How to Action Planned Work Orders from Planned Work Orders Page

How to Action Planned Work Orders from Planned Work Orders Page

This article is relevant for version 18 and above.

An Overview of Planned Work Orders Page

With the new planned work orders page, You can now efficiently manage all planned work orders from a single interface. It is an ideal place for the maintenance team to action the planned work orders. 

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Please see the following sections below for more information on each function.


How to Allocate/Re-allocate

With the allocation function (), users are able to manually allocate single or multiple jobs to employees or contractors with automatic notifications. For the allocated jobs, you can also re-allocate them to other employees to balance the workload if required.

Refer to the attachment for the steps to allocate/ reallocate jobs. 

Video on how to allocate/re-allocate from Planned Work order order list


How to Print

With the print function (), users can manually print single or multiple work orders.


Refer to the attachment for the steps to print single or multiple work orders. 

3. Video on How to Print from Planned Work order order list

How to Email

With the email function (), users are able to email single or multiple jobs to multiple employees, their supervisors and contractors to inform them about the jobs.

Refer to the attachment for the steps to email single or multiple work orders. 

4. Video on How to Email Work Orders from Planned Work order  order list

How to Update

With the update function (), users are able to edit any information or add information regarding the work order with automatic notifications. For example, Reason not complete, contractors and labour

Refer to the attachment for the steps to update the work order. 

5. Video on How to Update from Planned Work order  order list

How to Start and stop work

The “Start and Stop Work” function allows improved reporting and accurate job tracking.

Here are the key features:
-Your employees can Start Work to commence work on a specific job and Stop Work on the same job
without completing or updating it.
- The ‘start’ and ‘stop’ functions allow for multiple people on the same job, and multiple times on the same job.

-If you are starting and stopping work, the actual duration of the job will be automatically updated.

- Start/stop work on a job is optional, the software will not force you to start work to update or complete the job.

Refer to the attachment for the steps to start and stop work.

6. Video on How to start and stop work from Planned Work order order list

How to Complete

With the complete function, users can complete the work order when all the work is finished.

Once the work order is completed,

-the system automatically stops all employees on this work order.

-the system automatically updates the last done date so the routine is next due at correct time

Refer to the attachment for the steps to complete the work order. 

7. Video on How to Complete from Planned Work order order list


How to Cancel

With the cancel function, users can cancel the work order when the job will no longer be done.

Please note that It is unable to undo it after the job got cancelled. So Only the users in charge should be permitted to use this function responsibly.

Refer to the attachment for the steps to cancel the work order. 

8. Video on How to cancel from Planned Work order  order list


Learn More

There are different areas in the system where you can perform various actions on the planned work orders. Refer to the following articles for more information.

  1. Overview on How to Action Planned Work Orders


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