When you configure a project, Save & Add WPS asks how the project will use the WPS and welders. This article is about the second choice, "I will select the WPS and welders for this project". Read the article Configuring a project for the first part of the configuration.

Selecting the WPS keeps your WPS & PQR repository private. A user who is on a project but has no access to the repository, for example a subcontractor's welding supervisor, sees only the WPS selected for the project. With "use all", every WPS shows in the weld log, and once a WPS is picked for a weld, its document can be opened from the weld's details page: a way into the repository that you did not intend to give.

The cost is choosing the WPS one project at a time from what may be hundreds. The search below lets you filter the list and load many WPS at once, and shows how many welders and machines each WPS has, so you can see which WPS are ready to use before you add them.

Open the page with the + WPS button on the project's Project Info page, or with Save & Add WPS when you first configure the project. + WPS is greyed out on a project that uses all WPS and welders. Click "Explain this function" next to the page title for a narrated walkthrough of the page.

Step 1 - The WPS, welders and machines in the project

1. WPS# - Rev: the WPS already in the project. A WPS used in at least one weld cannot be removed;
2. Welders, deemed and machines: under each WPS number, how many welders, deemed welders and welding machines can be selected for it (Step 2 explains what is counted). It shows in the warning colour when the WPS has no welder at all;
3. Remove: click the red "x" to take a WPS out of the project. It does not show for a WPS that is used in a weld;
4. Add WPS: opens the search, to add more WPS to the project;
5. Save: save the changes. Cancel leaves the page without saving.

You can come back to this page at any time to add WPS, welders and machines, or to remove those that are not used.

Step 2 - Search for WPS

The search lists the qualified and prequalified WPS in your repository that are not in the project yet.

1. Process: pick one or more welding processes to list only the WPS that use them;
2. General Search: type part of a WPS number, title, standard, designation, PQR number, joint type, product form, position or process, or a thickness or diameter the WPS covers;
3. Range Qualified: type a value the WPS must qualify, for example a thickness, diameter, P-Number or position;
4. Matching WPS: the number of WPS listed;
5. Welders, Deemed and Machines: how many of each the WPS has:
   • Welders: active welders with an active qualification (WPQ) for the WPS whose continuity has not lapsed on all of root, fill and cap;
   • Deemed: other active welders deemed qualified for the WPS. Deemed qualifications are counted when they are enabled for your account, on the Admin page under Deemed Qualifications;
   • Machines: active welding machines qualified on the WPS;
6. Select: tick the WPS to add, or Select All to tick every WPS listed;
7. Load WPS: adds the ticked WPS to the project and closes the search.

A WPS with no welders and no deemed welders can still be added, but no weld can be given a welder for it until a welder is qualified on it.

Step 3 - Select the welders and machines

1. Welder - WPQ # & Rev: click the field to list the welders qualified on the WPS, and pick the welders the project may use. Welders whose continuity has lapsed, whose qualification is inactive, or who are inactive are shown in red and cannot be picked;
2. The welders picked: each welder picked is added below the field. Click the "x" beside a welder to remove them. A welder already used on a weld with this WPS cannot be removed;
3. Machine ID: click the field to pick the welding machines the project may use with the WPS. Inactive machines are shown in red and cannot be picked;
4. The machines picked: click the "x" beside a machine to remove it;
5. Save: save the WPS, welders and machines for the project.

When deemed qualifications are enabled for your account, the welders deemed qualified for the WPS are listed in the welder field under "Deemed Qualifications", after the qualified welders, and are picked the same way.

Only the welders and machines picked here are offered on the welds of the project for that WPS.