With Asset Rules, you get more control over asset management as well as can delegate some of your managerial functions to your trusted providers. All this magic happens through the following set of features:
Pick and use the features that best work for your business.
- Asset scanning: You can enable asset scanning here for SC Mobile and SC Provider users. Additionally, you can specify the scanning method that your technicians and your employees are allowed to use.
- Asset validation: In case you want your technicians to validate assets on work orders before they get down to work, you can enable the asset validation process.
- Changing assets on work orders: How to prevent external providers and SC Mobile users from changing assets on work orders? There is a specific setting for that purpose on the Asset Rules page!
- Asset repair status: An additional feature allows you, for example, to track the whereabouts of the assets that got broken and were moved out of the location to another site for repair.
- NEW Updating asset attributes by providers: Now you can empower your providers to edit asset information on work orders assigned to them.
- NEW Creating new assets by providers: You can let your providers (or the most trusted ones) add new assets to Asset Manager via the SC Provider mobile app or Provider Automation.
Here is how you can match the features to get better asset management experience.
Batch 1
Asset scanning and validation
Batch 2
Asset Management by Providers
Rules for Updating Asset Attributes by Providers
You can empower your providers to edit asset attributes on work orders.
When working on service requests, providers may find that some of the asset data is not up to date or is missing. In this case, they will have the capability to change/add asset information.
Providers can update attributes only for those assets they have been requested to service.
FAQs
Answer
Who can update asset attributes on work orders?
FTM internal techs and external providers
Can only specific providers be empowered to update asset attributes?
You can grant the editing power to the most trusted providers only.
Can we prevent providers from updating certain types of assets?
You can specify which types of assets should never be edited by providers.
Learn more about Assets Types that Can and Cannot Be Edited by Providers.
Where can providers update asset attributes?
Providers can update asset attributes on work orders assigned to them via the SC Provider mobile app.
Which asset attributes providers are allowed to update?
This is controlled on the asset type level. On the asset type details page, you can specify which asset attributes can be edited by providers.
Learn more about What Asset Attributes Can Be Edited by Providers?
How can we learn that providers updated asset data?
On the asset details page in Service Automation, you will see that updated assets have a specific status letting you know about the changes.
Learn more about Reviewing Asset Updates Made by Providers.
- From the hamburger menu, navigate to Assets (Equipments) > Administration.
- Switch to the Asset Rules tab.
- Scroll down to the Allow providers to edit attributes on work order section.
Select the required option:
By default, the rule is set to the All Providers option.
- None: None of your providers (FTM internal or external) will be allowed to modify asset attributes on work orders in SC Provider.
- All providers: All of your providers (FTM internal or external) will be able to modify asset attributes on work orders in SC Provider.
- Selected providers only: You can pick which of your providers should be able to make updates to asset attributes in SC Provider. Click the Add Exceptions button to select the providers.
Instead of or in addition to selecting specific providers that should be included in or excluded from the configured Asset Rules, you can select specific asset types. Learn more about Asset Types that Can/Cannot Be Edited by Providers.
- Click Save at the bottom of the page.
Assets Types that Can/Cannot Be Edited by Providers
With asset types serving as filters, you can prevent your providers from editing some asset types or, vice versa, allow your providers to update only specific asset types.
- On the Asset Rules tab, scroll down to the Allow providers to edit attributes on work order section.
- Select the Selected providers only radio button, and then click Add Exceptions.
In the overlay that appears, select either the Included Asset Type(s) or Excluded Asset Type(s) radio button.
- Included Asset Type(s): Only assets of the types you select in step 4 can be edited by providers.
- Excluded Asset Type(s): Providers can edit assets of all the types except for the types you pick in step 4.
- In the drop-down below the radio buttons, pick the required asset types.
- If you don’t want to pick specific providers, leave the providers field blank.
If you want to restrict the providers’ editing power by an asset type + provider combo, then pick the corresponding options from both the providers list and the asset types list.
Click Save in the overlay. You get back to the main Asset Rules page.
Click Save at the bottom of the page to capture the changes.
What Asset Attributes Can Be Edited by Providers?
Providers’ editing power is not unlimited. It can be restricted by identifying the asset attributes your providers can and cannot modify.
Besides, all the updates from providers go through the review process, where a designated Asset Manager checks the suggested updates and then either approves or removes them.
- From the hamburger menu, navigate to the Manage Asset Types page.
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Click the desired asset type to configure the editing rules.
You land on the asset type details page.- Scroll down to the Standard Attributes section.
- Select the Edit checkbox next to the standard asset attributes that you want your providers to be able to update.The changes you make are saved automatically.
If you want to make some of your custom attributes editable as well, scroll down to the Custom Attributes section, and select the Edit checkbox next to the desired attributes.
- Repeat steps 1–5 to configure editing rules for other asset types.
Now that you have configured the editing rules, your providers can update the specified asset attributes on work orders assigned to them.
Rules for Creating New Assets by Providers
New assets can now be added by providers. While completing a service request assigned to them, providers may need to create a new asset and associate it with the service request via the SC Provider mobile app.
On the Asset Rules tab, locate the Asset Change rule, and ensure it is set to Yes.
If you don’t empower your providers to change assets on work orders, providers will not be able to create new assets and link them to WOs.
Scroll down to the Allow providers to create assets section, and select the required option:
- None: None of your providers (FTM internal or external) will be allowed to create new assets from work orders in SC Provider.
- All providers: All of your providers (FTM internal or external) will be able to create new assets from work orders in SC Provider.
- Selected providers only: You can pick which of your providers should be able to create assets in SC Provider. Click the Add Exceptions button to select the providers.
Instead of or in addition to selecting specific providers that should be included in or excluded from the configured Asset Rules, you can select specific asset types.
- Click Save in the Add Exceptions overlay. You go back to the main Asset Rules page.
- Click Save at the bottom of the page to capture your changes.
When a provider creates a new asset and associates it with the assigned work order, you will be able to navigate to the asset detailed view from the work order. Note that the asset will have the New Unconfirmed status until you confirm this addition.