Job Grid Selections enables you to select what job fields you would like to see in the Manufacturing Orders grid.  You can also select Job User Fields.  

If you are displaying notes in the job grid, you have the option of displaying the all the lines of the notes instead of just one line.  To display multiple notes lines, select View | Show Notes Lines set a check mark on the selection in the menu.  If the menu item is already checked, selecting View | Show Notes Lines will uncheck the option.

You can optionally display a blank job grid (i.e. a search is not run) when you first enter into Mfg Orders Job Grid.  This option speeds up the opening of the Mfg Orders Job Grid and enables you to select a search to run as required.  The default option is to run a search.  You till have the option to run a default search that can be specified using View | Default Search.  The default search is then automatically executed each time you open Mfg Orders Job grid.

You can also use a search footer to search the job grid for text.

To access Job Grid Selections, select View | Job Grid Selections from the Manufacturing Orders Job Grid screen.

The following screen appears:

The left list box Selection Available lists the fields that are available but currently not displayed in the job grid.  The right list box Selections to Display lists the fields that are currently displayed.  If you have any job user fields defined, they are also listed automatically in the appropriate list box.

The Selections to Display orders the columns of the job grid.  That is, the first item in the list box is column 1 of the job grid, the second item is column 2, and so on.  You can reorder the Selections to Display by dragging and dropping the fields in the Selections to Display list box in the order you want the fields to be displayed in the job grid. 

Fields that end with a "(R)" are read only fields and cannot be edited by the Edit Job Header. 

You can drag and drop fields to/from each list box or use the buttons to make your selections.  Note that you must display the Order Number field; DMS will not allow you to remove it from the Selections to Display list.

The Unless selected in the job search, exclude history jobs enables you to exclude history jobs when you first enter into the Manufacturing Orders screen.  If this field is not checked, history jobs will be included in the job grid.  If you do have this item checked, you can still select to see history jobs by using Manufacturing Orders Searching and Filtering. 

Similarly, the Unless selected in the job search, exclude template jobs enables you to exclude template jobs when you first enter into the Manufacturing Orders screen.  If this field is not checked, template jobs will be included in the job grid.  If you do have this item checked, you can still select to see template jobs by using Manufacturing Orders Searching and Filtering. 

Typically you want to exclude both history and template jobs when you first enter Manufacturing Orders as this will speed up the loading and display of jobs.  That is, Unless selected in the search, exclude history jobs and Unless selected in the search, exclude template jobs are usually checked as in the above example in order to speed up the search.

The Display a blank job grid on initial entry (no search) enables you to display a blank job grid when you first enter into Mfg Orders Job Grid.  If selected, the job grid will not display any jobs when you first enter into Mfg Orders Job Grid.  If unchecked, the default search will be performed before the job grid is displayed.

Once you have made your selections, click OK to save and exit or click Cancel to ignore the changes and exit. 

Note that if you click OK, the new fields are displayed in the job grid and the grid column widths change to the default setting.  You can resize the columns by positioning the mouse over the bar between the columns in the heading and drag the column to the desired with.  For example, in the screen below if you wanted to increase or decrease the column width of the Order Number, you would position the mouse on the bar between Order Number and Job Identification (circled in red below) and drag the column to the desired with. 

If you exit normally from Manufacturing Orders, all job grid selections and column widths are saved for you automatically.

You have the option of displaying and using a "search footer" at the bottom of the grid by selecting View | Search Footer.  The search footer will search for the text you have entered for all displayed columns in the job grid.  The search text can be dates, test, numbers, etc. 

Current operation information can be displayed in the Job Grid.  The current operation of a job is the first blank, in queue, or in process operation in the job's routing.  Current operation information cannot be edited in the job grid.  Fields that can be displayed for the current operation are:

1. Current Op Seq
2. Current Op Ident
3. Current Op Resource
4. Current Op Description
5. Current Op End Date
6. Current Op Start Date
7. Current Op Status

Search Footer

The search footer is displayed only for the current session; when you close Manufacturing Orders and re-enter Manufacturing Orders again the search footer will not be displayed.  The screen example below shows Manufacturing Orders Job Grid with the search footer at the bottom of the job grid:

When you enter text the Find Next and Find Previous buttons are activated enabling you to look forwards or backward through the grid.  In the example below the search text "WH-LOCAL" was entered:

If you enter text that does not exist in the grid, the text has a red background to let you know right away that a match does not exist.  The example below shows the appearance of the search footer when a match does not exist:

To close the search footer, click on the button on the search footer.