> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://wiki.latch.bio/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Manually Create Single Records

<Steps>
  <Step title="To manually create records one-by-one, click on the “Add Record” button on the top right.">
    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/latchbio/MyGUG0Q2iaPqX-v6/images/single-records-1.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=MyGUG0Q2iaPqX-v6&q=85&s=2d6235a994d2bce16de7570a3bfa4f01" alt="" width="864" height="206" data-path="images/single-records-1.png" />

    A record with the name “Record 0” will be created. You can change the record names to anything you like, as long as record names are unique within the table.
  </Step>

  <Step title="To add additional attributes, or columns, to the record, click on the plus button, as shown in the picture below.">
    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/latchbio/H6zlCTun8E59mJDX/images/single-records-2.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=H6zlCTun8E59mJDX&q=85&s=d0658cab2f95367ea34156ae69d4351a" alt="" width="830" height="258" data-path="images/single-records-2.png" />

    You will see a dropdown menu of different types that you can assign to the column.
  </Step>

  <Step title="For every column, you can specify the column name, and whether the column is required and contains multiple or single entries.">
    For example, here we are creating a column called “Sequencing Read”. The cells within the column are required to be files on Latch and end with the file extension fastq.gz. The cell can also contain multiple files.

    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/latchbio/H6zlCTun8E59mJDX/images/single-records-3.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=H6zlCTun8E59mJDX&q=85&s=5b869379db19d85ac39849f02fe8a021" alt="" width="810" height="1014" data-path="images/single-records-3.png" />
  </Step>
</Steps>