1. Speak with your system admin to be sure that this feature covers your time tracking and production requirements.
2. Click Admin, then click Config Settings, then Config Settings.
3. Search for the config setting called "allow batch work order segments."
4. Enter a value of 1 and Click Set.
5. Navigate to an open work order.
6. Click the Start Work button to track time spent on the job.
7. After choosing the appropriate work location, go to the field called Batch Work Order Add and start typing in and selecting the orders you want to include in this timestamp.
8. After batch adding the orders, go down to the "Add Time & Close At Once" section to add all of the time at once.
9. In this option, add the total "passive time" to see how the time divides among all of the work orders.
10. Go to the View Work report to see all time spent on jobs across the entire production floor by clicking Production, then Mgmt, then View Work.
11. Listed at the top of the report, review the Passive Time columns (Passive Start, Passive Stop, Passive Time in minutes, and Passive Time in hours).
12. Review the "Time Spent" columns, showing in both minutes and hours, to see the actual time spent per job.
13. If you accidentally added an order in the batch that shouldn't have been, delete timestamps and Cetec ERP will automatically recalculate the actual time spent across each order.
14. To delete one of the orders in the batch you added, click into that work order from the View Work report.
15. Once in that work order, click on the History tab.
16. Go to the time you just logged as part of the batch work, and click the blue Delete link on the right side of that line.
17. Go back to the View Work report and refresh the page (click ctrl + r) to see that that work order has been removed.
18. If you'd like to edit the time spent on the batch, edit the Passive Start and Passive Stop text fields (note that only the top work order of the batch is available for editing).
19. Changing the passive start or stop time for that top order will cause the start/stop time to recalculate on all orders from that batch.
20. To see what a batch of jobs has active work looks like, go to a work order and click Start Work.
21. On the Start Work pop-up window, be sure the work location is correct.
22. Enter all of the work orders in your batch.
23. Click Start Work to create open time segments that will be tracked in real time.
24. Click into one of the work orders from the batch and go down to the Active Time section.
25. In the "Batch" column, confirm it says "Yes," indicating that this active work is part of a batch of jobs.
26. Click Stop Work on any of the jobs to stop work on the other jobs in the batch as well.
27. Click into any of the work orders that were included in the batch to see that the Active Time section now indicates "No Active Work."