> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Demo data
> Fill a company with a realistic industry story, so every screen has something in it, and put back exactly what was there before with one click.
Demo data populates a company with a coherent industry dataset covering items, BOMs, routings, customers, suppliers, orders, production, quality, maintenance, training, accounting, scheduling, and material planning.
Use demo data to explore, demonstrate, or test Alforse with realistic records. Apply it under **Settings → Demo Data** or select **Use a demo template** during sign-up.
## The templates
Each template provides linked records across sales, purchasing, production, quality, and accounting:
FieldType
**Aerospace & Satellite**
A satellite manufacturer, from RFQs through built and inspected flight hardware.
**Robotics OEM**
A robotics maker building assemblies to order.
**Precision Manufacturing**
A machine shop quoting and cutting precision parts.
**Motor Assembly**
An automotive supplier assembling motors.
Seeded dates are relative to the application date and include recent orders, jobs in progress, and upcoming due dates. Parts include thumbnails, and each template includes a 3D assembly.
Templates include normal and exceptional states: lost and expired quotes, partially shipped orders, paid and partially paid invoices, voided receipts, closed accounting periods, and succeeded, failed, and skipped workflow runs.
Related stock movements and payment settlements keep quantities and invoice balances consistent. Posted invoices, payments, memos, receipts, and shipments include journal entries for financial reports.
Jobs span every work center over three weeks and include active and recently completed operations.
The signed-in user receives a job, shift, assignments, and an open time card. Templates also configure sales and storage rules, purchase approvals, and customer portals. They do not add uploaded files, so [Documents](/docs/reference/documents.md) remains empty.
NOTE
**A template is not a backup**
Alforse generates demo data from current dataset definitions rather than a stored backup. To copy another company's actual data, use a [backup](/docs/platform/backups.md).
## Apply a template
Under **Settings → Demo Data**, select **Apply** for a template. Alforse first snapshots current company data, then replaces it with the template. The operation continues if you leave the page and reports each phase.
After applying the template, Alforse runs MRP and scheduling in the background to populate Material Planning, Demand Forecasts, Scheduling, and Priorities. If this run fails, the demo data remains and the regular three-hour MRP run retries the work.
HEADS UP
**Some companies can't take demo data**
Alforse cannot apply a template when the company contains records that cannot be deleted:
A company with intercompany customers or suppliers is refused with a "Seed:" error saying demo data can only be applied to a company without intercompany partners.
A company with posted or voided card transactions is refused with a "Seed:" error saying demo data can only be applied to a company without posted card transactions.
Alforse screenshot**Settings → Demo Data, the Apply a demo template card listing the four industry templates with their Apply buttons**
Applying a template snapshots the company first, then seeds the industry story.
When it finishes, the **"Demo data applied"** card asks you to decide:
* **"Keep"** accepts the demo data and permanently deletes the saved copy of your previous data, so it can't be reverted afterwards. Alforse asks you to type **"I understand, replace my existing data with the new demo data"** to confirm.
* **"Revert"** puts back exactly what was here before.
Only one demo-data change can be active per company. Application is atomic: if it fails, Alforse writes no rows and displays the error.
TIP
**Revert works even after a hiccup**
If a revert seems stuck, the card says so after a few minutes and offers "Retry revert". The saved copy of your data is kept until the revert succeeds, so retrying is always safe.
## Demo data at sign-up
The same templates power onboarding. When anyone creates a new company, the data step asks **"How would you like to start?"**:
FieldType
**Use a demo template**
Sets up sample customers, suppliers, parts and orders for the industry you pick. They appear shortly after you finish.
**Restore from a backup**
Sets the new company up from an uploaded [backup](/docs/platform/backups.md) of another Alforse company environment. Alforse staff only.
**I don't need data**
Starts with a clean, empty environment.
Choosing a template then asks **"Which best describes your company?"** and seeds the matching industry. See [Getting started](/docs/reference/onboarding.md) for the rest of the wizard.
NOTE
**Who can see the Demo Data page**
Anyone with permission to update settings can open Settings → Demo Data (the page requires `update` on `settings`).
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