Ag Leader SMS Basic and Advanced Manual - Manual (Page 77)

Jobs and Tasks
About Jobs and Tasks
The software uses what we call Jobs and Tasks to help organize and summarize your field operations and make
setting up field devices, such as your monitor, easier. A Job is defined as a grouping of one or more Tasks that you
plan to perform during a certain time span. A Task is defined as one or more operations that are planned to occur in a
specific field.
The purpose of Jobs and Tasks is to provide planning and tracking of operations that will occur during the crop
production cycle. An example would be planning your entire spring planting. You would first write all your planting
prescriptions for all your fields that will be planted, then create a Job called "Spring 2004 Planting" and then add
Tasks, i.e. for each field you created a prescription for , to the Job. Now you have a record of what your plan for
planting your 2004 crop is, and if you log as-applied data with a monitor system and read it into the software, the
actual data will link up with the planned data and can be viewed in a summary so that you can compare your planned
vs actual results. Using Jobs you can also export all your assigned tasks at one time to your field device, so if you
have assigned 50 Tasks (fields) to a Job you can export their prescriptions, boundaries, or setup all in one simple
process.
Jobs and Tasks are also shown in the Calendar View. The planned time span of the Job will be displayed and when
the Job event is selected in the calendar, a summary is displayed that list all the Tasks that are assigned to the Job
and various properties of those tasks. The actual data that is logged and related to the Job and Task will also be
displayed in the calendar as its own event, based on the grouping and filtering that you have set for the Calendar
View, so that you can visually see what was planned for the Job vs the actual time span of the operations.
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Select a topic below on Jobs/Tasks:
Job/Task Summary Document Window
Job Summary Items
Job/Task Summary Item Pairs
Creating and Editing Jobs and Tasks
Jobs and Tasks can be created several different ways. Jobs and Tasks can come from a field device such as a
monitor, they can be manually created, or you can create a Task template that will automatically create Tasks or sort
data to existing Tasks when you run it.
Select a topic below on Jobs/Tasks:
Job Viewer
Job Editor
Task Editor
Define Task Sorting Template
How to create a Job and Task(s)
Exporting Jobs and Tasks
Jobs and Tasks can be used as a way to organize exports for a field device such as a monitor. It also provides a way
to export data in bulk, such as all the prescriptions for all the fields that you plan to work during an operation such as
planting. It also can export the setup information to provide such information as Field Names and boundaries.
Select a topic below on Jobs/Tasks:
Select Job Export Format
Export Setup File
How to export a Job
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