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  1. In Schedule, choose the Menu  icon and then choose General Settings.
  2. In Company Options under Schedule Configuration, in the Mapping Options section, choose one of the following:
  3. Complete the following setup options:
    • Use Status to Trigger Resource Location Change: If marked, when an appointment status is changed to the specified Status, the location of the technician will update on the map.
    • Break Duration (min): Enter the number of minutes for a technician's break that will be used if you are route planning.
    • Round-up Start Time: Choose the number of minutes to round up to the start time.
    • Icons: You can accept the default icons that display on the map or you can choose different icons at http://fontawesome.io/icons/
  4. Choose Save.

 When the Google or Bing APIs are called

  1. Process Locations option in settings - 1 request per address for only those locations that do not yet have latitude/longitude.
    • Once a location has lat/long values, Schedule never calls the API again for that location.
    • To add, MobileTech also updates lat/long on locations, so a customer who has been using MobileTech may see that some locations already have lat/long values.
  2. When new customer locations are created in Schedule, the solution makes a request to get Latitude/Longitude for that address.
  3. Process Employees - First time it’s run– uses 1 request per Technician because it’s passing in their starting address to get a returned lat/long. After that - no call to Google or Bing API when they are reset to their starting point. We simply copy the defined lat/long into the associated vehicle record. The only time it would run again is to get new lat/long for new technicians.
  4. Showing the Map -Each display of the map is a single request. It passes in an array of lat/long values and the API plots those locations on a map. Each time a map is displayed or refreshed -> that’s a request.