Scaling a formula to item quantities
In the Formula form, you can scale all items in a formula that is based on a new quantity of one or more items. When you adjust the item amount, or total amount for more than one item, the remaining items are scaled in proportion.
For example, a formula for pizza consists of water, flour, sauce, and cheese. The items in the formula are in a desirable proportion to achieve the appropriate parameter values. Now the formula yield is incorrect; you want the total amount of water and sauce to be 45 kilograms instead of 30 kilograms and you want the amount of flour and cheese to scale in proportion.
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Confirm that the item scaling values are either
Linear (0) or
Auto Adjust to Total (2).
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In the
Scale Formula to Item Quantity dialog, specify
either a
new item sub-total or a
scale factor. For this example, enter
45 for the
New Item Sub-total.
All of the item quantities in the Item Lines tab reflect the new scaling factor.
