The LotJitsu app keeps working when your phone has no connection. It saves your work on the phone and sends it when the connection returns. LotJitsu on your computer needs a connection for everything.
The app doesn't show an offline badge or a "waiting to send" count. It decides for itself whether it can reach LotJitsu, and your phone's signal bars don't change that.
What you can do offline
Everything below is saved on the phone straight away and sent later:
- Add lots, with photos and Lot Numbers, in Standard or Fast Entry Mode.
- Edit a lot's fields and tap Save, or change its Lot Number.
- Add, delete and reorder photos, and change the Cover Photo.
- Create folders and catalogs, rename them, and change Catalog Settings.
- Move and reorder folders, catalogs and lots.
- Delete lots, catalogs and folders.
You can also see every catalog and lot you opened on this phone while you had a connection.
What you see when you save offline
- A new lot ends on Lot N Added with a note that its uploads and writing will run when you are back online. In Fast Entry Mode the message reads "Lot N queued".
- A new folder or catalog shows "Folder saved locally. It will appear in your list once connectivity returns." (or "Catalog saved locally…"). It is already in your list; the message means it hasn't reached LotJitsu yet.
- A photo added to an existing lot shows "file name: saved locally, will upload when online".
A lot you add offline has empty fields until its photos are sent and LotJitsu writes them.
What needs a connection
These controls appear greyed out while you are offline, with no message:
- sharing, inviting, changing roles and removing collaborators
- accepting or declining an invitation
- Transfer: Export and Import, and Import in the account menu
- Restore in the Activity Log, and Download in History
- crop, rotate and Reset to original in the photo viewer while you edit a lot (in the New Lot sheet they work offline, and the change is sent when you reconnect)
If History has nothing saved on your phone to show, it says "You're offline. Connect to see your exports and activity."
These also need a connection: Auto Write, Detect number in photo (the app uses Next available instead), and logging in. A folder or catalog you created offline can't be shared, exported or imported until it has been sent.
Good to know
- A catalog or lot you have never opened on this phone has nothing to show offline. A lot never opened on this phone can't take photos offline: you see "This lot has not been opened on this device yet, so it cannot take photos offline." See Prepare your phone for a capture session.
- If a platform's fields never loaded on this phone, you see "Fields for platform aren't available offline yet. Connect once to load them."
- The app won't save a photo when the phone has less than 200 MB free.
- What happens when you reconnect: How offline changes are sent.
