Jim2® Business Engine Help File

Stock must be set up prior to adding meters, including macro descriptions on the Machines tab.

 

Example Macros

{{Project.Meter.Counter Name" "}}{{"Last Read - "Project.Meter.Job.Previous Job.Meter Read" "}}{{"Last Estimated Read - "Project.Meter.Job.Previous Job.Estimated Meter Read" "}}{{Project.Meter.Job.Previous Job.Date Due" "}}{{"Current Read - "Project.Meter.Job.Meter Read" "}}{{"Estimated Read - "Project.Meter.Job.Estimated Meter Read" "}}{{"Prints - "Project.Meter.Job.Qty" "}}{{"Estimated Prints - "Project.Meter.Job.Estimated Qty" "}}

 

This machine has a black meter and a colour meter. It has a minimum charge of $50 on the black meter only per month. There is no minimum dollar amount for colour. No estimates/averages will be calculated against this machine. The machine will have service reads. The minimum charge is linked to the black meter only.

 

 

We receive a reading of 53,000 for black and 10,400 for colour, and the following job is created:

 

 

If we don't have kitting turned on in Options, a similar result occurs.

 

It is worth noting that the macro for the Min Charge stock has the following value:

 

{{Project.Meter.Counter Name" = "}}{{Project.Meter.Min - Base TF" "}}{{"for "Project.Meter.Linked Meter.Counter Name}}

 

We can see that the macro uses the .Linked Meter.Counter Name to display the fact that this minimum only applies to black.

 

In Cost Per Copy with Minimum Dollar Amount, where the minimum charge was not linked, this expression would have evaluated to nothing, and so it didn’t display for at all.

 

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