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  1. In Schedule, choose the Hamburger menu  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

  • Geocoding Service Locations
    This process sends 1 request per Service Location address for only those locations that do not yet have latitude/longitude. Once a location has Latitude/Longitude values, Schedule never calls the API again for that location. MobileTech also updates Latitude/Longitude on locations, so a customer who has been using MobileTech may see that some locations already have Latitude/Longitude values. In Schedule, this is the Fetch Coordinates option in the Geocoding window. See Geocoding Service Locations and Technicians for more information. 

  • Geocoding Technician Home Locations
    The first time this process is run, 1 request per Technician is sent because it is passing in their starting address to get a returned Latitude/Longitude. After that, there is no call to Google or Bing API when they are reset to their starting point. We simply copy the defined Latitude/Longitude into the associated vehicle record. The only time it would run again is to get new Latitude/Longitude for new technicians. In Schedule, this is the Fetch Coordinates option in the Geocoding window. See Geocoding Service Locations and Technicians for more information. 
  • Creating new customer locations in Schedule
    A request is sent to get Latitude/Longitude for the new address. See Creating a new customer or Creating a new location.
  • Displaying the map
    Each display of the map is a single request. It passes in an array of Latitude/Longitude values and the API plots those locations on a map. Each time a map is displayed or refreshed is an API request.
  • Optimizing the route for a single technician
    Google has an additional map option that is the Optimize Route feature available when viewing the map for a single technician. In that case, using this feature makes an additional single request to the Route API.

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