How to create locations?

How to add a location?

The creation of locations is a critical step for the configuration of the system. Besides setting which locations are subject to maintenance, locations will also contain the assets.



To create a location, select the option Assets | Locations:

  1. Presents the location list;
  2. Press the "Create" button;

When creating a location, you must consider:

i.
When creating a location, it will be automatically associated to the workshop and access level by default.

ii.
It is automatically created as "Available" and the entry date to the current service.

iii.
See Quick Guide: press user icon and select the option Quick Guide.

Location Characteristics

  • In the Characteristics tab, you can assign one or more characteristics to the location function. These can be of the following types:
  1. Number;
  2. Text;
  3. Date/Time;
  4. Boolean;
  5. Enum.
  • When saving the location function record, the following validations regarding the characteristics are made:
    1. No repeated characteristics can exist
    2. Number type characteristics:  checks if the text inserted on the Value field is a number. The number of decimal places associated to that characteristics unit is also checked, as well as if the tab matches the user language;
    3. Date/time type characteristics:  checks if the text inserted on the Value field is a date and/or a time.
    4. Boolean type characteristics: checks if the text inserted on the Value field is 0 for False and 1 for True;
    5. Enum type characteristics:  checks if the Enum value matches the values for the selected characteristic.



There are a few rules to edit Locations, among them:

 - It is only possible to edit the service date if there are no down times reports.

 

When creating a new location, this is placed as "Available" and the "Service Date" as the current day.

If the asset was not created as Available, after the Service Date, the asset is placed automatically as available.

To automatically make it available, you must select the option "Definitions | Work | Background Services" and activate the Downtime.



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