Note: This help system contains standard information, some of which might not apply to your franchise. There might be a help file specific to your Autoline configuration. It could be either in the help system specific to your manufacturer, or displayed when you click the Help button on the relevant form or menu.
The labour codes/times maintenance form (its exact title depends on your system configuration) enables you to create and amend labour time codes.
What do you want to do?
Note: The exact title of this form depends on your system configuration.
This form is displayed when you select the Labour times maintenance option from the Labour Code menu. It enables you to view levels and labour codes and it provides access to facilities to amend them. (The Labour times maintenance option might be worded differently, Labour code maintenance for example, depending on your Autoline configuration.)
TABS:
CHECK BOX:
In level: If this check box is selected, the Search button populates the Times grid with labour codes belonging to the selected Levels grid row. If it is cleared, the Search button populates the Times grid with all labour codes in the labour times file.
Times grid:
This grid is populated with labour codes (meeting your Filter tab criteria) belonging to the selected Levels grid row when you click Search.
Tip: When you have browsed to the bottom of the levels hierarchy, you can double-click a row in the Levels grid to populate the Times grid.
The descriptions of all the parent levels of the contents of the grid appear in a line of text above the grid <in angle brackets>.
Model: Identifies a vehicle model
Note: The Model and Time columns are displayed only if the Show times for option button on the Filter tab is selected when you click Search.
Labour code: Identifies the work operation
Description: Describes the work operation
Time: How long the work operation on this vehicle model is expected to take
Create...: Enables you to create a new level using a blank form
Edit...: Enables you to amend the Description of the selected grid row
Delete: Prompts you to confirm that you want to delete the selected labour code
Copy...: Enables you to create a new level using data from the selected grid row
Change times...: Enables you to amend the labour codes and labour times of the selected grid row
PUSH BUTTONS:
Exit: Returns you to the Labour Code menu
Help: Displays this help topic in a web browser
Models: Enables you to find a vehicle model to use as a search filter criterion (by populating the Model box on the Filter tab). It also enables you to create and delete model code records.
Search: Populates the Times grid with all labour codes within the selected level. For example, if you have browsed down one level so that the Levels grid displays level-2 assemblies, the Search button populates the Times grid with all labour codes that belong to the selected assembly, including all its sub-assemblies and their components.
Note: When you click Search, the contents of the Times grid depend on whether the Show times for option button or the Show codes only option button on the Filter tab is selected. Additionally, if the Show codes only option button is selected, search results depend on whether the In level check box is selected.
More: Refreshes the Times grid with more results (enabled only after you click Search)
Reset: Clears the Times grid, displays the top-most level in the Levels grid, and clears the Filter tab.
This tab enables you to browse levels from the top-most level down to the component level.
Tip: For more information about levels, see Levels and Labour Codes.
GRID:
The second column heading (denoted [Level name] here) changes to the name of the selected sub-level when you either double-click a grid row or you click Down Level. When you click Up Level, the column heading changes back correspondingly.
Tip: Double-click a Levels grid row to browse down one level. All its parent levels appear <enclosed by angle brackets> above the grid.
Level code: Identifies a level in the hierarchy of the structure in which individual labour operations sit at the bottom
[Level name]: Defines the level in the hierarchy of the structure in English
Levels grid SHORTCUT MENU:
Create...: Enables you to create a new level using a blank form
Edit...: Enables you to amend the description of the selected grid row (the text in the second column/cell)
Delete: Prompts you to confirm that you want to delete the selected level
Copy...: Enables you to create a new level using data from the selected grid row
Levels Tab PUSH BUTTONS:
Up Level: Returns you to the parent level of the levels displayed in the grid. (Enabled only after you browse to a sub-level.)
Down Level: Refreshes the grid with sub-levels of the level represented by the selected grid row. (Enabled only when a grid row is selected.)
This tab enables you to find a specific code by searching for labour codes that meet one or more criteria that you specify.
Labour code: Identifies the category of work
Tip: You can enter a partial Labour code.
Description: Describes the work entailed in the Labour code
Tip: You can enter a partial Description to find only labour codes containing (for example) a particular word in their descriptions.
Operation time: Expected labour time to complete this category of work
Model: Specific model of vehicle (or all models)
Note: Model is enabled only when the Show times for option button is selected.
OPTION BUTTONS:
Show times for --> If this is selected when you click Search, results displayed in the Times grid are limited to a specific Model (or all models) and the Times grid has the columns Model, labour code, Description, and Time.
Show codes only: If this is selected when you click Search, results displayed in the Times grid are limited to Labour code and Description and the Times grid has only those two columns.
CHECK BOX:
Unused codes only: If this check box is selected, the Times grid displays only labour codes not used by any vehicle model. (Enabled only when the Show codes only option button is selected.)
This process is the first stage common to most procedures you use to maintain labour time codes.
To browse to a level:
Select the Manufacturer systems Module and the appropriate Company from the Autoline Master menu.
The Operations menu is displayed.
Select the Labour code menu option.
Note: The Labour code menu option might be differently worded in your system. LTS code menu is a typical alternative.
The Labour Code menu is displayed.
Select the Labour times maintenance option. (It might be worded differently, Labour code maintenance for example, depending on your Autoline configuration.)
The labour codes/times maintenance form is displayed and the top-most level populates the Levels grid.
If you want to select a sub-level, double-click the Levels grid row that is its parent or click the Down Level button with that grid row selected.
One of two things happens:
If you double-clicked any level other than a component (the level immediately above labour codes), the constituent sub-levels of that parent level populate the Levels grid.
If you double-clicked a component (the level immediately above labour codes), the constituent labour codes of that component populate the Times grid while the Levels grid remains unchanged.
To delete a level:
On the labour codes/times maintenance form, Browse to the level you want to delete, right-click the Levels grid row to be deleted, and select Delete from the shortcut menu.
A Delete this level? dialog box displays the following message:
Warning: Do you want to permanently delete this level [level code] and all levels, codes and times contained within it?
Click Yes.
The selected level, including its contained sub-levels and labour codes, is deleted and you are returned to the labour codes/times maintenance form with the deleted row removed from the Levels grid.
The Filter tab on the labour codes/times maintenance form provides several ways of finding a labour code record.
To find a labour code using filtered search, do one or more of the following:
If you want to find a specific labour code (or you know one or more of its initial characters), type it into the Labour code box and click Search.
The Times grid is populated with the labour code records you specified or, where you typed only the initial part of the labour code, it is populated with all labour codes whose initial characters match those you typed.
If you want to find all labour code records whose descriptions contain a particular word or sequence of words, type that text into the Description box and click Search.
The Times grid is populated with labour code records whose Description fields contain the word or words you typed.
If you want to find all labour code records with a particular labour time, type it into the Operation time box as hours and a decimal fraction of an hour (for example, 0.5 for half an hour) and click Search.
The Times grid is populated with labour code records whose Operation time fields match the labour time you typed.
If you want to find all labour code records applicable to a particular vehicle model, select the Show times for option button and select the vehicle model from the Model drop-down list and click Search.
The Times grid is populated with labour code records applicable to the selected vehicle model.
However, if you cannot easily identify the model you want in the Model drop-down list, follow the procedure Finding a Model Code Record. That procedure returns you to the labour codes/times maintenance form with the Show times for option button on the Filter tab automatically selected and your selected model in the Model box.
Note: You can combine all filter criteria except Show items for and Show codes only, which are mutually exclusive.
