Assigning other costs to animals

Assigning other costs to animals

A Cost Event allows you to record all costs incurred by any animals. Other costs are for example Transport can be added to an animal.  

Part I: Performing a Cost Event

Step 1. Open the Animals List 

  • Click on the Animals toolbar option to open the current animal list. 

Step 2. Selecting Animals for Event

Select the animal(s) for the event
Selected animals will appear with a Dark Green background 
Animals can be selected in different ways:
  1. To select ALL animals currently displayed, click on the Select All button located at the top right hand side of the screen
  2. To select animals in a continuous group, use your mouse to click on the first animal in the group, hold down the Shift key and then click on the last animal in the group
  3. To select animals at random, hold down the Ctrl key and then use your mouse to click on the required animal/s
  4. To select one animal, just click on that animal
You can also click on the Filter button to narrow your selection criteria e.g. mob, group, paddock, primary IDs, sex, etc.
If you are uncertain how many animals you currently have selected:
  1. Look at the Animal Selected amount located just above the Print button, at the bottom of the Animals screen.
  2. Animals Listed indicates all animals currently listed in the screen above.

 

Part II: Performing the Cost Event

Step 1. Events 

  • Click on the Events button located at the bottom of the current Animal listing screen


 Step 2. Select Event

  • Select the Costs option, it will then be highlighted blue
  • Click on the OK button


Step 3. Enter the Cost Information 
You can enter cost information in one of 3 ways:

Enter the Same Information for all Animals:
    1. Enter details into the default fields below
      1. Default Amt. can be a Per Hd (per head) or a Total amount
      2. If it's a Total amount, then it will be divided evenly amongst the selected animals
      3. The calculated price will appear in the spreadsheet (described below)
    2. You can add a Default Detail by clicking on the "+" button beside the dropdown list
    3. The Default Amt. can be calculated by entering a rate and multiplier e.g. $2 per day for 60 days = $120, in the Calculate default amount at the rate of section
Enter Specific Details: 
  1. Enter specific details for each animal in the spreadsheet
  2. Any details entered in the spreadsheet will override these defaults
A Mixture of Above:
  1. If a particular column in the spreadsheet is empty for any animal, then the default value will be applied instead
  2. Click on the OK button to save or on Cancel/Exit button to abort the event


  1. Click Yes to the Confirm message:  "Are you sure you want to assign costs for displayed animals?"
  2. Click OK to the Information message: "Event Complete."
If you make a mistake follow these steps to udo it,
  1. Select the same animals again
  2. Click on the Events button
  3. Click on Costs to select
  4. Click on the Undo button 

Article ID 1691

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