### Basic Workflow

To get up and running measuring parts, the following needs to take place.

Generally an administrator first does the following (see "Administrator Tasks"):

- Installs the software

- Creates a database

- Logs into the database

- Creates user accounts for the operators or tells them how to register

- Approves user registration

- Creates cause codes to support measurement

- Creates part templates using the New Part Wizard to define what to measure and how the data should be collected

- Defines variable sets if needed to provide filters of what should be measured to the operator

- Finishes the part template and informs the operators

An operator then does the following (see "Operator Tasks"):

- Connects to the database

- Logs into the database

- Starts a measurement session by loading the defined part template

- Defines the Lot Size and chooses a variable set if needed to limit the amount of dimensions to measure

- Measures the part with the gauge

- Enters results manually as needed for gauge devices that do not support a digital output

- Creates an Excel report with the measurement results

Important: Either the administrator or the operator needs to define and test the hardware communication settings between the gauge devices and the machine with the software before measurements can be taken by the gauge devices. See "Configuring Hardware and Connections".