Field Service Management (FSM) & Planning and Scheduling Optimization (PSO)

Hi ,[ Que on IFS FSM ] How do we identify a clickable url from notes or description . Say someone is writing notes as : this is sample note 1this is sample note 2www.google.com I want the 3rd line i.e. www.google.com needs to be hyperlink , the way it’s working here . TIA,Mahesh   

Title says it all, really. I am doing an upgrade readiness assessment for a CE customer, but because CE uses FSM for the DB, I need to know if an inbound ODBC connection is possible. I’m afraid my expertise is around CE, not FSM and I can’t find documentation telling me either way (which makes me think it is not possible. ThanksDamian

Hi,We have created a custom table and when creating a new record all is fine, apart from one small issue.One of the columns in the table is called ‘expiry_dt’. This column has been set with a ‘dateonly’ mask type. When we try to save a value in this column we get an exception of;        <system_error>          <severity>ERROR</severity>          <message>Data member specified by expiry_dt cannot be found.</message>        </system_error>I have created numerous custom tables in the past. Never seen this error before. Searching the community I can see this topic; which references the same error. No comments on that yet, so though I would ask with a different angle to it. Anyone else seen this, or can assist with what the e

We have IFS FSM and it is currently installed on a Server 202R2 server and wish to move it to Server 2019 as 2012R2 goes end of life next year. Could someone please advise how this is done and if there is someone I can speak to in support about this as currently they just say its nit a bug so not supported.

Hi All,Just wanted to know what is Rota data, how it is created, what is the significance of Rota data and where it is used. In nutshell, can anyone give me end to end of Rota data. Please provide the link of document if there is any.Thanks! 

Hi Everyone.I have been following IFS in the field service space for sometime and really impressed how it has managed to market leader in this area for long time..I have about 15 years of experience in CRM space and been passionate about field service managementI’m looking for ways to learn IFS FSM to be an functional consultant but unfortunately to find any reasonable  learning path or any resources. Appreciate anyone from this blog can guide me in right direction. Thanking you in advance!! RegardsSasidhar Anala 

Hello I am new to supporting servers with IFS installed and wanted to know if it is ok to install SQL updates regularly on the database server that hosts the IFS database? 

Hi everyone, Related to FSM 6 UPD10, we realized that the REQUEST syncrule (Initial query) is mentioning two database views (‘task_assigment_view2’ and ‘task1_view’) that seems does not exist. If I query for the related views  I get the next error: Please, see attached document with the XML SYNCRULE. Can someone help me on this?Thanks and regards,

Hi all,another question regarding MX_U table, if FSM application is in IFS managed service, who maintains the MX_U table for deleting the old records?  As this table can be very big and the usage of old history might not be necessary anymore. If it’s customer’s responsibility to maintain it, can you describe steps to check and do it? Thanks again,~Juni

We have built a custom table and want the same on our mobile application. So we built a sync rule and were able to send data successfully from the mobile app to the back office application. However, whenever we are making any changes on the back office application, the same was not reflecting on the mobile app in real time. We were able to send the changed data through Batch Delta and Batch All methods. How can we have real time sync for a custom table?

Hi Experts,As you may know, several regions use the comma as their decimal separator in numerics. This change is accommodated in FSM web client when the regional settings have been modified. However, this is not the case for FSM mobile. Despite changing the regional settings in the mobile devise, the comma is not accepted as the default decimal separator. Is there a known fix for this? Thank you! 

Hi everyone ! We discovered that IFS accounts regulrarly log into our environement.Someone know the purpose of this user accounts : IFS_Mobile  IFS_Monitor IFS_PORTAL IFS_SCREEN_MERGE IFS_INTEGRATION_MONITORThanks you for your help, Best regards

Hi Team,We are greeting error as data member specified by req_status can not be found once we change task status to closed.I checked any BR or client scripts triggering but no BR or client script we wrote for request status.Please find below screenshot for error details. Please suggest how to solve this issue Regards,Ramya

Is there any way to restrict the selection of Task Statuses based upon the Task Type? We need this becuase certain types of tasks should only have certain statuses

Dear Experts, Can anybody help me to achieve this requirement hiding the dropdown value in tab level.Requirement: Hiding the Urgency Status dropdown in part need tab based on task type.For example: If task type = “XYZ” then part need Urgency status should have value “ABC1” , “ABC2”If task type = “MNO” then part need Urgency status should have value “GHI1” , “GHI2”. Any suggestions is appreciated.Note: Used Client script array its working fine for task or header level, need suggestion for part need or tab/line level. Thanks in advance.Kaustav.

what is the use of mx_u table in FSM?mx_u table is writing 1.5 million records daily and it is causing my table space to get filled. what is the use of this table. 

Hi,we have gathered some data from MX_U table.  But I come across to a question how to interpret some data shown. On this captured screen data of Feb. 02, 2022, at around 1 am.mx_u_01, mx_u_02 fields showed something related to mobile app.But user doesn’t have mobile device installed.The question is because: time was wee morning, user didn’t do any work, and user doesn’t have mobile device installed.And a lot of same processes.  From this data shown, what does this data mean? MX_U table no mobile device for the user Look forward to your enlightenment. :-) Cheers,~Juni

Good day Creation and management of rosters will move from FSM to PSO in my situation. Creating exclusions on a resource on the roster in PSO reflects on the PSO schedule board. As the FSM schedule board will still be used to manage some tasks, is there a way to have the exclusions created in PSO display on FSM schedule board? Regards,Hannes

We would like to visualize project milestones on the schedule board. Is there a baseline functionality to manage milestones in FSM?A workaround would be:Use milestones in ‘place view’ of the schedule board. In place view projects can be shown as they, in our case, relate to places. We created a dummy 'milestone-technician' (and Team) and used different task types for the specific differentiation of milestones themselves. Therefore the workaround isCreate Technician and Team MLSTN Create different milestone task types As said, this is just a workaround and we would like to know if there is something more project related available.Thanks in advance and regards,Thomas

Dear All, I am facing an issue in schedule board. I have a team having 15 members. And out of 15members 10 are resource. In schedule board it should come 10 resource but I can see more than 10. Those extra members coming from this 15 members list only. Can anyone tell me what might be the reason?Is there any wrong configuration happened. Thanks & Regards,Rajat

Hello community, In our understanding it is possible to expand Global Search to include more tables, by configuring the roles. However, is it possible to expand Global Search to include more fields such as user_defs and custom fields?Thanks!!Kind Regards

Hi Experts,Somewhat of a trivial question. When writing an expression for business rule based on a field update, how do we refer to the old value of the field?ex: if the task.user_def1 is updated and I want a validation as followingtask.user_def1(new) - task.user_def1(old) > some dynamic value (from a joined view)then trigger error messageHow do we write this? 

Is it possible to change the Duration of task from minute to daysi found the app param “ENABLE_TASK_DURATION_IN_DAYS” I tried using this. but it still remains same as minutes

Hi,I understood that in PSO the resources and activities can have one or more regions (to be used in different optimization parameters, like creating hard boundaries with within region multiplier, or the out of region multiplier, etc.). But it is not clear to me exactly which fields in FSM (when the tasks are create in FSM first) are mapped with these two objects in PSO (Resource & Activity), regarding the Regions. Also I will like to understand if the activity multi-regions in PSO is supported by IFS FSM, or only one region per task can be set and sync to the PSO activity. Thanks, Regards,Fernando

Dear allIn a customer’s Mobile environment we have found, that datetime fields are no exposed visible on the screen, although they are available on the database. I thought the time zone was picked up by the client itself, but don’t know how to solve this. There has to be a solution obviously, as that error does not appear on different customer’s environment: 03/02/2022 06:42:45|ERROR|ConvertDateTimeFromUIToDB|2|EXCEPTION: Argument_TimeZoneNotFound. For more information, visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=623485 ...    at SharedLibrary!<BaseAddress>+0x61e844   at IFS.FSMW.Architecture.Utilities.MetrixDateTimeHelper.ConvertDateToOppositeTimezone(DateTime dateValue, Boolean isDBToUI) App Params, Client Scripts, Sync Rules have been aligned and match between both environments. Mobile app version is identical too.