Service (Touch Apps, MWO, MRO)

In our MRO Business, we used to send parts for repair services externally. This is done using order code 06 PO. However, once the repair is done and while we receive the parts, we used to perform ‘receiving inspection’ where some of the parts fails at quality check/inspection management. As a results, they are supposed to send back for re-work again. However, IFS prevent us to send these parts back using ‘Re-work’.As a business policy/ procedure, those re-work required parts cannot be taken inside the warehouse with serviceability tag.So, how to do this scenario in IFS App10?  

We are currently trying to delete all Document Revisions and the associated Document File which have the Document Revision Status “Obsolete”.    Is there any way to delete these Revisions and Files automatically?    Thanks for your help. 

Hello all, we are currently using IFS MWO Service 10 App Upd 9 (version 10.20.1419.0) and when we tried to use Revise Document it always creates a Failed Transaction and got confirmed from the Community there is a known bug related to Document Revision option.  Since the option is available Mobile Users still tend to use that functionality and trigger Failed Transactions.1. Therefore, would you kindly advise if there is any possibility to hide it from the MWO App and restrict using that option by any Mobile User?Is the bug related Document Revision option is fixed in Cloud version or any IFS APP 10 UPD.? Many thanks for all your kind thought and advice. 🙂  

in mWO Service, with a Workflow Configuration Type Work Task, we are able to report time for tools and complete the assignment for the Tool.  I am not seeing similar functionality if the Workflow Configuration type Configured Work Task.  Do we know if this is a bug or just missing functionality coming in a later release?

Work Task /Assignment line 1 status is cancelled But the Work Task Clocking data is not Clocked out. When trying to clock out in Assignment Tab  Any way to close this Work Task or any alternate solution to correct this error. 

Southwest Airlines is seeking advice from other users on Cancel Task functionality on Blocks and Requirements with scheduling rules.  Current functionality when a task is cancelled tracking reverts to initial schedule.  This drives the task 90% of the time overdue and locks the aircraft until manually updated.  In the case of Block Chain tasks it reverts back to 1st occurrence of the chain.  The response from IFS has been this is how Maintenix was designed.  We do our best to communicate to frontline users to not cancel any tasks other then Job Cards, but occurrences of cancelling Requirements and Blocks still occur. Any insight on this would be appreciated. Michele

Scenario: A work task was assigned to a technician from Cloud to MWO. The work task was cancelled on Cloud, but the MWO technician already began travel or started work (created a clocking). The Cloud syncs with MWO and a work task is allowed to have a start time clocking and is in the cancelled state. An additional assignment is created from the existing work task and is completed. Question:How can the work task be in a finished state when the original cancelled work task cannot be modified with a stop time? In its current form, the work task can neither be reported nor finished because their is a clocking without a stop.  ** this issue is preventing our client from billing their customer and needs a quick resolution ** Thank you

Dear Community We are using IFS Cloud Service Management to handle our Field Service requests. We are relying on Work Order / Work Task / … entities to model all the information.We have multiple contacts we want to document for a single Work Order. On the Work Order, it would seem that only 1 set of contact information (name / number / email) can be documented.How would I achieve documenting multiple sets of contact information (name / number / email) for a single Work Order? Thank you for your valuable feedback

Hello IFS Users,We have been trying to implement IFS Service Module that suits our business processes while staying within the scope of standard solution IFS provides. We have been working on this project for almost 2 years and not happy with the solution we are getting. If there are companies out there who are using IFS Service module successfully, we can really use some help if you are willing to share how you use it and how we can effectively use it. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. 

Hi Community.Our MWO users are frequently getting the kind of failed transactions shown below, we are curious to know what could be causing this kind of failed transactions and what can we do to stop it? This is very inconvenient for the MWO users and frustrating.  Any input would be appreciated. ERRINV: Entity instance not found. (JT_TASK_CLOCKING - CLOCKING_SEQ=149977.0) ThanksMesh 

Dear IFS User Community,An issue has been identified when using IFS CRM Companion App, on an Apple iPhone, with the iPhone in ‘dark mode’ setting.With an Apple iPhone in dark mode setting, the CRM Companion notes field within the “Lead” screen becomes black. As such, when entering (black) text into the (black) notes field, the text becomes impossible to view.Have any users encountered a similar issue and have found a clever IFS fix / work-around (other than the iPhone setting being returned to standard (light) setting) ?Thank you in advance for insight / experience / suggestions.

Hi Team,they should exist a background job for removing the automatic generated remote warehouses with the address type “Geolocation”Do you know the name of this background job to remove those warehouses?BR Marina

Hi ⁠I am searching for the right settings to get MWO Maintenance App fully in French language on my iOS device.My mobile device is set up for French.The preferred language for the mobile user I am connecting with is set up to French.The App menus and various screens and fields are in French ok.But not the notifications for new assignments. They remain in English. Am I missing a setting somewhere or should it be reported as a bug?

I have a customer whose technician is completing work orders and the assignment status remains as ‘OnRoute’ even though he completed all the steps and finished the work task. The technician utilizes the travel option to travel to / travel from the job location. What are some possible causes for this status change issue? Is this a bug and/or human error with selections that the MWO app is allowing to move forward in the work task process with? And is there a functionality as an admin to manually change the assignment status? 

Hi, we are using IFS cloud in conjunction with PSO and MWO.  We have a set up where we have a single work task that is planned via PSO and then sent to MWO. Everything here is fine. However, sometimes a second person is required on site to assist. We accomplish this by adding a new resource line on the work task. This in turn sends a new allocation over to PSO and schedules the work accordingly.  The issue I have is when we commit the work Allocation in PSO and send to Mobile each user has to run through the same work flows and survey etc on MWO. We want the lead worker to complete all surveys etc in MWO and the second user just to be able to arrive on site and then set the status as completed when they have finished and not have to complete the surveys etc.  Is this possible?  

Hi there, we are currently using the MWO Service 10 App for around 200 engineers.Is anybody known with MDM possibilities together with the IFS MWO App? Intune maybe? Like to hear your experiences and advise,  Many thanksKind regards,

Hi All, I am getting an error when trying to transfer a work task to MWO. the user and person are all connected and I can log on to the mobile app. however I keep getting this error. any help would be appreciated   

Hello Everyone! First off thanks in advance for your input!  I have a scenario where it is convenient for a technician to use multiple devices.  For example taking pictures with a phone and then completing a work task on a laptop with larger screen real estate.  Has anyone come across this use case?  I recommend one device per field tech but sometimes it is more convenient to use more than one. Thanks! Matt

Hi,I'm trying to find out what causes long mWO initilazation time.I've found a thread on community regarding slow initializationhttps://community.ifs.com/service-touch-apps-mwo-mro-43/long-delay-in-mwo-app-10-initialization-process-13158Now, our customer reports slow initialization and also synchronization. Initialization takes up to 1.5 hour (measured in local network), synchronization also takes a lot of time and usually is unsuccesfull (done on mobile data far from work).I did a test yesterday evening using vpn connection and in my case initialization took 20 minutes. Looking in synchronized objects tab on mobile user, the most time consuming entity was InventoryPartInStock and InventoryPartBut summing time for entites it should take approx 3-4 minutes to finish.On my iPad after downloading entities there was a longer approx 10 minutes or more period with a Waiting for Server message  After that there was another information about Processing messages for a minute or two. And finally

When Allocating a resource on a work task or looking in Resource monitoring Gantt we wish to see where the resource is on other planned/active jobs that same day in terms of the geographical locations i.e. the Location address of the object or Customer address.Preferably the object location address would be visable on the “pop-up” when you hover over already planned or active work in the Allocate Resource schedule but no such luck. Or can we modify the information in below pop-up?Resource Allocation on Work task Or if we can see it in the resource monitoring gantt, for example if a customer calls, it would be good to see where the resource already is located.Any tips on how to easily see addresses in the schedule? I know that you can RMB twice from Recource monitoring gantt and see the customer address, but that beats the purpose of an easy overview of where the resources are at the moment. FSM is not an option for us at the moment and we use IFSAPP10.17. 

Trying to connect to our IFS Cloud Test site with MWO Service on an Android Tablet and receiving the error “An Error has occurred”. “Something went wrong while tryingt o communicate with the server. Please check the connection and Server URL.”  The version downloaded of IFS MWO Service is 23.7.917.0. The error comes up almost immediately. The connection works on the iOS Apps and Windows app but none of the Android tablets or phones.  This is both inside and outside of our network/firewall.  The other non-Android devices works inside and outside of the network/firewall. We are unsure what to check/troubleshoot to find the issue. Thanks

I would like to have the customer data to be updated as often as possible in the MWO app so it is available to me when creating new work on the app. The reason is that in my scenario field technicians will also have the ability to create new customer records (either in Aurena or in the CRM Companion app) and then create new work for them.How can I make it so the customer information is pushed to MWO as often as possible?@kathlk do you maybe have an idea on this?

For one my customers we have been asked to do a modification for activating work task time reporting on future dates, what can be the consequence of this?Meanwhile what is the reason that we allow project time reporting for future dates but it is not possible on the work task?

Hello,We are looking to pass the work order # to another app / site to associate additional data with it. We are trying to build a link off of the work order in MWO https://formsproapp.azurewebsites.net/launch?WorkOrder=${WO_NO} Reading the documentation, it seems like this should be available. However, when the link is executed the parameters are blank:https://formsproapp.azurewebsites.net/launch?WorkOrder= Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide!

Dear all, We are currently using the IFS MWO SERVICE 10 App version 10.13.1360.0 and need to update to the latest version (10.20.1419.0), through App Store. (iOS Devices). Would you kindly advise if this is performed, the devices need to be initialized and as a precautionary measure do we need to advice all the devices to keep on idle mode or disconnected? Many thanks for your kind thoughts and advice.