Editing Work Order Miscellaneous Costs

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You create or modify work order miscellaneous cost records using the miscellaneous cost editor. The usual way to open the editor is to click New Miscellaneous Cost or Edit in the View section of Coding Definitions | Work Orders | Miscellaneous Costs.

The editor window contains the following:

Details section: Lists basic information about the record.

Code: A brief code to identify this record. No two records may have the same code.

Description: A longer description of the miscellaneous cost.

Cost: The expected cost of the expense. In many cases, you may leave this blank; you will fill in the real cost when you actually use this record in a work order.

Cost Center: The cost center to be associated with costs of this nature. For more on cost centers, see Cost Centers.

Comments: Any comments you want to associate with the miscellaneous cost.

Task Demand Miscellaneous Costs section: Lists tasks that include a demand that involves this miscellaneous costs record. For more information, see Tasks.

Save: Saves the current record. The editor window stays open in case you want to make more changes to the same record.

Save & New: Saves the current record and sets up the window for you to enter a new record. Fields in the new record will be blank or set to default values.

Save & Close: Saves the current record and closes the editor window.

Cancel: Closes the window without saving any changes you've made to the record since the last time you saved. When you Save the record, the Cancel button changes to Close, indicating that you can safely close the window without losing any changes.

Close: Closes the window. This button only appears after you've saved changes with Save or before you've entered any data at all. Otherwise, the button is labeled Cancel.

For more information on work order miscellaneous records, see Work Order Miscellaneous Costs. For information on viewing work order miscellaneous records, see Viewing Work Order Miscellaneous Costs. For more on editors in general, see Using Editors.

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