How to set up OpenJanela for a new company (setup order checklist: where to start, first steps, what comes first)
Setting up a new company means filling in lists that point at each other: a part points at its family and its cost group, an option choice points at a part, a rule points at parts, options and matrices. If you create something before the thing it points at, OpenJanela saves a 0 or a […]
How to check a new setup works: quote, price, confirm, batch and print one item (setup test)
Before users start quoting, push one item of every series through the whole flow: quote, price, confirm, schedule, batch, shop paperwork and a scan at a station. Each step proves a different part of the setup, and the table below says where to look when one fails. Before you start All the earlier setup steps […]
How to set up a new series (product line) step by step: header, shapes, openings, designs, sub-routines
A series is a product line, for example a casement window or a patio door system. It says which shapes and openings can be built, its sizes and units, how openings and designs are priced, and (through its rules) which parts go into it. A sub-routine is a series that is never sold; it holds […]
How to add the first rules to a series (offer options, add parts and profiles, route to stations, test the rules)
Rules turn a drawn window into a bill of materials and a price. Each rule belongs to one series (or sub-routine) and says, for one level of the product (frame, sash, glass, the whole unit): add this part, offer this option, use this matrix, send the following parts to this station. Rules are edited on […]
How to set up production lines and stations (line-station routing, shifts, stages, station buffer, saws)
A production line is the path a unit is built on; a station is one work step on it (cutting, welding, glazing, packing). Parts, option choices and rules send each piece of work to a line and a station, and scheduling needs the line’s shifts to find room. Set these up before parts and rules. […]
How to set up parts and profiles in OJ Setup (add a new part: stock code, family, type, cost group, price group, units)
A part is anything that goes into a product or onto an order: a profile, a screw, a glass sheet, a labour item. Rules, option choices and glass types all point at parts, so parts come before them. Add one part at a time on the Parts screen, or many at once from a spreadsheet. […]
How to set up part families and suppliers (add a new part family or supplier, family markup, include in price and cost)
A supplier is a company you buy from. A part family is a group of similar parts (Screws, Hardware, Frame Profiles, Glass): every part must belong to one, and the family decides whether its parts add to the item price and cost, its default markup, and its warranty group. Make both before you add parts. […]
How to set up options and answers (add a new option, add a choice, price a choice)
An option is a question a product asks when it is configured (“Colour”, “Hardware”, “Grid Type”). Its choices (answers) are what the user can pick (“White”, “Black”). Each choice can carry a stock code, a price and a cost, and can send work to a production line and station. Options are made once and then […]
How to set up a matrix: create a price matrix (size table) and attach it to an option choice, a part or a series
A matrix is a lookup table: give it two inputs (a width and a height, or a colour answer and a size) and it returns a value: a price, an adjustment, a part, an error message or another matrix. Matrices price option choices and parts by size, give quantity discounts on a series, and pick […]
How to set up glass and sealed-unit types (glass types, IG units, spacer, gas, glass thickness)
A glass type (also called a sealed-unit or SU type) describes one glass make-up: its panes, spacers, gas, film, thickness, cost and price. The designer offers these types when a user picks glass, and rules and rule tests read them. OpenJanela 6.5 has no OJ Setup screen to create or change the glass type list. […]