08. Find and Filter Manufacturing Orders

The Manufacturing list is the home screen for every production order in your account. It shows one row per order, whatever its stage, and lets you search, filter, sort, and switch between saved views to narrow down to the orders you care about.

After reading this article you will know how to find a specific order, filter the list by status, manufacturer, location, date, or tag, read each column, and apply a bulk status change to several orders at once.

Open the Manufacturing list

Select Manufacturing from the main navigation. Qoblex opens a table titled Manufacturing listing your production orders. The list loads from the server one page at a time, so it stays responsive even with a large order history.

The table has these columns:

• Selection checkbox (used for bulk actions)
• Order — the order number, which links to the order’s detail page
• Date — the order creation date
• Manufacturer — the supplier/manufacturer contact on the order
• Location — the production location
• Status — the production status as its raw value: Draft, InProduction (shown without a hyphen in this column), Completed, or Canceled
• BOM — the finished product (bill of material) being produced, with its image and a link to the product
• Quantity — the quantity to produce
• Yield — the yield quantity (good units produced)
• Production Start — the date production was started, or N/A if it has not started
• Cost (currency symbol) — the total production cost, shown in your base currency

The list is sorted by Date, newest first, by default. You can re-sort by clicking the Order or Date column header. The other columns are not sortable.

An order whose finished product has been deleted still appears in the list, with a Deleted marker shown in the Status column in place of the status value.

Search

Use the search box at the top of the page to find a specific order. It searches by:

• Order number
• Supplier / manufacturer name
• Reference number

The exact placeholder text reads Order number, supplier name / reference number. Results update as you type. Search is the fastest route when you already know the order number, the manufacturer, or the reference. When you instead want all production in a period or at a location, use the filters below.

Filters

Select Filters to open the Filter… dialog. The Manufacturing list supports these filters:

• Filter by order status — Canceled, Draft, In-Production, Completed (select one or more)
• Filter by supplier — the manufacturer contact
• Filter by location — the production location
• Order creation date — a date range
• Tagged with — an order tag

Choose your criteria and select Apply Filters. Each active filter appears as a chip above the table; select the x on a chip to clear that one filter. Select Close to dismiss the dialog without applying changes.

By default the list shows Draft, In-Production, and Completed orders only — Canceled orders are hidden until you add Canceled to the status filter.

Use the status filter to separate planning work (Draft) from active and finished production. Use the location filter when you are investigating missing component stock, allocation questions, or production posted to the wrong warehouse.

Saved views

If you have saved views, Qoblex shows them as tabs above the table. Select a tab to switch to that saved set of filters. When you change the current filters, a Save View link appears so you can save the new combination as a view or update the one you are on.

Bulk actions

Select one or more rows using the checkboxes, then open the Bulk Actions menu and choose a workflow action:

• Start Production — moves the selected Draft orders to In Production
• Open for Edits — returns the selected In Production orders to Draft
• Complete Production — completes the selected In Production orders

Qoblex runs the action against every selected order and then reloads the list. On success you see a confirmation such as The selected orders have been started.

If you select no orders, Qoblex shows No orders selected — Please select one or more orders and try again and does nothing.

If one or more selected orders cannot make the requested change, Qoblex opens a Manufacturing Bulk Actions dialog listing the specific message for each blocked order (for example, an order that is short on component stock, is missing required batch details, or is not in the right status for the action). Orders that could be updated are still updated.

Apply a bulk action only when every selected order is genuinely ready for the same change. After a partial failure, open each blocked order, resolve the message shown, and re-run the action only on the orders that are now ready.

Import

Select Import… to bring in production orders from a CSV file. This opens the import dialog. See Import manufacturing orders by CSV for the field-by-field details.

Table tools

Qoblex adds its standard table buttons to the list. Use them for the table-level tools available in your account, such as export, where enabled.

Troubleshooting

If an order or a figure on the list looks wrong, work through the items below before escalating.