Load Ticket Entry & Navigation

For LoadCalc Professional!, the Add/Edit Load Tickets Screen is the heart of the system. To access this screen, you can either click 'Tickets' on the Quick Access Toolbar or by clicking 'Load Tickets', 'Load Tickets' from the main drop-down menu.

If you are using the Unregistered Demo version of LoadCalc Professional! a pop-up message will remind you that the Unregistered Demo version will only allow you to enter up to 25 load tickets.

The window below will open to provide access to the Add/Edit Load Tickets screen.

There is one feature on this screen that you should familiarize yourself with first because it will help provide you with important and very useful information. In the top right-hand corner of this screen you will find a screen element entitled 'Calculate Sub-Totals By:' where you can control how the sub-totals are calculated as you enter load tickets. You can click on four options: 1) Tract Id, 2) Logger Id, 3) Hauler Id, 4) Mill Id and 5) Product Id. The white box below these choices is the area where the sub-totals will be displayed and the list of sub-totals will change based upon the selection you make above the box. It is fairly self-explanatory, but clicking on the Logger ID radio button will provide sub-totals by Logger Id. Clicking on Tract Id, will provide sub-totals by Tract Id and so on. You can change the sub-total method at any time and the sub-total box will automatically refresh to reflect the new sub-totals. Immediately below the sub-total box, you will see a daily total of the Delivered values for the date you are currently entering. This total will be the same no matter how you choose to display the sub-totals, but it will change based upon the date and the tickets you enter.

You can sort the grid at the bottom of the screen by clicking on the header name of any column to sort by that column. The grey triangle

will move to the column header that you click on to remind you of the current sorting column. The triangle will point in the direction of the sort. It points up to indicate the sort is Ascending, and it points down to indicate that the sort is Descending.

It is important to note that LoadCalc Professional! is designed to allow you to enter load tickets by date. You can enter tickets in any order you like, but the program is optimized for you to pre-sort your load tickets by date and then enter them into the system. You can change the date at any time by either entering a new date into the date field, or you can click on the small button at the end of the date field with the calendar icon

to interactively pick your date from a Pop-Up Calendar.

Additionally, you can change the date one day at a time by clicking one of the arrow keys

next to the Pop-Up Calendar button. Clicking the left arrow changes the date to one day previous to the current date. Clicking the right arrow changes the date to one day following the current date. This makes it very easy to move from one date to the next particularly if you have pre-sorted your load tickets.

Once you've selected a date, you can begin entering load tickets. You must complete all of the fields before the program will activate the 'Save' button so you can save the ticket you have entered. Each of the fields are described below:

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Date - Enter the load ticket date. You can click the

Calendar Pop-up button to select a date from a pop-up calendar, or you can click the

Previous and

Next buttons to move between dates one day at a time. The display grid at the bottom of the page and the Sub-Total window will be refreshed to reflect the Load Tickets found for the selected date.

•	Ticket # - If the load ticket you are entering has a load ticket number, enter this here. If the ticket does not have a number, enter a short description of the ticket that makes sense to you and will help you locate the actual ticket again later.

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Tract Id - Enter the tract id of a valid, active logger stored in the Tract List. You can click the button with the magnifying glass

to get a Pop-Up List to pick the tract id. If you enter a Tract Id that does not exist in the Tract List, you will be asked if you want to add the new Tract Id to the Tract List. If you click 'No', you will be returned to the Tract Id field to re-enter the Tract Id. If you click 'Yes', the Quick Add - Tract screen will appear where you can enter some basic information about the Tract Id.

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Logger Id - Enter the Logger Id of a valid, active logger stored in the Logger List. You can click the button with the magnifying glass

to get a Pop-Up List to pick the logger id. If you enter a Logger Id that does not exist in the Logger List, you will be asked if you want to add the new Logger Id to the Logger List. If you click 'No', you will be returned to the Logger Id field to re-enter the Logger Id. If you click 'Yes', the Quick Add - Logger screen will appear so you can enter some basic information about the Logger Id.

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Hauler Id - Enter the Hauler Id of a valid, active Hauler stored in the Hauler List. You can click the button with the magnifying glass

to get a Pop-Up List to pick the Hauler Id. If you enter a Hauler Id that does not exist in the Hauler List, you will be asked if you want to add the new Hauler Id to the Hauler List. If you click 'No', you will be returned to the Hauler Id field to re-enter the Hauler Id. If you click 'Yes', the Quick Add - Hauler screen will appear so you can enter some basic information about the Hauler Id.

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Mill Id - Enter the mill id of a valid, active logger stored in the Mill List. You can click the button with the magnifying glass

to get a Pop-Up List to pick the mill id. If you enter a Mill Id that does not exist in the Mill List, you will be asked if you want to add the new Mill Id to the Mill List. If you click 'No', you will be returned to the Mill Id field to re-enter the Mill Id. If you click 'Yes', the Quick Add - Mill screen will appear so you can enter some basic information about the Mill Id.

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Product Id - Enter the product id of a valid product stored in the Product List. You can click the button with the magnifying glass

to get a Pop-Up List to pick the product id. If you enter a Product Id that does not exist in the Product List, you will be asked if you want to add the new Product Id to the Product List. If you click 'No', you will be returned to the Product Id field to re-enter the Product Id. If you click 'Yes', the Quick Add - Product screen will appear where you can enter some basic information about the Logger Id.

•	Weight - Enter the value of the delivered weight recorded on the load ticket. Usually, this value is in tons.

You can click on the Ticket column header so that the sort arrow is pointing down. This should list your tickets in descending order so the last ticket you entered to always be at the top of the list.

Note the last column on the grid with the header 'Pd.' A check mark in this column indicates that the ticket has been marked as having been paid on the Clear Paid Tickets screen.

Once all of the fields have been entered, the 'Save' button should activate and you can click save to store the load ticket in the grid below. The system will check all of the fields once again to verify the accuracy of the data entry and prompt you if there are any errors that need to be corrected prior to saving. Once the save has been completed, the new load ticket will be displayed in the grid at the bottom of the screen.

If you are using the Unregistered Demo version of LoadCalc Professional!, each time you save a load ticket you will be reminded that the program will only store up to 25 tickets and how many more tickets you can save. After you've entered 25 tickets, the program will save no more load tickets.

We need to take a moment to discuss Settlement Rates. While you can certainly enter all of the possible combinations of Settlement Rates manually when you enter the Tract information on the Tract List screen, you may optionally set the Settlement Rates while entering Load Tickets. Settlement Rates are organized within LoadCalc Professional! based upon the unique combinations of Tract Id, Logger Id, Hauler Id, Mill Id, and Product Id entered on Load Tickets.

After you complete the entry of a Load Ticket, the program automatically checks to see if the particular combination you entered matches the Load Ticket already exists in the Tract Settlement Rates table. If the combination cannot be found, a new record will be created in the Settlement Rate table and you will be asked if you want to update the Settlement Rates at this time:

If you click the 'Yes' button, you will be presented with a special version of the Edit Settlement Rates screen that will only allow you to edit the rates, but not change any of the qualifier Id's. After you've completed the changes you want to make to the rates, click the 'Save' or 'Exit' button to return to the Add/Edit Load Tickets screen.

This option to enter Settlement Rates during the entering of Load Tickets is only available when new, unique combinations are detected. If a Settlement Rate record has previously been created, the program will not prompt you to update the rates. To change Settlement Rates at any time after the Settlement Rate record has been created, you must go to the Tract Settlement Rates screen.

If you need to Edit a Load Ticket, locate the ticket in the grid at the bottom of the screen and either double-click on any column of the load ticket, or click on the 'Edit' button. This will open the Edit Load Tickets screen to provide you with a way to edit any part of the saved load ticket.

If you attempt to edit a ticket that has previously been marked as having been paid on the Clear Paid Tickets screen, then a message will appear on the screen indicating that the ticket has been cleared and all the fields will be disabled to prevent editing. If you happen to need to edit a ticket that has already been cleared, you will need to return to the Clear Paid Tickets screen and unclear the ticket. Tickets that you have received payment for should not be changed and this feature prevents that from happening accidentally.

If you need to Delete a Load Ticket, click on the ticket you want to delete in the grid at the bottom of the screen and then click the 'Delete' button. You will be prompted to confirm whether you really want to delete the selected ticket. If you confirm the deletion, you will be asked one more time if you are absolutely sure that you want to permanently delete this ticket. If you confirm the deletion a second time, the ticket will be removed from the grid and deleted from the Load Ticket table. Tract Production Totals will be reduced to reflect the amount of the deleted delivered weight.

To print a quick list of the load tickets entered for a single date, click the 'Print' button. You will be asked to preview, print or export the report. The report will be sorted the same as the grid at the bottom of the screen.