Equipment Management Workbench user settings

When the Type field is set to Relative and the specified +/-Days range is set to a value beyond 90 days, a disclaimer message is displayed to indicate that performance issues can occur in the application. The specified value is accepted only when you accept the disclaimer message.

In this section, you can set these values:

• Map Zoom Level: The default zoom level of the map for the workbench.
• Pushpin Size: The default size of the pushpin to be displayed on the map.
• Enable Zoom: Select this check box to enable the zoom in and zoom out on the map.
• GPS Latitude (WGS84), GPS Longitude (WGS84): Specify the location to zoom in the map when the workbench is launched.
• Show Location: Select this check box to show the Location section.
• Proximity Circle Radius: Specify the radius of the proximity circle drawn surrounding the selected unassigned equipment rental agreement.
• Show Vendors:
  • Inside Proximity Circle: Select this check box to show vendors inside the proximity circle.
  • Outside Proximity Circle: Select this check box to show vendors outside the proximity circle.

• Average Travel Speed: The average travel speed to reach the location of the serialized item.
• Travel Offset Time: The offset time for a visit to the location of the serialized item.

• Auto Refresh: Select this check box to enable auto refresh of the data displayed in the workbench. You can also set the duration after which the data must be refreshed.
• Exclude Departments: Select the departments that must be excluded from the workbench.
• Exclude Employees: Select the employees that must be excluded from the workbench.
• Copy User Settings from: Select the name of the user whose user settings must be copied to the current workbench user.
• Grid Page Size: The default page size for the Activities grid.
• Display Density: Workbench adopts to the selected display density.

In this section, you can define these values related to the time for the Gantt:

• Time Scale: You can define the time scale for the Gantt. Possible values:
  • Today
  • Current Week
  • Current Month
  • Current Quarter
• Today: The number of working hours that must be displayed for a day and the starting time for the day.
• Week: The number of working days that must be displayed for a week and the starting day of the week.
• Hide Friday & Saturday: Select this check box to hide the Friday and Saturday from the Gantt.
• Month View: You can set the Gantt period to one or two months.
  Note: The Time Scale View must be set to Month View to view the one or two months range.
• Hide Saturday: Select this check box to hide the Saturday from the Gantt.
• Hide Sunday: Select this check box to hide the Sunday from the Gantt.
• Set Day Hours: Select this check box to specify the working hours in a day.

• Enable Create or Change Working Hour Defaults: Select this check box to default the values defined in this section in the ‘Create or Change Working Hour’ dialog.
• Availability: Select this check box to create/modify available working hour.
• Time From: Select the default time from for the working hour.
• Time To: Select the default time to for the working hour.
• Working Hours Type: Select the default working hour type.
• Description: Select the default description for working hour.
• Duration: Select the maximum days allowed between the Start Time and End Time.

• Show Available Resources: Select this check box to display the available resources in the Gantt.
• Ignore Skills & Available Resources: Select this check box to ignore the skills and the available resources.
• Freeze Gantt Scale: Select this check box to freeze the Gantt scale.
• Round Drop Time to: Select a value to define the granularity of related drop in time. When we drag and drop an activity bar on Gantt, the time rounding is done based on this value.
• Show Activity Constraints: Select this check box to view the first two rows of the Gantt.
• Show Employees With Effective Skills: Select this check box to consider effective date of the skill when filtering the employees based on skills.
• Show Picture: Select this check box to display the picture of the employee/equipment on the Gantt resource.
• Show Conflict Indicator on Activity Bar: Select this check box to view the conflict indicator on the Planned Timeline. When this check box is selected, the conflict icon is also displayed on the Activity bar.
• Show Calendar Working Hour Description: Select this check box to view the calendar working hour description on the Gantt row.
• Compact Overlapped Activities: Select this check box to reduce the gap between the overlapped activities.
• Show Travel Indicator: Select this check box to show a travel indicator based on the planned or actual travel times on the Gantt activity bar (employee assignment).
• You can also set colors for Planned Indicator, Earliest Latest, Highlight Border, and Period (Rental)

• Show Service User Profile Departments: Select this check box to show the only departments defined in the service user profile in the workbench.
• Activity Block Description: The selected values are displayed in the activity bar.
• Color Procedure: You can define the colors for the activity bar based on the Color Procedure. For example, if the Status is selected, the colors defined for the activity status such as Free, Released, and Planned are displayed.
• Exclude Service Order Series: The order series to be excluded from the workbench.

• Activity Use (General): You can define the type of activity that is to be used.