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Enable Service Call Creation for Inactive Locations

For Signature 18.04b06 or higher, new service calls cannot be created for inactive service locations. If you want your technicians to be able to create new service calls for inactive locations, you will need to make offline HTML modifications.

To enable service call creation for only inactive customers, see Enable Service Call Creation for Inactive Customers or to enable for both inactive customers and inactive locations, see Enable Service Call Creation for Both Inactive Customers and Locations. (The directions for enabling service calls for both inactive customers and inactive locations combine the separate instructions.)

Update the New Service Call Form

To enable service call creation for inactive locations from the New Service Call Form: 

  1. In MobileTech Administration, select Tools > Launch Resco Cloud Dashboard

  2. Enter the Email and Password and select Log in

  3. In the left navigation, select Woodford.

  4. Open the MobileTech Woodford project.

  5. In the left navigation under Components, select Offline HTML.

  6. Double-click entity.

  7. Double-click servicecall.

  8. Select servicecall-form_new.html

  9. From the menu bar, select Edit.

  10. In the Edit window, scroll down to // ----- LOCATION ----- .

  11. Locate the line if (afterVersion2018R6) {

  12. Add the comment out slashes // to the front of the following line:
    entity.addFilter().where(SCHEMA.location.Properties.isinactive, 'eq', 'false')

  13. Select Save in the Edit window.

  14. Select Save.

  15. Publish the project

  16. Sync the devices.

Update the BOB Dashboard and BOB Fault List

You will only need to do these steps if you are using the Building Optimization Broker integration and you want to allow for service calls and service requests to be created for inactive locations.

Update the BOB Dashboard

To enable service call and service request creation for inactive locations from the BOB Dashboard: 

  1. In MobileTech Administration, select Tools > Launch Resco Cloud Dashboard

  2. Enter the Email and Password and select Log in

  3. In the left navigation, select Woodford.

  4. Open the MobileTech Woodford project.

  5. In the left navigation under Components, select Offline HTML.

  6. Double-click entity.

  7. Double-click bobdata.

  8. Select bob-list_dashboard.html

  9. From the menu bar, select Edit.

  10. In the Edit window, scroll down to the following line:  var dynamicActionItems = [];

  11. You will need to remove the following:

    1. In the following line, you will need to remove: selected.equipment.islocationinactive ||
      if ((afterVersion2018R6 && (selected.equipment.islocationinactive || selected.equipment.iscustomerinactive))||!canCreateCall) { 
      // Remove 1. Create Service Call

    2. In the same section, you will also need to remove: selected.equipment.islocationinactive ||
      else if ((afterVersion2018R6 && (selected.equipment.islocationinactive || selected.equipment.iscustomerinactive)) {
      // Remove 1. Create Service Call & 3. Create Service Request
      dynamicActionItems.push(actionItems[0], actionItems[2], actionItems[4]);
      }

  12. Select Save in the Edit window.

  13. Select Save.

  14. Continue with the steps below.

Update the BOB Entity Form List

To enable service call and service request creation for inactive locations from the BOB Entity Form List: 

  1. In MobileTech Administration, select Tools > Launch Resco Cloud Dashboard

  2. Enter the Email and Password and select Log in

  3. In the left navigation, select Woodford.

  4. Open the MobileTech Woodford project.

  5. In the left navigation under Components, select Offline HTML.

  6. Double-click entity.

  7. Double-click bobdata.

  8. Select bobdata-list_entityform.html

  9. From the menu bar, select Edit.

  10. In the Edit window, scroll down to the following line: == LIST ITEM FUNCTIONS ===

  11. In the following line, you will need to remove: location.properties.isinactive ||
    if ((afterVersion2018R6 && (location.properties.isinactive || customer.properties.isinactive)) ||

  12. Select Save in the Edit window.

  13. Select Save.

  14. Publish the project

  15. Sync the devices.

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