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[Vulkanis]

When your in a late game fortress (4 to 5 hours of play) and your getting droves of migrants and around 70% of those migrants are cheese makers its quite the hassle to assign useful jobs to all of them. So what if you could assign a dwarf a job you created from a template yourself.

For example

BEFORE
Urist McMigrant

"Cheese Maker"

Farming and related  [X]
Stoneworking           [  ]
Woodworking            [  ]
Stone Hauling           [  ]
Wood Hauling           [  ]
Food Hauling            [  ]
Furniture Hauling       [  ]
Healthcare               [X]
Metalworking            [  ]
etc....

If you changed the job title to a template you made for example "hauler"

AFTER
Urist McMigrant

"Hauler"

Farming and related  [  ]
Stoneworking           [  ]
Woodworking            [  ]
Stone Hauling           [X]
Wood Hauling           [X]
Food Hauling            [X]
Furniture Hauling       [X]
Finshed goods hauling [X]
Healthcare               [X]
Metalworking            [  ]

The title would act like a template in the fact that it would automatically enable the jobs you assigned to that title template and disable ones that you didn't assign, of course this wouldn't be useful when you have 7 to 12 dwarves but late-game when you need to micro-manage jobs crazily this would be a god-send.

[Vulkanis]

bump

[j0nas]

I agree that this would improve the current system, but as the current in-game system is painful enough to use to be bordering on broken already I don't think it would be of much practical use.  I would recommend you instead use one of the existing utilities like dwarf foreman/dwarf manager/dwarf therapist or whatever may be the current flavor.  Any of these could implement something like this in a much easier to use way, and even if they do not they will make the task of managing dwarves a lot easier anyway.

Maybe you already knew about these apps, but for those that haven't yet discovered them, links can be found at:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Utilities