General Catalogue

Where common Prestartr setting are located

The General Catalogue.

In the Catalogues Module, there are seven different sections.

The General Catalogue is a catch-all location with common settings used in Prestartr.

Details on each option in the General Catalogue is displayed below.

Internal Companies

 

The Internal Companies section of the General Catalogue will display the available records from the Companies module.

You can search with the search bar at the top to find a specific Company.

You can adjust the amount of displayed companies at the bottom by clicking the displayed number to the right of the current page.

You can adjust it to display 10, 20, or 50 companies at a time.

To mark a Company as an Internal Company, click the checkbox to the left of the Company name.

Click Save Internal Companies to save these changes.


 
 

Shift Rules

When creating a Job, the default settings in the Shift Rules section will be populated.

The following settings can be adjusted as desired:

  • Default Start Time
  • Default End Time
  • Default Lunch Start Time
  • Default Lunch End Time
  • Default Lunch Break Duration (Hrs)
  • Default Lunch Break Days
  • Default minimum Shift Duration
  • Default Schedule Night Start Time
  • Default Schedule Night End Time

Click Save Shift Rule to save any updates and changes you make.

 
 

Scheduling Rules

The Scheduling Rules section of the General Catalogue will display the default Start and End time when creating a Schedule

 
 

Cost Control Settings

The Cost Control Settings section of the General Catalogue is where you can enable or disable the ability to set Job Budget Line Quantities to zero.

Check or uncheck the box to enable or disable this function.

Click Save Cost Control Settings to save these changes.

 
 

Plant Minimum Hours

The Plant Minimum Hours section of the General Catalogue is where you can set a Minimum number of hours against either Plant Groups or specific Plant.

Click the Edit button to add to either section.


While Editing the Plant Minimum Hours, you can add, edit or delete lines from the Group  or Plant list.

Click Add New Line to add a blank entry to either section.

Adjust the drop-down fields and enter the Minimum hours as needed.

Click Save to save new entries or updates to exisiting lines.

To delete an entry, click the Rubbish icon to the left of the desired line.


 
 

Job Group Entities

The purpose of the Job Group Entity is to provide unique ABN, Email. and Address information when creating an invoice for a Job in one of these groups. This is commonly done when a company has invoicing requirements per geographic region or by invoice type.

Job Group Entities are selectable when creating or editing a Job Group.

 
 

Rate Rules

The Rate Rules section of the General Catalogue contains the details used on Form Formula Fields.

To add a new Rate Type, click Create Rate Rules.

You can define the follow information:

  • Type
  • Name
  • Rate
  • Start Time
  • End Time
  • Minimum Allowance Hours
  • Labour Type

Click the Save icon to confirm the new Rate Rule.