Labour Cost Import

This window is used to initiate the importing of Labour Cost Codes from the costing ledger on an ad hoc basis.

Prerequisites

  • No prerequisites

Rules and Guidelines

  • The file format is .csv
  • The file holds 2 Labour Costing Codes:
Labour Costing Code 1 10 alphanumeric characters
Labour Costing Code 2

35 alphanumeric characters

 

  • If no description is attached to the Labour Cost Code, the record is still imported.
  • If there is no Job Number the record is not imported.
  • On completion, all the jobs in the costing ledger for the selected Labour Cost Code will have been imported into Preceda overriding any previous values.
  • An extra record with a blank Job Number and the description of No Job Number is automatically generated and imported.

Field Information

Note: This process may take a while.

Specify the path to the file to be imported, or use the Browse button to locate the file.

  • The file to be imported must be either a .txt or .csv file.

 

Select the Labour Cost Code level that labour costs are to be imported.

1 LCOST1
2 LCOST2

 

During the running of this process

Y

A report is produced without importing the records and is used to verify entries before importing.
N

A report is produced and the import is run.

 

This option disables the logging of the entries to the control file maintenance report.

Y

Disable the logging of entries to the Control File Maintenance report
N

Do not disable the logging of entries to the Control File Maintenance report

 

Select Run Process to submit the job for processing.