File Match
File Match settings, one by one.
What each one does, who needs it and when to touch it. The safe choices are already made; most shops only ever change the first one.
How far it goes
One choice, and you can change it at any time.
Matches are shown on the job. Nothing goes out by itself.
While your library is still filling up.
Your tuner sees your earlier tune on the job and sends it with one press, also for the same software and hardware on another file.
If you want a person to look at every file.
It decides as if it were live and sends nothing, and you read what it would have done.
For your first week. Leave it until you agree with every decision.
The same file, for the whole of the same order, goes out by itself once the job is paid.
Once Simulate has shown you it decides as you would.
What counts as the same
The safe choices are already made; you only touch these for a reason.
Only a read identical to the one you tuned counts. Off, your tuner can also press send on a tune for the same car, software and hardware while you are Live.
Leave it on, unless your tuners want that one press on Live too. A different file never goes out by itself.
Make, model, engine, software and hardware must all be equal.
Leave it on. It belongs with the setting above.
Everything the customer ordered must be in the file. A Stage 1 file never goes to a Stage 2 customer, and this cannot be turned off.
Nothing to do. It is why you can trust the rest.
A file that covers the whole order and also carries one of these can still go out. Work that is missing always holds it back.
If your files always carry a small extra your customers do not mind.
The score a match needs. Lower means more matches and more risk.
Leave it, unless your tuners tell you good matches are being held back.
Limits you set
What may go out by itself. Past a limit a job simply waits for a person.
How many files can go out by themselves in a day, wherever the match came from. Past it, the next jobs wait for a person until tomorrow.
Keep it low for your first weeks, then raise it when you have seen a busy day.
Tick ECU families and only their jobs can go out by themselves. A job whose family cannot be told waits for a person.
When you trust your files on some ECUs and not yet on others.
How your library fills up
So your work is kept without anyone remembering to do it.
Every file your tuners send back goes into the library by itself.
Leave it on. Turn it off only if you file your library by hand.
When a file is sent back, your tuner is asked what it does, with the customer's order already filled in, and the library files it under that.
Leave it on: it is how the next match knows the work.
A correction is often cut around one car. On, it can be reused unless a tuner marks it as that job's. Off, nothing is reused until someone vouches for it.
Turn it off if your tuners often cut files for one car only.
What you are told
So nothing happens behind your back.
An alert each time, on the channels you use.
Keep it for the first weeks. Turn it off when you trust it.
An email at 7 with what went out overnight.
If you would rather read it once a day than be told each time.
Tells you when a match was close and a check stopped it.
While you are deciding whether to allow more.