Handling Production Ranges in Notes

If you have an application like the following:

1988-1991 Ford Mustang … To 10-31-90

You’d need to create an OR map on the Comment Mapping screen. For example:

To 10/31/90 <N>(1990-1991)
<<ignore>> (To 1989)

What this would do is place the “To 10/31/90” note on 1990 and 1991 applications but leave it off of applications through 1989. (If the note is included on years after 1991, those applications would not go out.) The years in parenthesis are set on the Comment Mapping screen at the bottom right.

The <<ignore>> happens in this case when you only have a year restriction with nothing else and means the comment will be ignored for those years.

“From” ranges are very similar. If, for example, you have an application like the following:

1988-1991 Ford Mustang … To 10-31-88

You’d need to create an OR map on the Comment Mapping screen such as:

From 10/31/88 <N>(1988-1989)
<<ignore>> (From 1990)

From the main Comment Mapping screen, you can use the “Map Date Range” (Ctrl-D) to create these maps automatically. You might need to modify the years, however, to account for changes in model year cutoff months.