name or **Ribbon**, then the **Board Manager** tab.

![The Board Manager listing the boards in the certificate](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-board-manager.png)

Each row shows the board's designation and location, how many circuits it has, a **supply chip** describing where it is fed from, and a five-dot indicator showing how many of the board's test-instrument serial numbers have been recorded.

Tap the chevron at the right of a row to expand the board. There you can enter the serial numbers of the **test instruments** used on that board — continuity, RCD, insulation, earth and electrode — and tap **Open circuits** to go straight to that board in [Circuits & Tests](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/tablet-app-circuits-and-tests).

## Adding boards

Tap **Add Board** in the ribbon. The new board is added to the end of the list and numbered automatically — DB1, DB2 and so on.

## Selecting boards

Tick the box at the left of one or more rows to select them. A bar appears above the list with **Copy**, which adds copies of the selected boards and their circuits, **Delete**, which removes them and all their circuits, and **Clear**, which clears the selection. With a single board selected, the full ribbon's **Move Board** action moves it up or down the list.

If you delete a board that supplied other boards, those boards are reconnected to the origin and the app tells you which ones.

## Supplies

Every board needs a supply: the origin of the installation, another board, a circuit on another board, or something else described in words. The supply chip on each row shows what has been recorded, and it prints on the certificate.

Tap a board's **supply chip** to change it. The supply picker opens:

![The supply picker offering the four ways a board can be supplied](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-board-manager-supply-picker.png)

Choose **Connected to origin**, **Supplied by board**, **Supplied by circuit** or **Other (free text)**, pick the board or circuit where needed, and tap **Apply**. A board can never supply itself and supplies can't form a loop, so boards that this one feeds are not offered.

### The supplies tree

Tap **Supplies** in the ribbon to see the boards as a tree, nested under whatever supplies them.

![The Supplies view showing boards nested under the board or circuit that supplies them](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-board-manager-supplies.png)

- The **Origin of installation** is at the top, with the boards fed directly from it underneath.
- A board supplied from another board sits under that board. A board fed from a particular circuit, such as DB3 fed from circuit 1L2 on DB1, sits under that circuit.

Tap the arrow at the left of a board to show its circuits, or use **Expand All** and **Contract All** in the full ribbon to open or close every board at once.

![The Supplies view with every board expanded to show its circuits](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-board-manager-supplies-expanded.png)

You can also change a supply here by dragging: drag a board onto the board or circuit that supplies it. On a touch screen, press and hold the board first, then drag.

Tap **List** in the ribbon to return to the list view.

## Working with a board's circuits

Circuits are edited in the [Circuits & Tests](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/tablet-app-circuits-and-tests) section, which has a tab for each board.