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# Creating and using types (e.g. FH, VH)

With a **type**, you divide the lines of your quotations, [posts](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/posts-general-inoedz/) and progress claims into categories. This way you give each line a short code, for example **VH**, **FH**, **TP** or **PM**. That is useful to divide your lines visually and to print the type on the PDF. The type itself does not trigger any automatic reporting or grouping.

The type appears as a separate **Type** column on the lines. You decide yourself which values you can choose in that column, via the settings.

||| Do not confuse the type (the column with codes such as VH/FH) with the **line type** (Line, Chapter, Title, Text, ...). The line type determines the structure and layout of a line; the type is a freely chosen category code.

## Where do I create the types?

Go to **Settings > General**. In the **Master data** block, you will find the **Type** item under **Others**. Click it to open the overview of your types.

![The overview of your types](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/e/a/d/f/eadf6dec760ec000/types-bij-posten-en-offertes-e_1nay35g.png)

## Step 1 – Create a type

1. Go to **Settings > General** and click **Type** under **Master data > Others**.
2. Click the **Add** action button (+) at the top.
3. In **Name**, enter the code you want to see on the line, e.g. VH.

## Step 2 – Show the Type column on your quotations

On a quotation, the **Type** column only appears once you switch on the corresponding setting:

1. Go to **Settings > Quotations**.
2. Switch on the **Show type (eg. SOG)** toggle.
3. Click **Activate settings** at the bottom right.

On a progress claim, the **Type** column is always present on the lines.

## Step 3 – Use a type on a line

1. Open a quotation or progress claim.
2. Click in the **Type** column of the line you want and choose one of your types.

For a post, you enter the type on the post itself, in the **Type** field. When you add that post to a quotation line, the line takes over the type of the post.

## Step 4 – Show the type on the PDF

* **Quotation**: add the **Type** column to your pdf template. Go to **Settings > Quotations**, open your template under **Templates** in the **Pdf** section and add the **Type** column under the [columns](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/deciding-what-appears-on-your-pdf-e26zjo/#2-columns).
* **Progress claim**: the **Type** column appears on the PDF automatically as soon as at least one line has a type.

If no line has a type, Robaws leaves the **Type** column off the PDF.

## Worked example

Road builder **Declercq Infra** wants to distinguish on its quotations between posts that are part of the fixed assignment and posts included as an estimated quantity or pro memoria. Declercq Infra creates the following types:

* **VH** – estimated quantity
* **FH** – lump-sum quantity
* **TP** – transport item
* **PM** – pro memoria (as a reminder, without price)

On the quotation for the development of a housing estate, Declercq Infra gives the earthworks the type **VH**, the 'site signage' post the type **PM** and the supply and removal of materials the type **TP**. Because the **Type** column is on its pdf template, the customer sees these codes neatly in a separate column on the PDF, just like in a classic bill of quantities format.

## Good to know

* The **Type** item is only accessible to users with **administrator rights** (admin).
* A type is a **free label**: it does not trigger any calculation or VAT by itself. It is used to categorise lines and (optionally) to show them on the PDF.
* The codes VH, FH, TP and PM are only **examples**. You decide yourself which types you create and what you call them.
* You do not see the **Type** column on your quotation lines? Then switch on the **Show type (eg. SOG)** setting (step 2).