Material

Materials encompass equipment or components that can be allocated to a Scheduled Task (survey or repair) or Incident.

Material numbers and cost details are defined in the Material object property sheet (See Material Data Fields (Collection), Material Data Fields (Distribution)and Material Data Fields (Asset) for details on available fields). These details can then be used to calculate estimated and actual numbers and costs of associated scheduled tasks.

Materials can be viewed and edited from the Material Grid Window in the Resource Grid.

To create a new Material, manually enter the corresponding data in the Material tab of the Resource Grid . Please refer to the Digitising Network Objects topic for further information.

Use the Navigate |To Related Objects () toolbar option from the Material tabbed Property Sheet or the Object Properties Window to open the Property Sheet for the associated scheduled tasks (repairs or surveys) or orders containing that material, and vice-versa.

Alternatively launch the Object Browser Window to displays object relationships and manage related objects.

Materials can be associated to scheduled tasks or incidents in the corresponding object property sheet. Please refer to the Resourcing Objects topic for more details.