Getting started with DICE

DICE keeps a digital record — a Thread — for every physical item you care about. This page walks you through your first session: signing in, choosing where you work, creating a folder and a thread, and binding an identifier so the physical item and its digital record are linked. (If you want the mental model before the walkthrough, start with Core concepts.)

Sign in

DICE uses single sign-on: your account lives with your organization’s identity provider, and DICE never asks you to manage a separate password.

1. Open your DICE URL in a browser. The landing page greets you with Welcome back.

2. Click Sign In. You are redirected to your organization’s sign-in service; authenticate there as usual.

3. After signing in you land on the app Home page. On your next visit, an active session shows a Go to App button instead of Sign In.

Don’t have an account yet? The landing page includes a Contact Sales link — access to DICE is provisioned by your organization, so there is no self-service sign-up.

Tip

The landing page also has language and theme toggles in the top-right corner, so you can switch to your preferred language before you even sign in. See Navigating DICE for switching later from inside the app.

After signing in you land on Home: pending actions for your team, your recent threads, and the latest activity.

Choose your organization and team

Everything you do in DICE happens inside a context: an organization and a team within it. Threads, folders, and permissions all belong to a team.

If your account has access to more than one context and none is selected yet, DICE shows the Select your organization and team page after sign-in:

1. Pick an organization from the Organization dropdown.

2. Pick a team — the page notes “Note, you can change this at any time.”

3. Click Continue.

Switching context later

The context switcher sits in the app’s top bar and always shows your current organization and team. Click it to open a panel with:

• Current Context — your active organization and team. A shield icon marks contexts where you are an admin.
• Switch Organization — a dropdown of every organization you belong to. Choosing one also selects a default team in it.
• Switch Team — the teams available to you in the current organization.

Switching context changes what you see everywhere in the app: thread lists, folders, and activity all reflect the active team.

Create your first folder

Folders give threads a home. Every thread lives in exactly one folder, so create one before creating threads.

1. Open Folders in the sidebar.

2. If your team has no folders yet, the page invites you to “Create your first folder”. Click New Folder.

3. In the Create a Folder dialog, enter a name — the hint suggests “Use a short, specific name so the folder is easy to scan later” — and click Create.

You can nest folders and reorganize them later; see Folders.

Create your first thread

1. Click New Thread in the sidebar. The Create a New Thread page opens.

2. Under Details, enter a Name (required) and optionally a Description.

3. Choose a Folder (required). DICE pre-fills your most recently used folder when it can — look for the Last used badge in the folder picker.

4. Optionally pick a Template. Templates pre-populate the form with a Thread Fields section — a reusable set of field definitions your team manages under Threads > Templates. Without a template you get a Custom Fields section where you can add fields freely. Both are covered in Threads.

5. Fill in any fields, then click Create Thread. A “Thread created” confirmation appears and DICE opens the new thread’s detail page.

Creating a thread: name it, pick its folder, and DICE opens the new record.

Bind your first DUST identifier

Binding attaches an identifier — a DUST tag, QR code, barcode, Data Matrix, or NFC tag — to a thread, so scanning the physical item finds its record.

1. On the thread’s detail page, find the Identifiers card and click Bind. The scanner opens in bind mode, described as “Scan identifier to bind it to this thread.”

2. Allow camera access when the browser asks. If the browser has blocked it, the scanner explains how to re-enable it (“Click the camera/lock icon in the browser’s address bar and choose Allow for camera”, then reload).

3. Choose your Scanner mode: Camera to scan visually, or Manual to paste, type, or use a HID/Bluetooth scanner (“Manual Entry — Paste, type, or use a HID/Bluetooth scanner.”).

4. For camera scanning, line the code up in the on-screen reticle. Scanner Settings let you choose the camera device and adjust the reticle (color, style, blend, fullscreen). You can also tap the spacebar to scan.

5. For QR codes, barcodes, and similar formats, DICE shows a confirmation dialog — for example Confirm QR Bind — with the Detected Value, an optional Tag Description, and a confirm button, so you can “Review the scanned value before binding to this thread.”

6. On success you’ll see Successfully Bound! and the identifier appears on the thread.

Note

DUST tag binding is plan-dependent. When binding a DUST tag you also choose an Indexing Mode: Verify + Identify (“This DUST can be verified against a thread and identified from any scan”) or Cannot be identified (“This DUST can only be verified against the thread it was bound to”). If DUST operations are not on your organization’s plan, the scanner says so and other identifier types (QR, barcode, Data Matrix, NFC) still work normally. See Identifiers and Scanning.

Where to go next

Navigating DICEThe sidebar, Home page, context switcher, and user menu.

ThreadsFields, files, templates, archiving, and the thread detail page.

Identifiers and ScanningBind, verify, and identify with DUST and other identifier types.

FoldersOrganize threads into a folder hierarchy.

Sharing and AccessShare threads and folders with other teams.

FAQAnswers to common questions, including feature availability.