Button Option Assignments

I need some clarification.

I own a restaurant and have been able to implement my options successfully. What I am hoping it that I can reduce the number of buttons on my screen for better selection of options when items are being rung up.

For example. One of my menu items has a lot of options. It works, but it was cumbersome to create the ticket options for just this specific meal.

RIght now, I have this…

I am hoping to reduce the “EGGS” options to one button, that when pressed pops up a selection window of all the egg options. Then closes when the option is chosen. I’d like to do the same for several items when they are chosen to simplify order entry. Once I get this figured out, the rest will be a piece of cake.

Thank you in advance for your help.

I know this can be done in V5 but not so sure in V4.

You could use a Category Tag to collapse all the Eggs into a single button …

Thats Thats the one I was thinking of, in V4 its the bottom option in the boxed section of general settings.

Similar, but different, is the Group Tag. It cycles through the Order Tags with each click.

So if you have a lot of Tags grouped together, you need to click the button many times to get the Order Tag you want.

The other drawback to the Group Tag is that it only allows 1 Order Tag to be selected from the Group …

And finally, you can use Prefixes and Filters to de-clutter, but it ultimately still occupies 2 lines…

Click “Egg” to reveal Filtered Tags, then select the Tag you want …

Wow. I just learnt something new . Brilliant!

Brilliant!

Thank you all for the great help! This was exactly what I was looking for.

I have an unrelated follow up question though. Is there a way to get items to sort on a ticket in a certain order? For example,…

EGGS
BACON
CAKES
TOAST

Right now, it is sorting the items in a random manner. I’d like to group in a certain order to facilitate consistent kitchen tickets.

Thank you all again for the help with the button! Awesomeness.

Pretty sure if I remember right you can set an order on the template but not on screen.
If you look up order group sorting in templates topic pretty sure same method applies to tags.
Pretty sure it went in to detail for someones kitchen display template to sort and format different tags.

In general, Order Tags appear in the order that they are defined, by Tag Group, then by sub-Tag. You can re-arrange Tag Groups by sorting them …


Also, in your Template, if you have something like:

[ORDERS]
<L00>{NAME}
{ORDER TAGS}

[ORDER TAGS]
<L00>    {ORDER TAG QUANTITY} {ORDER TAG NAME}

You can specify sorting like this:

[ORDERS]
<L00>{NAME}
{SORTED ORDER TAGS}

[SORTED ORDER TAGS]
<L00>    {ORDER TAG QUANTITY} {ORDER TAG NAME}

[SORTED ORDER TAGS GROUP|Sauteed,OTS]

[SORTED ORDER TAGS GROUP:Sauteed]
<L00>     ~~~ SAUTEED ~~~

[SORTED ORDER TAGS GROUP:OTS]
<L00>     ~~~ ON THE SIDE ~~~

Where:

[SORTED ORDER TAGS GROUP|Sauteed,OTS]
      Tag Group Ordering ^^^^^^^ ^^^

and:

[SORTED ORDER TAGS GROUP:Sauteed]
<L00>     ~~~ SAUTEED ~~~ ||||
  Heading ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ Group

This needs to be on tutorial page :stuck_out_tongue: