Shed

Find files by job number

If your company has connected the system it runs work from, its job numbers become a way of finding files. Tagging a folder with its job number covers everything under it. Nothing is tagged until you say so, nothing moves, and the files stay exactly where they are.

To tag a folder with its job number

Open the folder, or tick it in a listing, and choose Job…. Start typing the job number or the name and pick the job from the list. Everything under that folder is covered, including anything added to it later, so a folder tagged today still answers for the files dropped in next week.

Where Shed can tell which job a folder belongs to from its name and where it sits, it offers the job and says why. You still have to agree before anything is tagged.

To see what is kept for a job

Open the job from any file tagged with it. The job shows how many files the archive holds for it, what they come to, which folders they sit in and who tagged them. Open a file and it tells you the job it belongs to.

A job that is closed in the system it came from keeps everything tagged against it, and says it is closed.

To untag something

Choose Job… again and take the job off. Nothing happens to the files: tagging and untagging only change what the folder says about itself.

What this is not

It is not moving, copying or filing anything into a different place. The folders keep their names and their paths, and a file is in exactly the folder it was in before. If the connection to your system is ever removed, the files stay where they are.

It is also not the same as a tag you make up yourself, which you can put on anything. See Gather files with tags.

If you do not see Job…

Your company has not connected a system, or your level is below Download. Ask whoever runs your shed. See Invite someone and choose what they can do.

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