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Job designs

Represent a type of job​

Alloy lets you plan and perform any kind of work that needs doing. Maintain your organisation's assets and fix reported defects as they arise. Attach photos to record completed work.

To get started, you need to represent those jobs in Alloy:

  1. Create a design for each job type.

  2. On each job design, add attributes for any extra data points you want to record about that job type. This may include implementing one or more interfaces to inherit their attributes alongside the ones on the design.

  3. Create items of job designs to represent work tasks.

Note

If you want to quantify and cost job requirements:

  • Create work items to represent individual units of work that any job may require, e.g. billable time, materials, equipment, staff.

  • On each job item, add job work items to represent the requirements of that particular job.

Create a job design​

To create a design that represents a type of job:

  1. On the start screen, select Create design. If you already have one open, select + Create design in the top-right corner instead.

  2. Choose the Job design type.

  3. Fill in the details and then select Create design.

You can then edit the design to manage its attributes, links and other properties.

Standard job design details​

All job designs implement the Jobs interface. Therefore, all job items inherit a standard set of properties and attributes. Required attributes are marked with an * asterisk.

Details​

If left blank or unchanged, the job design will inherit the following properties:

  • Applies to - to be useful, a job design must be applicable to one or more designs. This makes it selectable when creating jobs for items of those designs. If an interface is added to this list, the job design will apply to all designs that implement it.

    For example, a Tree Surgery Jobs design could apply to a Trees design.

    To add one to the list, select Add applies to and choose a compatible design/interface. To remove one from the list, select its button.

  • Collections - job items can belong to any collection except for Inventory.

  • Geometry - is optional and all geometry types are allowed.

  • Icon - icon-job

  • Colour - #e9225b

  • Title - JOB-X where X is the value of the Job Number attribute.

Attributes​

The following attributes are inherited from the implemented interfaces:

  • Job Number * - a unique ID number. It's automatically incremented by Alloy, so the field isn't shown when creating/editing a job. By default, it's displayed in the title of job items for easy identification.

    Note

    You can configure any Number attribute to automatically increment in this way.

  • Description - text that typically describes any details of the job not covered by its other attributes.

  • Raised Time - when the job was created.

  • Issued Time - when the job was assigned to a team or team member.

  • Estimated Start/End Time - when the job is expected to be started or ended.

  • Start Time - when work on the job began and its status was changed to In Progress.

  • Completion Time - when work on the job finished and its status was changed to Completed.

  • Cancelled Time - when the job was closed prematurely and its status was changed to Cancelled.

  • Price Multiplier - a percentage adjustment to the calculated job cost, where 1.0 represents 100%.

  • Price Adjustment - a numerical adjustment to the calculated job cost.

The following Link attributes are inherited from the implemented interfaces:

  • Job Work Items - formalised units of work required for the job, which can be quantified and costed. Created from defined work items. To learn more, see

  • Related Jobs - links to any other jobs related to the job.

  • Attachments - links to any uploaded files related to the job.

  • Status * - links to a task status indicating which stage the job is currently at, e.g. Proposed, Completed.

  • Priority - links to a task priority indicating how urgently the job needs to be completed.

  • Team - links to the team assigned to perform the job.

  • Team Member - links to the team member assigned to perform the job.

  • Reports - links to any generated reports involving the job.

  • Jobs Inspections - links to any inspections examining the output of the job.

  • Fixed Defects - links to any defects fixed by the job.

Interfaces​

The following interfaces are inherited directly:

  • Jobs

The following interfaces are inherited indirectly via the above interfaces:

  • Files Attachable

  • Tasks

  • Uplift

  • Items with Reports

  • Jobs With Inspections

  • Jobs Fixing Defects

Diagram
Diagram depicting the structure of a job design