Use the Workload Manager feature to manage your users' work by seeing all items and tickets assigned to a folder or user and changing these assignments.
Items are listed by folder and user. The list of users is the default.
Icon (Left column) | Category (Gray row) |
Folders ( ) | Folder: Folders containing tickets or items Not In Folder: Tickets or items not in folders |
Users ( ) | Unassigned: Users without tickets or items assigned to them Contract Locator: Locators with tickets or items assigned to them |
Columns list items in relation to due date.
Column | Description |
Beyond + | Shows three additional columns for items due within two, three, and four days |
Past Due | Items past due |
Due Within 2 Hours | Items due within 2 hours |
Due Within 2-4 Hours | Items due within 2-4 hours |
Due Within 4-8 Hours | Items due within 4-8 hours |
Today | Items due today |
Tomorrow | Items due tomorrow |
Total Open | Total number of open items |
User/Folder | Shows folders or users. If showing users, you can schedule time off:
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Search
Search by folder name or user's first or last name.
Config
Setting | Description |
Default Capacity of Items Assigned to a Folder | The maximum number of items that can be assigned to a folder. This number is the limit that indicates workload capacity has been exceeded. It does not limit actions or auto processing rules used to assign items to a folder |
Default Capacity of Items Assigned to a User | The maximum number of items that can be assigned to a user. This number is the limit that indicates workload capacity has been exceeded. It does not limit actions or auto processing rules used to assign items to a user |
Past Due Configuration | Excludes tickets with ongoing responses from being listed as past due |
Note for Assignment and Put in Folder | Requires users to add notes when assigning tickets or putting them in folders |
Refine
Refine By | Refine By |
Contract Locator (user / personnel only) | Shows all items assigned to the locator you choose |
Folder | Shows all items assigned to the folder you choose |
Personnel (user / personnel only) | Shows all items assigned to the user you choose |
View
- On the top menu bar, click Workload > Workload Manager
- On the Workload page, in a column, click the number of tickets or items. Result: The Item List window appears
On the Item List window, in the upper right corner, choose the view:
Display Description List ( ) Lists items or tickets by item ID. Click column headings to sort Map ( ) Lists items or tickets by location on map
Actions
From the list of items, you can take two actions on multiple items at once. On the Item Details page, you can take all actions:
Page/window | Action |
List of items/tickets window |
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Item Details page | In the Item ID column, click the ID number. Result: The Item Details page appears with all actions. See Item Details, below |
Actions available on Item Details window (from Item ID link).
Action | Description |
Add Note | In the Add Note window:
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Add Response (Complete or Ongoing) | Complete: Add a response to a ticket and change the status to Closed. See Item Response. Ongoing: Add a response to a ticket but the ticket remains open (on-going). See Item Response. |
Assign / Unassign |
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Change Status (items only) |
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Clear Dispatch Review (outside Actions list in upper right corner) | Use these actions to process tickets with a status of Pending Your Research and at least one Auto Process Recommendation in a simpler, faster way. You must configure registration codes to use them. See Registration Codes > Select Codes for Clear, Dispatch, and Review Tickets
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Email (tickets only) |
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External Links (tickets only) | Opens any links to 3rd party sites in a new browser tab. To add links, see External Links |
Link to | On the Link Related Items window, find the work item you want to link to:
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Modify (items only) |
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Print / Print to PDF (items only) |
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Put in Folder / Remove from Folder | On the Put Item in Folder (or Remove Item from Folder) window:
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Related Items | If your item form is the parent of child forms, the child forms appear under the Related Items heading in this dropdown list. Clicking a child form creates a child item and links it to this form. For more information, see Links |
Respond (outside Actions list in upper right corner) | This is the same feature as Add Response, above. Opens the Item Response window with a default setting of complete (you can change this to an ongoing response). See Item Response. |
Schedule (items only) | On the Schedule Item window:
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Set Action for Future Ticket Updates | Overrides autoprocessing rules by automatically making future versions of an item (with the same ticket ID number) either:
These future updates do not change who the ticket is assigned to or its folder (They only affect future versions/updates of the item). |
Start Work / End Work (outside Actions list in upper right corner) |
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Standard Field | Description |
Locator | The locator who did the work. There are two kinds of locators:
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Locate Time | The time when the locate occurred (field automatically shows the current time) |
Notes | Free text field for any notes. If your company uses Standard Comments, this field can be automatically filled in based on the Standard Comment you chose (you can still type a note before or after the standard comment) |
Response | Responses indicate what happened with the ticket. The response you choose determines the Standard Comment list. Your company defines responses in Responses If needed, send a positive response to close the ticket and tell the excavator to start work. See Send Positive Response to Excavator, below |
Unit of Work | The number of units of work used to do the locate. Units are defined by your company |
Optional Field | Description |
Additional Message to Excavator (Optional) | When making a positive response to an excavator, use this field to type a message in addition to the Notes and Standard Comment. To make this field appear: |
Did you talk to Excavator? (Optional) | If you talked to the excavator, use the Message Addressed dropdown list to indicate what you talked about (this is a standard list and cannot be customized):
Turn on the Talk to Excavator/Message Addressed feature in Excavator Compliance |
Send Positive Response to Excavator (Optional) | A positive response is sent to the excavator. To learn how your company defines which responses are positive, see Set Up Excavator Positive Response If sending a positive response to an excavator, you can also send a message to the excavator beyond the standard response. Type any such message in the Addl Message to Excavator box (optional) |
Standard Comment (Optional) | This list of standard comments comes from the Response you chose. The standard comment automatically fills in the Notes field. By default this option is off. Configure standard comments in Responses |
Displays the compete text of the ticket
- On the Item Details page, at the bottom, click Full Ticket Text. Result: The compete text of the ticket appears
The History view lists all the actions performed on the item.
- On the Item Details page, at the bottom, click View History. Result: The History page appears listing the actions
- Optional. On the History page, click Attachment Added ( ) to open the Attachments page to view or download the attachment.
The Related Items page lists the items linked to the item you are viewing.
- On the Item Details page, at the bottom, click Related Items. The Related Items page appears listing the items
- Click an item to view it
The Attachment page lists the image files attached to the item.
- On the Item Details page, at the bottom, click Attachments. The Attachment page appears listing the image files
Optional: Click the file to view or download the image file
If your item contains location data, the map is displayed to the right.
The map is interactive:
- Use your mouse to click, pan, and scroll to zoom within the map
In the upper-left corner of the map, the map tools are in a vertical toolbar:
Map Tool | Description |
Map Layer Information ( ) | For information about a specific point:
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Measure Distances ( ) |
To turn off, click Ruler ( ) again |
Show My Current Location ( ) (Optional) | Click Bullseye ( ) to center the map on your current location as determined by your web browser |
Zoom In/Zoom Out (+ - ) | Click Zoom In (+) and Zoom Out (-) to increase or decrease the details shown on the map |
Zoom to a Specific Area ( ) |
To turn off, click Zoom ( ) again |
Dialog ( ) | For information about a specific point:
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In the upper-right corner of the map, put the mouse pointer on the Layer Picker ( ) to see the map layers (Street, Satellite, Hybrid, irth GIS) you can display on the map. If your company uses custom Map Layers, these are also in the Layer Picker (see Map Layers under Administration)
Layer Information | Description |
Activities | A layer that shows worker activity that has location information:
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Dig Site | Area on the map based on geocoded address with buffer applied from ticket. Dig sites can be based on To/From street address, for example, 15 Main St to 63 Main St |
Dig Site Bounding Box | Box on map drawn by user to indicate the four corners of the dig site. Dig site bounding boxes can contain multiple OCC dig areas |
Dig Site Point | The pin marking the dig site (when map is zoomed out) |
Facility Location | A facility location is the geographical location of the asset or facility you are trying to protect. Facility locations are defined when you add map definitions. If you indicate that facilities are not in use, they appear differently on the map. Facility locations can be processed by auto processing rules (Auto Response) |
ESRI Hybrid | A base layer that shows streets, photographic landscape, and political borders (state, province, nation) |
ESRI (Sat) | A base layer that shows photographic landscape |
ESRI (Street) | A base layer that shows only roads, streets, highways |
irth GIS | A base layer that shows streets and political borders (state, province, nation) |
Location | The location of the item. From the Location field in the form (if any) |
Near Street | The nearest intersecting street (from ticket). Not part of dig site |
OCC Dig Area | The One Call Center (OCC) dig area contains the latitude and longitude coordinates from the One Call Center ticket (can also contain grid data). This dig area is a shaded box |
Responsibility Areas | A responsibility area is the area in which a person, group of people, or an office is responsible for the work to be done in it. Responsibility areas are defined when you add Map Definitions (If you indicate that responsibility areas are not in use, they appear differently on the map) |
Users | A layer that shows the GPS location of the most recent Start/End action and the worker who performed it |
- Click Search ( )
- In the search box, type an address (the search is formatted as street, city, state) or latitude/longitude coordinates (type latitude, a space, then longitude)
- Press Enter or click a suggested result to go to it on the map
Use Export to export map data, including any work actions.
- Click Export ( ). Result: The option to choose the file format of the export appears
Click the file format of the export. Result: A Zip file downloads to your computer:
File Format Description Geojson The export file unzips to a Geojson file.
GeoJSON is an open standard geospatial data interchange format that is based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). GeoJSON encodes a variety of geographic data structures and their nonspatial attributes. It uses a geographic coordinate reference system, World Geodetic System 1984, and units of decimal degrees.
Shapefile The export file unzips to 4 shape files: .DBF, .PRJ, .SHP, .SHX
External links are optional, custom links to external, third-party web sites. They are added by your company. See External Links.
- Click External Link ( )
- In a new browser tab or window, the link to the external web site opens
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