On Jul 29, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Adrian Crum wrote:
My work on Fixed Asset Maintenance and the Asset Maintenance
component is nearly complete. I have a few remaining questions and
ideas.
1. The trunk includes the new Asset Maintenance feature that
automatically assigns parties to the Fixed Asset Maintenance Work
Effort. If a party is related to the Fixed Asset in one of the
maintenance roles, then they are automatically assigned to the work
effort when a new maintenance is created. Should I move this feature
to Accounting->Fixed Assets?
Are you saying that this is in WorkEffort now or something? If that is
what you mean then I'd say it should be in the accounting component
because in this case the FixedAsset stuff is using the WorkEffort
stuff so FixedAsset is higher level than WorkEffort meaning that
FixedAsset needs to know about WorkEffort, but WorkEffort doesn't need
to know about FixedAsset. So, it should go in the FixedAsset area.
2. The fixed asset maintenance status must be changed manually. I
would like to see the status updated automatically - based upon work
effort activity. When an assigned worker accepts a fixed asset
maintenance work effort, I'd like to see the maintenance status
change to either Scheduled or In Process. When all related work
effort statuses are set to Completed, I'd like to see the
maintenance status set to completed.
Sounds good.
3. The Fixed Asset has a field called dateLastServiced that must be
updated manually. I would like to see that field updated
automatically with the date that the most recent fixed asset
maintenance was completed.
Sounds good too as something to automate. The field is a little
funny... what does in mean in cases where there are multiple
maintenances that need to done on an asset and on different intervals?
Is this just the last date any maintenance was done on it? I guess
that's okay, as long as it is clear.
-David
