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Enter Time for Technician Activities

Enter Time for Technician Activities

You can enter time and other information for technician activities – such as meetings, jury duty, sick days, and training – that are set up in Service Management or Schedule, and then change and complete the activities from your mobile device. After you complete an activity, you can sync the activity from the device.

Entering time

  1. Choose Appointments
  2. At the top of the pane, choose the Technician Activities filter. Technician activities that are created in Service Management are displayed. If MobileTech is set up to use time logs, you can easily see which technician activities you're timed into. A clock icon is displayed for these activities.
  3. Select a technician activity and choose More.
  4. Enter information in these fields, as needed.

    FieldDescription

    Activity

    The type of activity that was set up in Service Management. You can't change this value.

    Start Date

    The date that was designated for the activity. You can change the date and time for the activity.

    Estimate Hours

    The hours that were designated for the activity. You can change the estimated hours, unless one or more labor transactions have been saved for the activity.

    Description

    The description of the activity. Limited to 50 characters.

    Status

    The status of the activity.

    Technician

    The technician who is assigned to the activity.

  5. To record the time when you start the activity, select the technician activity and choose Time In to update the time and date of the start of the activity. When you complete the activity, choose Time Out to update the ending time for the activity.  For more information about how to complete information for pay codes for the activity, see Setting up default pay codes.

Completing a technician activity

  1. When you are ready to complete the activity, you can:
    • Select the activity and then select Complete
    • Select the activity, select More. While viewing the activity details you can select the Checkmark icon to Complete.
  2. If you’ve already timed-in to the appointment but haven’t yet timed-out, a message is displayed and you can enter time-out information. 
  3. The activity is removed from the appointment list and can be viewed on your timesheet.