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# Posts | Settings

Posts do not have a settings page of their own. The settings that determine how your posts work are spread across the **quotation settings**, the **general settings** and the **user roles**. In this article we list them per location. How to build up a post itself is explained in [Posts | General](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/posts-general-inoedz/).

| After every change in the settings, click **Activate settings** at the bottom right. Otherwise your changes are not applied in your Robaws environment.

## Quotation settings

Go to **Settings > Quotations**. You can find all quotation settings in [Quotations | Settings](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/quotations-settings-1emzmmi/); these have an influence on your posts.

#### Settings

| Setting | Explanation |
| ---- |
| Calculation | Switches the calculation on. Only then does the **Calculated item** action button appear in the item overview, which takes you to your post library. |
| Show post nr. | Adds the **Post** column to the quotation lines. If you choose a post, the post number appears in that column. |
| Show line nrs. | Adds the **Nr.** column to the quotation lines and the **Nr.** field to the post file. If you choose a post, that number becomes the line number, unless the line already has a number. |
| Direct cost sharing depending on price | Determines how the direct costs are shared across the lines without a **Cost allocation percentage**: evenly across the lines, or in proportion to the price of the line. Lines with a cost allocation percentage always get that percentage. More explanation in [Adding direct and indirect costs to your quotation](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/adding-direct-and-indirect-costs-to-your-quotation-cevyc/) |

#### Pdf

| Setting | Explanation |
| ---- |
| Ignore 'Show composite line' from lines | A setting per pdf template, under **Templates**. If it is switched on, the build-up of all lines appears on the pdf, even if **Show composite line on PDF** is switched off on the line. This way you can, for example, make a separate pdf with the full build-up for internal use. You can read more about pdf templates in [Deciding what appears on your pdf](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/deciding-what-appears-on-your-pdf-e26zjo/) |

## General settings

Go to **Settings > General**. You can find all general settings in [General | Settings](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/general-settings-1han2yn/).

#### Master data

| Setting | Explanation |
| ---- |
| Gl-account | (under **Financial**) If you switch this on, the post file gets the **Gl-account Sales** and **Gl-account Purchase** fields. See [Working with GL accounts](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/working-with-gl-accounts-u6n102/). |
| Activities | (under **Others**) If you switch this on, the calculation of the post gets the **Activity** column. See [Working with activities](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/working-with-activities-nhyj6m/). |
| Unit types | (under **Others**) The units you can choose on the post and on the calculation lines. See [Working with unit types](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/working-with-unit-types-1gs3057/). |
| Type | (under **Others**) The types, such as SOG or VH, that you can choose in the **Type** field of the post. See [Creating and using types](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/creating-and-using-types-eg-fh-vh-144ct4x/). |

#### Settings

| Setting | Explanation |
| ---- |
| Restrict post to offers | If this is switched on, you can only choose posts in quotations and not in the lines of other modules, such as orders, invoices or supply orders. |

#### Amount #decimals

| Setting | Explanation |
| ---- |
| Amount #decimals | To how many decimals quantities are rounded and shown. If you round to, for example, 3 decimals in a formula, also set this to at least 3. |
| Purchaseprice #decimals | To how many decimals cost prices are rounded, including the cost prices in the calculation of a post. |
| Sale price #decimals | To how many decimals sales prices are rounded, including the prices in the calculation of a post. |

#### Pdf

Under **Styling** you create the 8 [layout styles](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/creating-different-layout-styles-1l4kold/) that you choose in the **Level** field of a post. In the table with the line types you link a layout style and a font size to each line type; a quotation line gets that layout with the line type you choose in the **Line** field of the post. More explanation in [Working with line types and chapters](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/working-with-line-types-and-chapters-536ga0/).

## User roles

In a user role, under the **Items** module, there is a **Calculated item** tick box. You can only tick it if the role is allowed to view the items. If you tick it, the user gets access to the posts and the posts follow the permissions of the items module: anyone who may change or delete items may also do so for posts. Without this tick box, the user does not see the **Calculated item** action button. More explanation in [Setting up the permissions of your users](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/setting-up-the-permissions-of-your-users-7wabst/)

| The **Additional line items** setting in the item settings only applies to items. The additional line items of a post are always taken over in the quotation, even if that setting is switched off.