# Usage List

### Usage  <a href="#usage" id="usage"></a>

Enable a function for this button. See the following table for the different functions available for different buttons.

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| **Items, Course, Discount** |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Course**                  | <p>Enable the course # which this order is to be. Course 1 to 9.</p><p><mark style="color:blue;">NOTE: This option is available only if you also enable the Compilation option in Point of Sale Control / Revenue Center / Options / Options / Kitchen.</mark></p> |
| **Discount**                | Enable a discount.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| **Item**                    | Enable an Item.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| **Item Class**              | Select an Item Class.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| **Mode**                    | <p>Enable the Mode you wish to switch the current order to.</p><p><mark style="color:blue;">NOTE: Usage field changes to mode when Field type is Mode.</mark></p>                                                                                                  |
| **Preferential Screen**     | Enable the preferential screen that will be called.                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| **Variable List**           | Enable the variable list that will be called.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |

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| **Main Commands, Commands List** |                                         |
| -------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| **Cash Payment**                 | Enter the $ amount.                     |
| **Command List**                 | Enable the CMD list.                    |
| **Media Select**                 | Enable one of your payment media types. |

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| **Item Commands** |                                                                                                                     |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Next Dollar**   | <p>Enter the dollar "slice" that Maitre'D will use to calculate change.</p><p>Ex. Next .50 cents, $1.00, $5.00.</p> |
| **Upsize**        | Enable the number of the upsize, between 1 & 10.                                                                    |

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| **Other Commands**                               |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| <p><strong>External Command</strong></p><p> </p> | <p>Enable the external application you defined on the workstations. For example, if you would like to have access to Windows Calculator, define it as ExtCmd1 in the POS.INI of your workstations. Then select External Command #1 from the drop-down list.</p><p><mark style="color:blue;">NOTE: By default, while the other application is running, the workstation is disabled and cannot send orders to shared printers. Also, beware of the fact that some external program could enter in conflict with the Maitre'D program.</mark></p>                                                                         |
| **Food Runner**                                  | <p>If a value between 1 and 3 is entered in this field, the button becomes a display area to show the last, second to last or third to last order.</p><p><mark style="color:blue;">NOTE: If the value is set to 0, the button only brings up the food runner screen without waiting for the default delay. To specify the amount of text displayed before a More button appears within the Food Runner area, add the following configuration key & value in the Miscellaneous section of the BO.ini file under the C:\Posera\MaitreD\Data directory: FoodRunnerLineNumber=x where x is the number of lines.</mark></p> |


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