Units of Measurement
Units of measurement (UoM) are used to create materials and products in Jobman.
In this article:
Available UoM - Creating or Importing Catalogue Materials
Available UoM - Price Unit Id and Unit Price Unit Id
Available UoM - Optimisation Id
Available UoM - Products and Product Parts
Available UoM - Creating or Importing Catalogue Materials
When creating a material manually or importing materials, you can choose from the following UoM:
Length/Width/Depth (or Length Unit Id if importing):
- centimetres (cm)
- feet (ft)
- inches (in)
- metres (m)
- millimetres (mm)
Volume (or Volume Unit Id if importing):
- cubic metres (m3)
- cubic millimetres (mm3)
- gallons (gal)
- litres (litre)
- millilitres (ml)
Weight (or Mass Unit Id if importing):
- grams (g)
- kilograms (kg)
- tonnes (t)
Available UoM - Price Unit Id and Unit Price Unit Id
When setting the price and units for your materials, you can choose from the following UoM, which are case sensitive:
- each
- sheet
- roll
- piece
- square_feet
- square_metre
- lineal_metre
- litre
- pack
- pair
- kilogram
- kilometer
- mile
- minute
- hour
- day
- week
If you enter this information incorrectly while attempting to import materials, your import will fail and you will see the following error message:
UoM - Optimisation Id
When selecting the optimisation for a material, you can choose from the following UoM:
Creating a Material:
- Square Feet
- Square Metre
- Lineal Metre
Importing Materials (Optimisation Id field):
Note: These are case sensitive.
- square_feet
- square_metre
- lineal_metre
Important: When optimising your material, you will need to use the same Length Id and Optimisation Id.
- If using lineal metre or square metre optimisation, you must set the Length Id to metre.
- If using square feet optimisation, you must set the Length Id to feet.
UoM - Products and Product Parts
When creating a product, the available UoM for length/width/depth, volume and weight are the same as for creating materials:
- centimetres (cm)
- feet (ft)
- inches (in)
- metres (m)
- millimetres (mm)
- cubic metres (m3)
- cubic millimetres (mm3)
- gallons (gal)
- litres (litre)
- millilitres (ml)
- grams (g)
- kilograms (kg)
- tonnes (t)
When creating a product part or component (specifically a proportional item or style item) the available UoM for length/width/depth, volume and weight are the same, but abbreviated:
- cm
- ft
- in
- m
- mm
- m3
- mm3
- gal
- litre
- ml
- g
- kg
- t