If you are a site visit manager (having Site Visit Admin permission), use the Site Visits dialog to create site visits to be delivered to disconnected devices by field service technicians.
If you are a field service technician (having Site Visit User permission), use the dialog to view the site visits that your site visit manager has assigned to you.
NOTE: System administrators can view all site visits currently in the system.
Depending on your site visit permission, you can either view the site visits you created or those that are assigned to you.
To create a site visit, click
Add to open the New Site Visit
dialog.
To delete a site visit, select it on the list and click
Delete . CAUTION! Be sure
to follow the guidelines for deletion in the Best Practice under Deleting site visits (in Managing site visits); otherwise
data may be lost.
Site Visits created by <user> / assigned to <user> / for <device/group> |
Identifies the current context of the list of site visits, depending on the filter (see next) and the selected device or group. |
My Site Visits / Device or Group |
A means to filter the list of site visits:
NOTE: If you are a system administrator, you can view all site visits, and you can elect to view completed (reconciled) site visits. |
Show Completed |
Select this check box to show those site visits that have been completed. |
Name |
The name of the site visit. |
Device or Group |
The name of the device or group of devices for which the site visit is intended. |
Delivery By |
The date on which the technician is expected to deliver the site visit on-site. |
State |
The current state of the site visit, such as ReadyForDownload, Downloaded, or Activated. (For descriptions of these and other possible site visit states, see State History tab below.) |
Assigned To |
The name of the field service technician to whom the site visit is assigned. |
Created By |
The name of the user who created the site visit. |
This tab provides further details about the selected site visit. If you are the user who created the site visit, you may edit the site visit (under the noted conditions).
Name |
Same as Name above. So long as the site visit has not yet been downloaded, the user who created the site visit may edit the name (up to 255 characters). NOTE: See also the Best Practice in the New Site Visit dialog topic regarding using names that are meaningful from the field service technician's point-of-view. |
Device or Group |
Same as Device or Group above. |
Delivery By |
Same as Delivery By above. So long as the site visit has not been downloaded, the user who created the site visit may edit the date. |
Assigned To |
The name of the technician to whom the site visit is assigned. So long as the site visit has not been downloaded, the user who created the site visit may change the assignment. |
Items to Deliver |
The total number of pending messages for the device or group of devices. |
Device Summary |
Summary information about the devices for which the site visit is destined.
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This tab provides information about the history of the selected site visit, from creation through reconciliation.
State |
The state of the site visit:
|
Date |
The date and time at which the site visit entered this state. |
Name |
The name of the user whose action put the site visit in this state. |
Notes |
System-created information regarding the site visit. |