Product Details - Items
Select the main Products tab, or use the F5 function key.
Click on the Items tab.
The Items tab gives you access to a list into which you can select other Products as 'items' inside the current Product. Note that any item must be defined as a 'Product' first.
When a Product gets added to a load, and that Product has 'Items comprise a Set' checked, the item products will get added to a Load (with their quantities).
To insert items into the list,
1.Right-click the list to get a pop-up menu.
2. Click in the left list of the pop-up window on the Products you want to insert, optionally after filtering which Products are visible. (If you make a mistake, click on the same Product when it is in the right hand list.)
3. Press the OK button.
The use of 'items' inside a 'Product' is useful when you want to set up irregularly shaped items on for example a pallet. Given the irregular shape of the items, Cube-IQ cannot do this for you, but it can still load the (now also irregularly shaped) pallet into a truck as a 'Top Only' Product.
Items are also used by Cube-IQ in Two-Stage loading. For example, if in Stage 1 boxes are loaded onto a pallet, then in Stage 2 the pallets can get loaded into a truck. In the second stage the pallet becomes a 'Product', with the boxes on the pallet becoming the 'items' of the Product.