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Shared Print Operations (SPO) | ID:BG_027

This tutorial details the Shared Print Operations (SPO) tab, where administrators, print operators and other approved users can access information related to orders placed on your storefront. Prior to exploring the SPO tab in Infigo's admin area, we will simulate placing an order on our storefront.

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This tutorial

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details the shared print operations tab,
where administrators,

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print operators and other approved users
can access information

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related to orders
placed on your storefront.

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Prior
to exploring the Shared Print Operations

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tab, which is in the administration area,
we're going to simulate

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placing an order on our storefront.

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So the stage I'm at here,

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I've gone to my storefront
and added something to the basket

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and we're ready to actually proceed
through our checkout process.

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If I go to checkout,
we can then specify an address.

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You can see I've got a really
realistic address put in the test here.

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We can also put in a new address,
if we like,

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which will give us these entries.

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And we have the ability to use
the same address for delivery and billing.

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Or we can utilize
different addresses for both.

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Clicking

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Continue will take you to the delivery
method screen

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that will utilize your configured delivery
methods that we've seen in a previous

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tutorial video

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and then clicking

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next again
will take you to the payment information.

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And again,
this is going to be with your already

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configured payment
methods on your particular storefront.

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In our case,
and on any default storefronts,

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it will just be the inputs of a purchase
order number.

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However,
if you've set up some additional payments

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via a plugin,
so let's say Stripe or PayPal,

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you'll get those options
appearing here as well.

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Then takes you

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to a screen to show you the order summary.

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So a subtotal of the items delivery.

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Any VAT that's been set up
which is not in this particular case.

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And then in order total,

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then all we do is hit confirm

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and we get taken to a screen
which shows us a reference number.

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And if our users logged
in, we also have the ability to see

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the additional order details
which are then

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saved to their account as well.

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Now we're going to go into the admin
area of Infigo and see what

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actually happens with that order
that's been submitted.

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So we're going to go straight
into the shared

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print operations tab,

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and the first thing we're going to do
is try and locate our job.

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So an order placed on your storefront

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could be made up
of multiple different product types.

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So we, if we recall from previous videos,
we have stock products,

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static PDF products, mega edit products.

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These

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ordered
products will be separated into tabs

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containing details
separated by product types.

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And these are these tabs
on the top of the screen here.

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So we've got variable products,
which relates

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to the products generated via
the feature editor.

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So that's slowly being phased out in

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in favor of mega edit.

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We have static products that sell static

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PDF products
that we've seen in a previous tutorial,

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Multipart products.

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So that's our custom
PDF uploads primarily.

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And then we have other orders,
which at this stage

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is just the remaining stock products.

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And then lastly, we have mega
added products, which is of course

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products generated through the mega
edit editor.

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So the order

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that we just put through
only had one stock product in it.

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So that means that particular item should
appear in the other orders section here.

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And you can see that

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in this particular case is a few orders
being put through the particular

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order that we were looking at
will be the most recent.

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So if I go back to my order screen,
for example, we can see

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that the order number was six,
seven, six one.

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We have an associated order number here,

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along with

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which customer ordered it.

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The products
that we're particularly looking at here,

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when it was ordered,
when it's due, and the type of delivery

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this is just summary information
on that particular order.

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If we want to view

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some additional information
on that particular order,

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then we can click on the plus icon
next to that particular line.

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And it will take us to some additional
details that will go through in a moment.

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So let's go

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through this screen table by table.

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So the customer table here
that shows some general details

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on the storefront customer
placing that particular order.

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Customer details
can be entered manually from this table

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if necessary.

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We have the shipping address
and we have the billing address.

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These were specified by the customer
during the checkout process.

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And again, we can source edit
these once the order has been placed.

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If we need to do so,
the next entry down is the product

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that's associated
with this particular order line.

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So this section may have a slightly

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different appearance
based on the type of product.

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So where we've just got a stock product,
so a pick and pack

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product,
there's no associated artwork with that.

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You're not going to actually need
any PDF document to give to the printer.

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So what we're actually getting information
wise from here is fairly simple.

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However, if I go to a

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different product type one,
which does require some artwork.

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So let's see if we've got another one

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put through somewhere on our

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storefronts.

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This one here, for example.

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This is a multiple product
which is part of a different order.

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However, being a multi multipart product,
there should be a PDF associated with it.

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So if I go into the details of that order

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this time we'll see
that our product section has

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some associated buttons with it
where we can download the output pdf

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if we need to do so, or
if we've lost that PDF for whatever reason

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or it's not available,
we can get it to recreate the PDF as well.

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So as you see an action,
if I click download

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PDF, it will give me the artwork
which in this case has been uploaded

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by the customer

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and that's ready for

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me to utilize.

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So we've got the contact user section
so the customer can be contacted

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from this area
either via a private message,

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so they'll be directly contacted via
a private message or via

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the email address that they've supplied
as part of their account.

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This is useful
if any additional information is required

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by the print operator
in order to carry out that particular job.

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Next down, we have shipping information.

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So delivery or shipping
details are provided in this area.

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That includes
the selected delivery method.

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It shows the item
and it shows the job weight.

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So this is obviously reliant on product
weights being specified

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as part of the product set up,
which in this case

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we don't have.

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Additionally, in here, you can get
the expected dispatch and delivery dates.

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Those are generated using information
specified on your delivery settings.

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If a tracking number is generated
or is obtained,

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the administrator or the print operator
can paste it into here

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to allow all parties
to track that particular order.

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The details

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section is an area for administrative
only notes.

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These will be saved with the order,
but generally not visible

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to the customer.

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The download section.

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So the shared print operations
automatically generate

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several documents
containing critical order based detail.

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So the default versions of these documents
are Infigo branded.

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So let's open one of these up.

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For example, the invoice.

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So they’re Infigo branded by default
and they contain

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some default and standard job information.

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It is possible to customize the content
and branding of these documents.

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Please contact Infigo
support for some assistance with this

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if you need to do so.

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Next down is the order table.

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So this is general order details,
including the storefront of origin.

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So this is worth keeping in mind actually,
that the shared print operations

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will show you the outputs from all of
the storefronts on your platform.

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So if your print operators
are accessing this,

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they may need to print jobs from
every single storefront, not just one.

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So it does combine them all.

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Hence, in the order section
it shows which storefront this came from.

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We do have the ability to enable a setting

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which limits the orders
to just this particular storefront.

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So the one that you currently logged into,
so you don't see the orders

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from additional storefronts.

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So we get to this setting
by going to the Infigo.

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Settings area,
so I can just type this in here

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in the settings.

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This screen contains

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a large amount of settings
for quite specific scenarios.

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The one I'm looking for in this particular
case is just a little bit down

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limit storefront
admins to their own storefront.

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Now before I click

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Save on this, just to see the difference
in what we're going to show.

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So for example,
when we don't have the option saved,

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we have a storefront selector
and we have the ability

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to see jobs from every storefront.

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If I go ahead and save this

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and then
go to our shared print operations,

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that option to choose between
the storefront has now disappeared,

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and the only orders
it will show me are ones from this

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particular storefront.

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It will also

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show you the payment details
and the current order status.

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These details can be manually amended
from this table

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if necessary.

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We have print locations and folders.

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So the concept of hot folders
and print locations

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is what I routing of specific jobs

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to specific locations.

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A print location by definition should be

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thought of as a separate location
where production happens.

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Hot folders are then created
and assigned to a print location

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so that you can manage
what folder jobs will be pushed into

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for that specific location.

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Now, in terms of the shared
print operation section, you can select

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from the list of print locations
or hot folders

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which an administrator
has defined elsewhere in Infigo

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and this is covered
in a different tutorial.

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And then finally

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we have the ability to change status.

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So this shows the current status of
the job that we're currently looking at.

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With the ability
to update to a new status.

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This will be used, for example,
if a job is to be marked

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as printed or to be marked as shipped.

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This may trigger additional actions
such as sending an email to the customer.

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And again, email templates are covered
in a different tutorial video.

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In addition, a history of status changes
can be reviewed.

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This allows team members
to see how a job has progressed

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throughout the system.

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So if I want to change the status
of this job, for example,

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let's say it's been packaged
and it's out the door.

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I can change that to shipped.

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You can

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see the color of that change,
the status of that's changed.

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The overall order line should change
when we refresh the page

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and we can also see the history

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of the order.

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One or two final thoughts on the shared

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print operations,
which I think you should know.

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So first of all,
we do have the ability to multi select

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order lines to change the status on mass.

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So if you don't want to go through
each one of these individually, scroll

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all the way down to that table
to change status.

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You can multi select the lines in here.

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If you want to site all entries,
you can click on that box there

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and then you have the ability to change

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status of selection.

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So for example,
if I were to change those, to shipped

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change status

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and those are now

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not appearing in that list.

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Now, this leads me on to another point.

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It's important that I explain that once
an order has been set to shipped,

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it will still be available
on shared print operations

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until all jobs as part of that order
are set to shipped.

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At which point
the entire order will disappear.

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So you have seen here, for example,
that I just changed those to shipped.

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So that's disappeared.

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That's
because they constitute the entire order.

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This doesn't mean we can't view orders
that have already been completed.

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So we do have these filter options here
which allow us to search

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through all of the entries
within the shared print operations.

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So, for example,
if I wanted to see details on completed

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orders, I can look at the complete
section and the order status

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and I've got job status as well.

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Or I could say, for example,

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shipped,

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and that will show me

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the appropriate entries
and allow me to access

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the same range of information
that we could before.

 

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