Hand out a job and mark it checked

A supervisor can give a job to a named person. That person finds it first on their own Home, checks it, and says so. Who checked it, and when, stay on the job.

Hand a job out

1. Save the job, then press Close.
2. Press Hand out in the column, under Today. It is a supervisor's page.
3. Under Give a job, choose the job. Under To, choose the person. Each person is named with how many jobs they hold, for example Bo (3).
4. Write a Note if you like, such as Check the cut gap before it goes on a press.
5. Press Give it to and the person's name.

Studio says the job is now theirs and first on their Home, and shows how many jobs they hold. The job is held against the person's account, not their name, so two people called Bo are two people.

If you open the job yourself afterwards, it stays with them. Only Take it takes it back.

What the person sees

On their Home, Your work lists the job first, saying who gave it and why: Handed to you by …: Check the cut gap before it goes on a press. Open › opens the sheet exactly as it was saved.

Mark it checked

Press Mark as checked, from Your work or from inside the open job beside the preflight. Under the job it then says Checked by you, with the date and time, and the button is gone.

The supervisor sees it too. The Jobs list says Checked by and the name, with when, and Today's production, on the Hand out page, says how many jobs each person laid out and checked today.

The mark is kept against the person's account, with the time, and is never changed afterwards. If the job is saved again after it was checked, it reads … The job changed since it was checked. and Mark as checked comes back, so the new save can be checked in its turn.

Hand out today's jobs

On the same Hand out page, Hand out today's jobs suggests who takes each job nobody has: only people signed in today, whoever has least first, and the job wanted soonest first. Change any line, or set it to Nobody in this go, and the rest moves round it. Who has what shows each person's share. Hand these out gives them all in one go. A job somebody already has is left with them. A supervisor is suggested only when nobody else is signed in, and can still be chosen on a line.

Why it matters for your shop

• A job has one holder. Nobody wonders whose it is, and nobody saves over somebody else's work by accident.
• The check is a person's, with a time. Not a tick nobody can account for.
• The day is shared by who is here. You stay in charge of every line.
• A person who leaves keeps nothing hostage. Their jobs stay the shop's.

Why it is by account

A person who has been removed keeps what was handed to them, and their name says they are no longer in the shop. Someone who signs in under their own account sees their own jobs. Nobody sees another shop's.

Where else this shows

• Jobs shows each job's status: New, Laid out or Checked, and who has it.
• Today's production says, one sentence for each person, how many jobs they laid out and checked today.