The ShopMap palette stores information about the materials and equipment that your shop will use with Pandora jobs. Enter information about these resources into your ShopMap palette to make them available for reuse, rather than entering resource specifications every time you start a new Pandora job, or add an installation of Pandora.
You can add resources to the ShopMap palette by typing the information or by importing data from the ShopMap palette of another installation of Pandora. After you create a resource on the ShopMap palette, you can add it to any job by dragging it from the ShopMap palette to the layout view. ShopMap materials appear in the layout view and on the appropriate tab in job properties. ShopMap equipment appears only in job properties.
You can share a single instance of the resources (plates, film, substrate, press, output devices) contained in your ShopMap between installations of the software. You can place your ShopMap on a shared network drive and access this data from Pandora installed on various computers. Sharing ShopMap data between computers makes managing your ShopMap resources easier, and allows you to quickly set up a new installation of the software.