Mobile workers
need faster response from their applications
when working remotely, and so the start and stop timers trigger combined
features when you are working remotely. This way, mobile workers can
start or stop work orders, and change their statuses, by simply clicking
the Start Timer or Stop Timer icons.
On a mobile environment,
the start timer starts
the labor timer
to track the amount of labor hours and sets the work order status
to In Progress (INPRG). The stop timer stops the labor timer so the
labor transaction is completed and changes the status of the work
order to Complete (COMP).
Security settings for status change
actions are applied to these
features. If a user has no authority to place a work order in progress,
and the labor timer is started, the status does not change.
- Start Timer
- The Start Timer icon
starts the labor timer.
To combine the start of the labor timer with its work order status
change, in the Organizations application, you must select the Automatically
change work order status to INPRG when a user starts a labor timer check
box. If this check box is selected, the status changes to In Progress
when the timer is started on a work order.
- Stop
Timer
- The Stop Timer icon stops the
labor timer.
The mobile worker can also change the status to Complete by clicking
the icon. You can define the default behavior of the confirmation
window by setting, in the Organizations application, the By
default, change the work order status to COMP when a user stops a
labor timer check box. If this check box is selected,
the status changes to Complete when the timer is stopped on a work
order.
If you want to be able to override the automatic
status
change by clicking the
Stop Timer icon, you
must change the setup to display the confirmation window. In the confirmation
window, select the
Change work order status to Complete check
box, which overrides the original setting made in the Organizations
application.
You can display the confirmation window by selecting
the System
Settings action in the Organizations application. The Confirm
time calculated by timer check box, under the Timer section,
is marked by default which means that the window is always displayed
to the user. If you choose to turn off the confirmation window, you
cannot select the check box that confirms the status change.
If
the confirmation window is not displayed, but the By
default, change the work order status to COMP when a user stops a
labor timer check box is selected in the Organizations
application, the work order status is changed to Complete anyway.