You can inactivate a piece of equipment so that it cannot be referenced in Equipment Management or processed for new sales, rentals, or transports. In addition, inactive equipment cannot be transferred, have attachments transferred to or from it, be maintained for service readings, or be serviced with scheduled maintenance.
If If necessary, inactive equipment can be placed on a service call in Signature Service Management; however, the equipment will not appear on any Equipment Management transaction windows and therefore cannot be placed on a new Equipment Management document. Transactions can only be completed for inactive equipment if the equipment is already on rent or being processed on a document at the time of inactivation. If the equipment is already on rent, the On Rent date/time cannot be changed unless the equipment is reactivated.
You You can also inactivate equipment for rental only, either indefinitely or over a specified period of time. See Rental Inactivation tab.
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