Automatic drafting in Live Entry
About Automatic Drafting
When using automatic drafting Live Entry it prevents you from manually entering data for the selected animal.
This is because there is no guarantee that you will enter all the required data before the animal gets automatically saved and drafted.
You can however, capture a weight and even certain persistent data (data that does get reset for every animal).
Not all fields in the data entry panel are classed as persistent. If you select a non-persistent field then it will be reset once the next animal is read.
There is nothing that can be done to change a non-persistent field to be persistent.
If you wish to manually enter data against every animal that comes through, then auto drafting is NOT what you want to use. In that situation, either SEMIAUTO or MANUAL drafting will need to be selected.
There are 2 Automatic settings:
- AUTOMATIC (Stockbook will draft the animal as soon as it's tag is read)
- AUTOMATIC ON WEIGHT (Stockbook will draft the animal as soon as it's weight is read)
The Automatic drafting template
- When setting up or first opening a template that has drafting set to Auto you will see this message :
- The Data Entry screen has been disabled preventing the ability to add data here.
The persistent fields
To set the persistent fields in the data entry template, firstly you will need to disable drafting.
- Click Setup > Drafting
- Untick the Enable Drafting check box
- Click OK
The Draft Setup should now look like this
Setting the persistent fields
- Enter the required data to the fields.
- These fields are persistent and will be assigned to every animal
Re- enable Drafting
- Click on the Setup > Drafting
- Tick Enabled Drafting check box
- Reselect Type of drafting back to AUTOMATIC
- Click OK
- Now got to View > Data Windows and tick Handled Animals
You can now start drafting as normal.
How do I see the weight captured against an animal?
The animal is saved as soon as the weight is captured.
You will not be able to directly see the weight that gets entered into the weight field on the data entry window.
You can however, see the weight in the handled animals list.
See Example Below:
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