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Table Plan: an upright layout for phones

Give a floor a second layout of the same tables for a POS held upright, such as a waiter's phone. Wide and Upright (phones), Start from the wide layout, the upright canvas, and Remove the upright layout.

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On this page

A floor is drawn wide, like the room. On a POS held upright, such as a waiter's phone, that wide plan is shrunk to fit the narrow screen, and the tables come out small. An upright layout fixes this: the same tables, placed again by you for an upright screen, taller than wide.

Each floor can have one. The POS draws it whenever its screen is upright, and the wide layout otherwise. The tables stay the same tables: their codes, shapes, colours, seats and settings are shared; only their places differ.

Before you start

  • Your access group needs Table Plan Designer with Edit.
  • Draw and save the floor's wide layout first. The upright layout starts from it.

Make an upright layout

  1. In Room, Table Plan, click the floor's tab.
  2. Click Upright (phones). A floor without an upright layout says This floor has no upright layout yet.
  3. Click Start from the wide layout. Every table is laid out in a tall grid, by code (T2 before T10), decorations last, each at its wide size, row by row.
  4. Drag the tables where you want them on the upright floor. Every tool works here too: the box, Ctrl+click, the align buttons, the panel.
  5. Click Save layout. Both layouts are saved together.
Upright (phones) on a floor that has no upright layout yet.
  1. Start from the wide layout: makes the floor's upright layout, with every table in a tall grid by code. Nothing is saved until Save layout. + Table is hidden here until the floor has an upright layout.

The upright layout, part by part

A floor's upright layout: the same tables, placed for a screen held upright.
  1. Wide / Upright (phones): which layout you are drawing. Switching is not a change: nothing needs saving, and Undo starts afresh.
  2. Start from the wide layout: lays every table out again in the tall grid, from the wide layout. It asks first: Lay every table out again on the upright layout, from the wide one? Where you placed them upright is replaced. Undo takes it back.
  3. Canvas: the upright floor's width and height in design units, from 100 to 10000. It starts at 600 wide and at least 1000 tall, taller when the tables need it. The new size is taken when you leave the box.
  4. Remove the upright layout: takes the upright layout away from this floor. It asks first: Take the upright layout away from this floor? On a screen held upright the POS then fits the wide layout, as before. Nothing changes until you save.
  5. The line: moving a table here leaves the wide layout as it is, and a table added on the wide layout is placed here below the others until you move it.
  6. The upright floor: the same tables, where they stand on an upright screen. The floor's background colour is drawn; its picture is drawn on the wide layout only.
  7. The line under the floor: Upright canvas, its size, the grid and the number of tables.

What each layout keeps

  • The table's own settings are shared: code, name, shape, seats, turn, colour, text size, order type, price level and the rest. Change one on either layout and it changes on both.
  • The place and size are each layout's own. Moving or resizing a table upright leaves its wide place as it is, and the other way round.
  • A table added on the wide layout is placed on the upright one below the others, until you move it there. A table added on the upright layout, with + Table, is put at the top left of the wide one.
  • Copy plan copies a floor's upright layout too.

On the POS

The POS chooses by the shape of its screen, floor by floor: the upright layout when the screen is taller than wide and the floor has one; otherwise the wide layout, fitted to the screen.

The same floor on a phone held upright: the upright layout, filling the width.
On Android

A phone or a tablet held upright draws the upright layout; turned sideways, it draws the wide one again. Every width counts: a large tablet held upright draws the upright layout too.

On Windows

The Windows POS draws the upright layout while its window is taller than it is wide, such as on a screen turned on its side, and the wide one otherwise. It changes as soon as the window does.

The POS takes the new layout at its next contact with the cloud, as for any change to the plan.

Take the upright layout away

  1. On the floor, click Upright (phones).
  2. Click Remove the upright layout, and OK to the question.
  3. Click Save layout. On an upright screen the POS then fits the wide layout again.

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