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This video tutorial will show you howto add a new menu item to the Aloha Post.

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So you want to go ahead and get logged

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into the Aloha Configuration Center,which is this icon here that says, see,

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f it's on your desktopof your Aloha computer.

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When you log in here,

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you want to make sure that you'relogging in with your corporate account.

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So that's your username that starts

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with a line followed by the last word,your Social Security number,

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and then your password is whatyou have set for yourself.

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Sinon, if you have any trouble logging in,

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just let me know and I can reset yourpassword for you or troubleshoot your

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account if there's somethingwrong with your permission.

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Now, we're going to start here under

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maintenance,that's just something that pops up for me,

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you won't have to click anything,their maintenance menu items.

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We're going to load all of our data,all of our menu items in the config

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center, so it might take a momentdepending on how fast your computer is.

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OK, so we have all of our menu itemsloaded here, so if you click the dropdown

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box here, you can see that there's quitea lot of information to scroll through.

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So what we're going to do is we're going

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to filter out and get to whatwe're trying to create.

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So for the purposes of this tutorial,I'm going to create a new menu item

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for a bottled beerand I'm going to make one up.

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We're just going to call it Bel's new.Bottled beer.

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So we're going to filter out owner to see

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only the CMT corporate owned itemsbecause all alcoholic items are CMT

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corporate owned, because we share thisbank of items among all of the stores.

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Since we're adding a bottle of beer,

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we want to filter out and just see bottledbeer and then we're going to just click

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here in the middle of the barto sort by long name.

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So when we grow up,

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we're going to grab one of these Belz

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beers, which alreadyexists and just copy it.

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So let's grab this one.

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Bel's half hell hath no fury.

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Once we select this and we're on

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this item's profile,we're going to get a copy this item

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so we can create a duplicateand then change the new duplicate.

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So in this small arrow on the copy button

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and you drop down, you can selectwhere you want to copy it to.

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We're creating another corporate item, sowe want to copy it to CMT Corporate it.

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OK,and right here, we want to make sure we

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note the new item numberthat it's being copied to.

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Now, the system will selectthe next most recent number.

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So seven one nine three seven three.

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Is what it's been copied to hit, OK,and then here's a quick little step

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that we make sure we don't miss,you just hit edit and hit saved

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and then we're going to select.

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Yes, because it's just asking if we want

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to save a duplicate item,which is exactly what we're doing.

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So we do click.Yes.

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And then when we go back to the dropdown

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box, there's two items that are identical,except their numbers are different.

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So we want to make sure that we notedthe new item number and we click that

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and then we're going to changethe new item description.

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To we're going to make it up and call itnew baby, so we change the short name,

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which is what appears on the buttonin the post,

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also going to change the name,which is what appears on the ticket.

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And then we're going to change the long

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name, which is what appears on the receiptthat prints for the customer.

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So we keep the bees here,

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which denotes that it's a bottle of beer,and then we keep bottle on the long name,

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which also denotes thatit's a bottle of beer.

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So now we have a new menu profilecreated and we click Save.

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And when you go back to the drop down,you can see that the one we copied from is

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still there and then ournew one is still here.

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So our new item is created.

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You'd think we'd be done, but we're not.

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We've got to go back into categories.

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Maintenance menu categories.

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And then if you click the items tab here,it shows all available items in the bank.

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So the new one that we just created,

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if we sought by owner,should appear right at the top.

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To CMT corporate item that is not in me

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included bank, so that's a problem,we have to make sure to click it over

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and include it so that blackcards will work on it.

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And we hit saved from here.

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We also want to make sure to include it sothat it prints to the correct printers.

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So all you need to do isgo to menu item routing.

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And again, just like we did, make sureit's included so sought by owner.

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And it might be a littlemore difficult to find.

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So we'll start by name.

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There it is.

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And then save again,

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and we should be all good to gowhen you're making changes

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on the computer, you always want to makesure that you log out of your profile so

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nobody else can come sit at the computerand make changes as you.

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And after you've all logged out,we are finished.