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The appointment wizard Appointment Wizard helps you to quickly create single or recurring activities or job/service appointments for technician(s), a technician team, or a service area. Appointments created with the appointment wizard are Appointment Wizard are assigned a Group ID. You can use the Group ID to view related appointments from the Service Appointment, Service Call, and/or Job Appointment windows. See Working with related appointments and/or resource activities for more information.

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  1. From the schedule board, right-click on a resource, any appointment/activity, or in an empty cell on the schedule board.
  2. Choose Appointment Wizard.
  3. Mark the radio button for who you are creating this activity/appointment for.
    • All
      All technicians will be assigned.
    • Technician
      One or more technicians selected will be assigned. You can also choose UNASSIGNED. 

      Note

      The technician name defaults in if you are accessing the Appointment Wizard from the Schedule Board. If you select a service call or job that the technician does not have access to (based on Global Filtering), the Resource field is cleared so that you can choose the appropriate technician. You can edit or add additional technicians from the Resource drop-down.


    • Technician Team
      All technicians within the selected team will be assigned.
    • Service Area
      All technicians within the service area selected will be assigned.
  4. Choose the Appointment Type:
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Service Call Appointment

Continuing from the steps above for creating a single or recurring service appointment:

  1. Choose the Appointment Type of Service Call.
  2. Choose the Service Call.
  3. Choose the Resource, Technician Team, or Service Area to assign the appointment to. If you chose to assign this to All, these fields will be disabled. 

  4. Enter a Description.
  5. Choose the Appointment Status.
  6. The Start Date defaults to today's date and midnight. You can edit the date and time. 

    Note

    The time defaults in if you are accessing the Appointment Wizard from an empty cell on the Schedule Board, the time defaults from the time cell that you right-clicked on. The time is editable.


  7. The End Date defaults to today's date.
  8. Enter the Estimated Hours.
  9. Enter the number of Days Between Appointments. For example, if you have a date range entered above and enter 2, this will create an appointment every two days.
  10. Mark the weekend days to skip from scheduling appointments. Both Saturday and Sunday default as marked to skip.
  11. Choose Create.
  12. Review the validation window, then choose to continue or cancel the process.

Job Appointment

  1. Choose the Appointment Type of Job.
  2. Choose the Job Number.
  3. Choose the Cost Code.
  4. Choose the Technician, Technician Team, or Service Area to assign the appointment to. If you chose to assign this to All, these fields will be disabled.
  5. Enter a Description.
  6. Choose the Appointment Status.
  7. The Start Date defaults to today's date and midnight. You can edit the date and time. 

    Note

    If you are accessing the Appointment Wizard from an empty cell on the Schedule Board, the time defaults from the time cell that you right-clicked on. The time is editable.


  8. The End Date defaults to today's date.
  9. Enter the Estimated Hours.
  10. Enter the number of Days Between Appointments. For example, if you have a date range entered above and enter 2, this will create an appointment every two days.
  11. Mark the weekend days to skip from scheduling appointments.
  12. Choose Create.
  13. Review the validation window, then choose to continue or cancel the process.

Technician Activity

  1. Choose the Appointment Type of Technician Activity.
  2. Choose the Activity ID.
  3. Choose the Technician, Technician Team, or Service Area to assign the appointment to. If you chose to assign this to All, these fields will be disabled.
  4. Enter a Description.
  5. Choose the Appointment Status.
  6. The Start Date defaults to today's date and midnight. You can edit the date and time.

    Note

    If you are accessing the Appointment Wizard from an empty cell on the Schedule Board, the time defaults from the time cell that you right-clicked on. The time is editable.


  7. The End Date defaults to today's date.
  8. Enter the Estimated Hours.
  9. Enter the number of Days Between Appointments. For example, if you have a date range entered above and enter 2, this will create an appointment every two days.
  10. Mark the weekend days to skip from scheduling appointments.
  11. Choose Create.
  12. Review the validation window, then choose to continue or cancel the process.