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[David]

Can I copy a job to a new job? Are trusses the same as cleats when talking about crates? Thanks for your help again.

[Support]

Hi David,

A timber truss is fabricated with bolts and timber connectors. The sides and ends of crates are held together by sheathing, joined to each frame member by a series of clinched nails. This panelized fabrication provides a strong, rigid framework. When the sides are combined with the base, ends, and top, the resulting trussed structure can support a variety of loads. You can find more by going to the Box & Crate Standards page on The Wooden Crates Organization site. I suggest looking at the Agriculture-HDBK-252 for more information.**

Jobs - unlike a Design in Crate Pro 5, a job can't be duplicated with all it's connected designs with a few clicks. If you duplicated a design already you'll note that other than the design number, EVERYTHING is duplicated including customer and dates. If you duplicate a job, in this version, you would have to go to each design and make sure the fields that needed to be changed were changed one at a time. If you missed a field, such as as not matching every customer field to the customer name in the job field, you'll get incorrect results in your totals.

I think this is a good suggestion and if you have time, would you add this idea to the Crate Pro feature requests so it can be reviewed for a future version?

The fastest way to do this is to create a new job. The go to each design you want to associate with that job, copy it and enter the job number in the job # field of the new design. Make sure your customer is correct and check the due dates!

**The Standards page is recently updated and now contains many searchable PDF's of commonly used standards and other important documents. Look for the blue dots in the icon next to each improved standard.