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The '''manager''' is a [[noble]] that allows players to create multiple production orders, and also lets them set up profiles for workshops. This means that players can rapidly dispatch any number of jobs from a single screen, without having to add tasks to individual [[workshop]]s.  
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The '''manager''' is a useful [[noble]] that allows players to create multiple [[Work orders]], and also lets them set up profiles for workshops. This means that players can rapidly dispatch any number of jobs from a single screen, without having to add tasks to individual [[workshop]]s.  
  
 
==Relevant Skills==
 
==Relevant Skills==
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The better match with the skills, traits and attributes in the table above, the better of a manager a dwarf will be. Try to avoid traits that halt experience gain for a relevant skill, otherwise time will be lost training a dwarf who will never get better at that skill.
 
The better match with the skills, traits and attributes in the table above, the better of a manager a dwarf will be. Try to avoid traits that halt experience gain for a relevant skill, otherwise time will be lost training a dwarf who will never get better at that skill.
  
 
==Office==
 
==Office==
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A manager only performs their duties in their office, so it is absolutely necessary to assign them one. Since only a meager office is required, a single chair in the [[dining room]] will suffice.
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A manager only performs their duties in their office, so it's absolutely necessary to assign them one, though they only require a meager office.
  
 
To set up a dwarf to be the manager and give them an office:
 
To set up a dwarf to be the manager and give them an office:
  
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#Hit {{K|n}} to enter the Nobles screen
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#Open the Nobles screen by pressing {{K|n}} or the crown button on the bottom left toolbar.
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#Select Manager and hit {{K|Enter}}. Assign a dwarf to be the manager. If nobody is particularly suited to the job, picking the Expedition Leader is a reasonable choice.
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#Select the {{K|+}} button next to Manager which will bring up a list of valid candidates in your fort; those with applicable skills will be at the top of the list. Click on the candidate of your choosing; if nobody is particularly suited to the job, picking the Expedition Leader is a reasonable choice. You will see that the Study icon (the chair symbol) for the Manager position is red, meaning their requirement for an office is not met.  Exit the Nobles screen.
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#Build a [[chair]] somewhere, or locate an existing chair.
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#Use the Zones tool {{K|z}} to paint an Office zone in a location and of a size you desire. Once the zone is placed, and while it is still selected, press the Assign dwarf button and choose the dwarf you've assigned to the Manager position to make this their office.
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#Use the {{K|q}} command and place the cursor on the chair. Select the option to make the area into an [[Office]] and assign your manager as the owner of the office. At this point, the red {{DFtext|[REQUIRE]|4:1}} under "Manager" should have disappeared from the {{K|n}}obles screen, and you should be able to queue up work orders.
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#Build a [[chair]] inside the Office zone you've placed. Other furniture can also be included if you wish to increase the room value, but it must at least have a chair.
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#Once this is done, if you return to the Nobles screen you will see that the Study icon for the Manager position is now green, their need for an office met. You should now be able to queue up work orders.
  
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It is trivially easy for a manager to get experience in the [[organizer]] skill. Just queue a lot of jobs to produce 30 of something, such as [[loom|Collect Webs]], which appears first on the list.  The manager will gain experience when validating the order, not when the order is finished. You can cancel the order after it is validated if you wish.
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It is trivially easy for a manager to get experience in the [[organizer]] skill. Just queue a lot of jobs to produce 30 of something, such as [[loom|Collect Webs]], which appears first on the list.  The manager will gain experience when validating the order, not when the order is finished. You can cancel the order after it's validated, if you wish.
  
 
{{a|The manager screen}}
 
{{a|The manager screen}}
  
 
== Work orders ==
 
== Work orders ==
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Work orders are an advanced feature of [[Workshop#Management|Workshop Management]] that becomes available with a manager. It allows easier management, automation and/or fine control of the various activities needed to maintain a well-oiled fort. The manager screen lists all work orders in the fortress, shows their status and allows to modify them and place new general orders. It is accessed from the main screen through the {{K|j}}ob list and then the {{K|m}}anager menu.
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Work orders are an advanced feature of [[Workshop#Management|Workshop Management]] that becomes available with a manager. It allows easier management, automation and/or fine control of the various activities needed to maintain a well-oiled fort. The manager screen lists all work orders in the fortress, shows their status and allows to modify them and place new general orders. It is accessed from the main screen through the {{K|o}}rders menu, or the clipboard icon in the bottom left of the screen.
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For detailed usage, see [[Work orders]].
  
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=== Validating orders ===
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Work orders can also be created that apply only to specific workshops. This is done using the clipboard button on the Work orders tab of the individual workshop's interface. See [[Workshop]] for more information.
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A manager is required to coordinate work orders. The manager will need time to approve work orders before production begins. If there are at least 20 dwarves total, then the manager will need to go to their office to "validate" each work order before it is acted on. If they are somehow occupied with other things, then this might take a while, so in larger forts, you might want to make sure your manager is not overly-burdened with other labors (for example, disabling hauling and cleaning for the manager might be a good idea). The manager will also not perform their duties if socializing, drinking, eating, asleep or otherwise incapacitated (perhaps due to wounds). Managers don't require writing materials such as [[paper]] or [[scroll]]s to validate production orders.
 
  
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After a production order is validated and Active, corresponding tasks will be automatically added to applicable workshops until the production quota has been met. An [[announcement]] appears when each order is completed. For repeating orders, the order then becomes inactive and the manager checks at the selected time interval for the conditions to become true again before restarting the order.
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==Disadvantages==
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One disadvantage of the work order system is that once your fortress reaches 20 citizens, work orders will not be performed until they are validated by the manager. Work order validation appears to be fairly high priority, but it's best to ensure your manager has ample free time and isn't typically called far from the office for timely order validation.
  
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The status of orders can be checked in the manager screen — validated orders will have a green checkmark, while invalidated orders will have a red X. Job orders will remain enqueued until the manager is once again in his (or her) office. An order can have the prefix of 'Ready', 'Checking' or 'Active'. A 'Ready' order only needs to be validated by the manager to become 'Active'. A 'Checking' order is waiting for its conditions to be satisfied: it will then become 'Active'.
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A second disadvantage is that if there is more than one workshop which can fulfill a particular job set (such as several ordinary [[glass furnace]]s dedicated to [[sand]] collection, plus several [[magma glass furnace]]s for actual glass production) then the manager will distribute the jobs amongst all those workshops. While this can be an advantage (for example, if you want to speed up the work orders by having multiple workshops), this will make it difficult to dedicate different workshops to different tasks. This can be prevented by entering the interface of specific workshops and moving to the Work orders menu; setting "General work orders allowed" to 0 will prevent the manager from assigning tasks.
  
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=== Placing new orders ===
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==Note==
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Work orders can be placed either as general orders through the Manager screen (and will be automatically tasked to any suitable workshops) or linked to a specific workshop through the Workshop Profile screen. To create a general order:
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In older versions of Dwarf Fortress, options could be set to restrict the allowed tasks at any workshop using Workshop Profiles. This feature needed the manager but has been removed.
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#Hit {{K|j}}-{{K|m}} or {{K|u}}-{{K|m}} to enter the Manager screen.
 
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#Press {{K|q}} to create a new work order
 
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#Start typing (part of) the name of the item you want to produce. This will cause menu options that don't match the string you type to disappear from the menu.
 
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#Use the directional keys to select the specific type of item you want.
 
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#Enter the quantity of items you want to produce (0 for a perpetual order).
 
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#Your work order will appear in the list.
 
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On creation of that order, it can be further customized; changing the {{K|c}}onditions for the order being fulfilled (see next section) and adjusting the {{K|d}}etails of an order specifying type of material used in the making of the item (if applicable). As well as {{K|r}}emove it, raise its {{K|p}}riority, make it max ({{K|t}}op) priority, change its priority, or {{K|Enter}} limit the amount of workshops the order can be tasked to.
 
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Work orders are created as a one-time order. Unlike manual assignments in a workshop, these orders aren't limited to ten items, won't cancel until complete, will be automatically tasked to any available workshops, and will notify the player upon completion. Setting the max number of workshops that the order applies to can be especially useful to ensure that multiple orders for the same type of workshop (e.g. a Mason's Workshop) are worked on at the same time.
 
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=== Conditions ===
 
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Work order conditions can be added by pressing {{K|c}}ondition with relevant work order highlighted. You can set the order to repeat and the frequency with which it repeats, set to activate based on the amount of an item in your fortress, or upon completion of other work orders, and set a job going based on numbers of items
 
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; Repeating orders
 
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An order can be set as a One-time order, or as a Repeating order that can restart when completed (conditions checked daily, monthly, seasonally or yearly). Your manager will check for the conditions you've set every [period of time you've set] and activate the job if it's conditions are satisfied. Use {{K|+}}{{K|-}} to just just condition check frequency.
 
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In repeating work orders, the quantity of items is treated as a batch size, rather than a target number for total items to be produced. The quantity is set when creating the work order, and cannot be changed without redoing the entire order, conditions and all. A repeating work order will not abort mid-batch due to job cancellation or failed conditions. It must wait until the end of the batch before stopping. Be forewarned that perpetual (infinite) orders ''only check their conditions the first time they become true'', since the (infinitely-sized) batch never completes. This can lead to confusion and frustration, as the order ''will '''never''' stop, regardless of failed conditions''! To reiterate, infinite orders start as soon as all conditions are met, and will only spam failures (but not stop) when Urist runs out of e.g. logs to turn into barrels. Any other orders at a given shop will be ignored after starting an infinite order.
 
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New entries can be {{K|a}}dd manually or by using the {{K|r}}eagents and {{K|p}}roducts presets where applicable, which you can then tweak to your liking. Reagents add input conditions e.g. wood logs for beds, while presets gives you presets for outputs e.g. so you can limit overproduction of beds. For each item entry the following conditions can be changed:
 
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* {{K|i}}tem type - Items base type, such as: 'beds', 'bolts', 'bars', 'Plant'(used for wood), 'Boxes and Bags', or just 'item' for any type.
 
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* {{K|m}}aterial - Specific material such as 'obsidian', 'Acacia', 'Feather wood', 'steel' etc.
 
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* {{K|t}}raits - Such as food-storage items, nearby items, empty items, unrotten etc.
 
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* {{K|n}}umber - Change the number of items required. The number of the items (though this does not count items that are forbidden, built into something, or owned) and the ine{{K|q}}uality, at least (>=), less than(<), at most(<=), greater than(>), exactly(==), not(!=)).
 
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* "refined coal" is just simply item=bar material=coal,
 
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* specific flour is item=powder, material=required flour name (not the plant name), trait=cookable
 
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* specific alcohol is item=drink, material="alcohol name" (not the plant name)
 
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* the trait "lye-containing item" (not to be mistaken with "lye-bearing item") is only available for "make soap" job,
 
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* item=liquid material=lye ignores lye in buckets,
 
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* the "unused" trait cannot be chosen manually, only {{K|r}}eagents/materials key sets it for "make clothing" type of jobs.
 
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* empty bags item=boxes and bags trait=empty empty=sewn-imageless
 
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;Order conditions
 
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{{K|o}}rder adds an entry that checks for a different order status. Set a job to only activate when another order is being completed, or another order is becoming active. For example, if you have one order to make barrels and another to brew drinks, you can add an order condition that first makes 10 barrels and then continues the brew order to brew 10 drinks. See also: [[Steel#Automated steel production]].
 
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* manager orders don't respect stockpile links, only workshop restrictions.
 
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* A guide to setting up functional work orders may be found in [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=158287.0 this thread].
 
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== Workshop profiles==
 
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The manager also allows players to change a [[workshop]]'s "Profile". To access a workshop's Profile, {{k|q}}uery a workshop, then look at the Workshop {{k|P}}rofile. This gives you three tabs to go through: Permitted Workers, Work Orders, and Labor Restrictions. Press the arrow keys to go between the tabs.
 
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* Permitted Workers tab allows to restrict the dwarves that can use it and the minimum and maximum [[skill]] level required to use the workshop. They can choose who specifically can use the workshop by pressing {{k|Enter}} on their name to permit/forbid their use of the workshop.
 
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* Work Orders tab allow place new orders specific to that workshop. Toggle whether or not the workshop will accept general work orders or adjust how many of them can be task to this workshop at a time. Additionally the Labor Restrictions tab allows to further restrict which general work orders the workshop can be tasked with.
 
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Dwarves with strange moods seem to be able to claim a workshop, even if they do not meet the profile criteria.
 
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A note of caution: workshop profiles persist<sup>v0.31.12</sup> even if the manager is killed, which can lead to workshops becoming unusable if the manager is killed and the dwarves permitted into the workshop die or are reassigned. Furthermore, workshop profiles seem to be slightly buggy. Adequate (rusty) weaponsmiths have been seen using a forge with the skill min/max both set to "Dabbling". This may be somewhat irritating if peasants are undergoing training.
 
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==Disadvantages==
 
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One disadvantage of the work order system is that no work will be performed until the manager finishes validating the order. Work order validation appears to be fairly high priority, but it's best to ensure your manager has ample free time and isn't typically called far from the office for timely order validation.
 
  
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A second disadvantage is that if there is more than one workshop which can fulfill a particular job set (such as several ordinary [[glass furnace]]s dedicated to [[sand]] collection, plus several [[magma glass furnace]]s for actual glass production) then the manager will distribute the jobs amongst all those workshops. While this can be an advantage (for example, if you want to speed up the work orders by having multiple workshops), this will make it difficult to dedicate different workshops to different tasks. This can be prevented by entering the profile of specific workshops and moving to the Work Orders menu; setting "general work orders cannot task this shop" will prevent the manager from assigning tasks.
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==See also==
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{{gamedata| [POSITION:MANAGER]
 
{{gamedata| [POSITION:MANAGER]

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Manager
Room requirements  
Office Meager Office
Quarters None
Dining room None
Tomb None
Furniture requirements
Chests None
Cabinets None
Weapon racks None
Armor stands None
Other
Mandates None
Demands None
Arrival conditions
Function
  • Allows large production orders.

The manager is a useful noble that allows players to create multiple Work orders, and also lets them set up profiles for workshops. This means that players can rapidly dispatch any number of jobs from a single screen, without having to add tasks to individual workshops.

Relevant Skills[edit]

A certain set of skills are relevant for any manager. Furthermore, certain personality traits influence whether any experience is gained in the skill. There are soul attributes that affect the skills, and other skills that affect the same attributes' cross-training. The ones relevant for a manager are as follows:

Skill (relevant for manager) Personality Trait (needed to gain social skill) Attribute (affected by social skill)
Body Soul
Organizer Analytical ability
Creativity
Social awareness

The better match with the skills, traits and attributes in the table above, the better of a manager a dwarf will be. Try to avoid traits that halt experience gain for a relevant skill, otherwise time will be lost training a dwarf who will never get better at that skill.

Office[edit]

A manager only performs their duties in their office, so it's absolutely necessary to assign them one, though they only require a meager office.

To set up a dwarf to be the manager and give them an office:

  1. Open the Nobles screen by pressing n or the crown button on the bottom left toolbar.
  2. Select the + button next to Manager which will bring up a list of valid candidates in your fort; those with applicable skills will be at the top of the list. Click on the candidate of your choosing; if nobody is particularly suited to the job, picking the Expedition Leader is a reasonable choice. You will see that the Study icon (the chair symbol) for the Manager position is red, meaning their requirement for an office is not met. Exit the Nobles screen.
  3. Use the Zones tool z to paint an Office zone in a location and of a size you desire. Once the zone is placed, and while it is still selected, press the Assign dwarf button and choose the dwarf you've assigned to the Manager position to make this their office.
  4. Build a chair inside the Office zone you've placed. Other furniture can also be included if you wish to increase the room value, but it must at least have a chair.
  5. Once this is done, if you return to the Nobles screen you will see that the Study icon for the Manager position is now green, their need for an office met. You should now be able to queue up work orders.

It is trivially easy for a manager to get experience in the organizer skill. Just queue a lot of jobs to produce 30 of something, such as Collect Webs, which appears first on the list. The manager will gain experience when validating the order, not when the order is finished. You can cancel the order after it's validated, if you wish.

Work orders[edit]

Work orders are an advanced feature of Workshop Management that becomes available with a manager. It allows easier management, automation and/or fine control of the various activities needed to maintain a well-oiled fort. The manager screen lists all work orders in the fortress, shows their status and allows to modify them and place new general orders. It is accessed from the main screen through the orders menu, or the clipboard icon in the bottom left of the screen. For detailed usage, see Work orders.

Work orders can also be created that apply only to specific workshops. This is done using the clipboard button on the Work orders tab of the individual workshop's interface. See Workshop for more information.

Disadvantages[edit]

One disadvantage of the work order system is that once your fortress reaches 20 citizens, work orders will not be performed until they are validated by the manager. Work order validation appears to be fairly high priority, but it's best to ensure your manager has ample free time and isn't typically called far from the office for timely order validation.

A second disadvantage is that if there is more than one workshop which can fulfill a particular job set (such as several ordinary glass furnaces dedicated to sand collection, plus several magma glass furnaces for actual glass production) then the manager will distribute the jobs amongst all those workshops. While this can be an advantage (for example, if you want to speed up the work orders by having multiple workshops), this will make it difficult to dedicate different workshops to different tasks. This can be prevented by entering the interface of specific workshops and moving to the Work orders menu; setting "General work orders allowed" to 0 will prevent the manager from assigning tasks.

Note[edit]

In older versions of Dwarf Fortress, options could be set to restrict the allowed tasks at any workshop using Workshop Profiles. This feature needed the manager but has been removed.

See also[edit]

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