Adding Text to a Service Job

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Adding Text to a Service Job

Use this option to add free text to a service job.

Reference

If you want to add standard text that is often used by your staff when creating and maintaining jobs, refer to "Setting up Standard Text for Service Jobs".

Display the Job Information screen for the job you want to add text to.

Refer to "Maintaining the Service Job Header".

Select the Accept button or press F2 to proceed.

Micronet displays the Job Transaction Processing screen.

Select EDIT | TEXT.

Technical Tip

By default, the Job Transaction Processing screen is set to EDIT | ITEM so you add or edit materials for a job (refer to "Adding Materials to a Service Job" ). When you select this menu option, EDIT | TEXT is selected so you can add or edit text. You can also add or edit labour for a job (refer to "Adding Labour to a Service Job").

If you want to:

add a text line to the job, select the Add button
insert a text line in the job, select the line below where you want the line inserted then select the Insert button
delete a text line from the job, select the line then select the Delete button
edit a text line, double click on a line or select a line then press Enter.

If you selected to add, insert or edit a text line, Micronet displays the Add Text screen.

Complete the following fields:

	Field	Value
	Enter Text	Enter the text to be posted against the job.
	Stage	Micronet displays the default stage for this job as set in the Department master file (refer to "Adding a New Department"). Normally this would be set to 1. You can delete this and enter another stage if required. You can also press Tab or Enter to select a stage.

Reference

If your job has multiple stages and you haven't created them yet, refer to "Job Transaction Processing - Stages - Variations and Stages".

Optionally, you can perform any of the following edits or actions on the Add Text screen if required:

add materials to the service job - refer to "Add Text - Item"
enter labour for the service job - refer to "Add Text - Labour".

When you have finished adding or maintaining text for the job, select the Accept button.

If you added text to the job, Micronet redisplays the Add Text screen so you can add further text if required.

When you have finished adding text to the job, select the Cancel button.

Micronet redisplays the Job Transaction Processing screen, showing the items, text and labour posted to the job at the bottom of the screen.

Continue processing the job by completing the steps required in the "Job Transactions Overview".