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Job Activities And Required Items

Published documentation for BMS Cloud.

Job activities and required items

An activity is one attempt at a job — one visit. A job has an activity for each attempt, tabbed across the top of the job screen and numbered in order; the highest number is the live one. Job RJ-P036593 on its second attempt is referred to as RJ-P036593-2.

What an activity carries

Field Description
Assigned To The engineer, or the service agent where the agent dispatches its own
Email Assignee Whether assignment notifies the assignee
Chargeable? Whether this visit's work is chargeable to the customer
Raised When the activity was created
Customer Reference The customer's own reference for this visit

Asset Details describes the machine the visit is against: Serial, Product, Site Location, Condition, SLA, and Import Source where the asset came from an integration rather than being keyed in.

Activity actions

Action Effect
Progress Activity Moves the activity to its next state — the main control
Generate Backorders Raises backorders for required items that are not in stock
More Options Further actions for the activity
Delete Activity Removes the activity
Edit Details Assignee, chargeability and references
Edit Assets The assets this activity is against

Required Items

The parts and labour the visit needs.

Column Description
Type Where the line comes from — Stock for a part drawn from a holding
Product Product code
Description Product description
Location The warehouse the part is expected from
Linked Asset The asset the part is for, where the visit covers more than one
Qty Quantity required
Chargeable Whether the line is charged to the customer
Sell Price Charge for the line
Invoiced Quantity already invoiced

Three column groups sit above the grid — Backorders, Allocated and Invoicing (ex Tax) — each with a View link that expands that side of the line.

Important

Parts, engineer time and charges belong to the activity, not the job. Job totals are the sum of its activities' lines. A job with no activities has nothing on it, whatever its description says.

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