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Selecting the Data Shown in the Building Operations Console

The Building Operations Console displays key pieces of information about your work requests. However, you can select the fields that you want to display in the console, and can change the number of lines that are shown for work descriptions.

Note: The Highlight escalated requests option is not used for Quick-Start.

Selecting the work request fields

You might find that you wish to hide some of this information or display additional information that is hidden by default. For example, you might wish to see who has been assigned to a work request, or the Date Requested to help you better evaluate if work is progressing as expected. Similarly, you may wish to hide a field that is not vital to your day-to-day work. You can change this using the Select Work Requests Field command accessed from the Gear Icon at the top of the console.

With this command, you can:

Note that the changes you make stay in effect, even if you sign out of ARCHIBUS.

Changing the group of fields and their display order can be very important when exporting your data to Excel or Word. For example, if you want to export this data to Excel and then merge it with existing spreadsheet, it is important that the appropriate fields display and that they display in the correct order so that you can later merge the two files.

To select the fields to hide or show:

  1. Load the Building Operations Console.
  2. At the top of the console, click the Gear icon .
  3. From the drop-down menu, click Select Work Request Fields.
  4. The system displays the Select Fields form, listing the hidden fields (the Available list) and fields that appear on the Building Operations Console (the Visible list).

  5. Select a field and use the Show and Hide buttons to move it between the Available and Visible lists.

    Note: The Action 1 (Estimate), Action 2 (Schedule), Action 3, (Issue) and Action 4 (Cancel) fields are the actions button shown in the console. You can change the order of these buttons, but you cannot hide them.

  6. To change the location of a field on the Building Operations Console, use the Up and Down buttons. ARCHIBUS displays the fields left to right in the frame according to the top-to-bottom order of the list in the Visible Fields section of the Select Fields form.
  7. When satisfied with your list, choose the Update button. ARCHIBUS updates the display of the fields on the Building Operations Console. This change remains in effect for your all future sessions of ARCHIBUS, until you change it back.

Showing work descriptions as one or two lines

You can also control whether work descriptions are shown as one or two line. By default, work descriptions are shown on one line, so you might not initially see the complete description.You can mouse over a description to see the entire description in a tool tip. If this is not satisfactory, you can change the default so that the work description is shown as two lines.

To change the work description to two line:

  1. Load the Building Operations Console.
  2. At the top of the console, click the Gear icon .
  3. From the drop-down menu, click Select Display Two Line for Work Request Descriptions.
  4. Click Update.

    The Building Operations shows two line for descriptions. This change remains in effect for all future sessions of ARCHIBUS, unless you change it back.

Next Steps

Once you have adjusted the display of data, you may wish to export it. See Getting Work Request Information to the Person Doing the Work.