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Practical guides for kintone administrators — views, fields, settings and manufacturing workflows — from PlugBits.

kintone for manufacturing

How to Track Which Production Step a Work Order Is In with kintone

kintone's Process Management status, tables (subtables), and Related Records lists can track which step each work order is in, though copying process rows for new work orders still has to be done by hand.

kintone views, input & settings

Why kintone list view column widths keep resetting (and how to make them stick)

In kintone, list view column widths save per login user and browser by default. Here's how an app administrator can set one shared width for everyone (as of October 2026).

kintone views, input & settings

Why kintone says someone else already saved this record (and how to recover your edits)

kintone has no record-locking feature, so whoever saves first wins. Here's what the error means, how to recover your edits, and how to check what was actually saved.

kintone for manufacturing

How to Create a Packing Slip in kintone: Carrying Over Order Details and Tax-Rate Subtotals

See how far kintone's standard App Actions and Calculated fields get you when building a packing slip: copying order line items, tax-rate subtotals, and a second copy for your records.

kintone views, input & settings

Why kintone CSV exports show garbled text in Excel (and how to fix it)

The cause is usually a character encoding mismatch. kintone lets you choose the encoding on export, and you can also change it when importing an already garbled CSV file.