Jobs, orders and bulk orders

Every saved job is in the Jobs list. Everyone in the shop sees every job, and each says who has it. No shop sees another shop's.

The Jobs list

Press Jobs in the column, or Jobs and orders on the welcome card. Along the top are three views: By job, By order and By bulk order.

Each job shows its status (New, Laid out or Checked) and who has it. A job that has been put on a press shows where, by whom and when, and whether it has been fetched. A job with a customer proof link shows its newest link's state. See Send a customer a proof link.

On a job's row:

• Open opens it.
• Export .ppjob keeps a copy on your own computer as a file Studio can open again. It takes nobody's place as the job's holder.
• History lists every save of the job, with Go back to this. See Save a job and pick it up again.
• Put on a press… puts it on a press. See Put a job on a press.
• Download the print file hands you the job's print file by hand. See Put a job on a press.

Close goes back to Home.

Find a job

Find a job searches by any part of the job's name, the customer, the order number or a person's name.

Orders

An order groups the jobs for one customer.

1. In By order, type the customer's name.
2. Give it a due date.
3. Press Start an order.
4. Put a job in it from the job's Order box.

Orders with a due date come first, soonest first. Typing a customer's name in the Company box when you start a job also files it under that customer's order.

Why it matters for your shop

• One list, not a spreadsheet. The soonest job is first, and nobody has to ask who has a job: it says so.
• Nothing is typed twice. A customer typed in Company files the job under that customer's order.
• The job's story is on its row. Put on a press, fetched and when, approved by a customer: all on the line.

Bulk orders

Several files added at once are recorded as a bulk order, with one job for each run. The first save of a sheet from one offers that run's name. See Add a day's files at once.