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Distribute to Sites

Potential changes and additions to the digital price book come from a variety of sources, as described in “Building Your First Price Book”. Once you have designated the target CDB zone/sites where these changes and additions are to be pushed using the Outside Updates window, and have accepted them using the same window, you “push” them to the CDB by using the Distribute to Sites feature. To do this:

1.	On the Setup menu, click Distribute to Sites. The following window appears:

Distribute to Sites

This window provides a graphic representation of all zones and sites that are in the enterprise. Each zone in the current enterprise is listed on the left, numbered corresponding to its Zone #. The sites in the enterprise are listed on the right. They all are potential targets for the Distribute to Sites event you are about to initiate.

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Select the check boxes of the sites to which items are to be distributed. Click a zone and all sites within the zone will be selected. Select a site and the zone in which that site resides will also be selected. Sites that share only some of the items in the zone/site you selected appear with a minus sign (-).

You can select as many zones/sites as you want.

Tip	In both the zone and site selection grids, you can select the topmost check box to select every target below it.

3.	Once you select the zones/sites to which items will be distributed, you can take the following actions using the provided check box () and the four buttons directly above the Sites list (). Your options are as follows:

o	Select the Distribute modifications only check box if you want only item changes and additions that occurred in CPB distributed to the target zones/sites. This is the default setting. If you are planning on running the Distribute to Sites report, this check box must be selected.

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Clear the Distribute modifications only check box to distribute the complete price book along with the item changes and additions to the target zones/sites. This is useful, for example, if your pricing in a zone or site has gotten behind, is plagued with potential errors and you want to re-set it. If the selected sites are numerous, the DTS process may take a long time. If you have changed Unit Cost on any items (see “Enable Unit Cost in Item Adjust/Add Item”), the window will notify you that these costs also will be overridden. If this check box is cleared you CANNOT run a Distribute to Sites report.

o	— See “Item Conflicts Report”.

o	— See “Distribute to Sites Report”.

o	— See “Email Report”.

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When you are ready, click . CPB will begin pushing the changes to the appropriate CDB sites while an activity circle rolls while the processing takes place. When CPB finishes to sites, it displays the message, Distribute to Sites complete. Your changes are now resident in the CDB sites you selected. Items in the Outside Updates window that have been Distributed to Sites will no longer display there, unless there is an issue (see next section).