Groups
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Groups
Groups are a way to categorise products, for example, red meat, fish or bread.
Groups have three purposes:
1.
To report on totals for all products per group. For example, sales value for all products in the
Beef Group.
2.
You can design a keyboard with the top level keyboard with just the Group keys, see Touch
Menus (Keyboards). For example, Fruit & Veg, Meats and so on. Each Group key is a link to
another keyboard with either a subgroup or all products in that group. For example. Meat
> Beef > Sirloin Steak.
3.
You can assign an operator role to a group so that a particular product (for instance
alcohol or tobacco products) can only be sold by an operator with that role.
Prerequisites
If your group is to have adverts, then it is advisable to load the media first, especially if the
group is to be used as a template for other groups (see Copying a Group).
To Create a New (top level) Group
1.
Press >
>
2.
Press
New
.
3.
Enter the details for each of the following fields:
Group ID
You can have up to 999,999 groups.
When you save a new group, if the Group ID number is already used or set to 0, the next
available valid number is assigned.
Description
The title of the group.
Group ID (Parent Group)
If the group is a sub-group, this shows the title of the Parent Group.
