This approach can be used if you are starting up a project with a list of items you need to specify (a "shopping list" organized by room) or if you have already created all (or most) of the needed objects as part of a budgeting or preliminary design process. From the Specifications Form, you can 

• Specify products and create objects from them
• Modify existing objects by adding new specifications to their component list
• Modify existing objects by replacing existing components

The spec-oriented approach is a three-step process, since you will typically create most or all of your areas and rooms first: 

1. Using the Area List and the Room List forms, create any areas and rooms needed for the objects you will eventually place in them. Note that if you forget an area or room, you can manually click on the Areas or Rooms button in the Views Box at any time, add the needed items, then return to where you left off. However, unlike the intregrated "Create new" command buttons on the FF&E Worksheet, this does not automatically return you to the screen from which you started.
2. Create specifications using the Add or Clone function on the Specifications Form.  To save repetitive typing on specifications with similar content or boilerplate notes, you may want to create prototype specs (see the general discussion here to find out more) that can be cloned. Prototype specs or fully detailed specs can also be imported after you select Add, using the Import subcommand that will appear.
3. Apply your specifications as components using the convenient Object function on the same form (not on the Objects Form). For new specifications, the Save / Object command will save the spec and run the Object command in one step.

Whenever you create a new specification directly on the Specification Screen (not when it was called automatically as part of a larger process), we strongly recommend that you use the Save / Object command instead of just Save. All specs must be used in objects (that then are used in rooms), so letting the system help you make that "link" is always easiest. You can use the command to create a new object for the new spec, or to add it to an existing object (as an additional component).

The details for steps 2 and 3 are covered in the section, "Creating Component Specifications." These two steps can be performed all at once (that is, you can create all your specifications first and then attach them to objects) or you can use them in a repeating method, first creating a spec and then using it in an object.