Design Requirements for the Space Manager

Space Attribute Form

Collects information about a space, including the unit of measure used to dimension it and the level to which it belongs. Information from this form appears on the Space Properties window in Unifier. The attribute form data appears on the General tab when the user opens the space from the Space Manager node.

Log for the manager(standard or advanced)

Shows a list of the level and spaces that have been created for the manager.

Standard logs display fields from the manager’s attribute form (level and space) that you want to monitor. For example, you might want a log for the Space Manager to include the names of all levels on your property and the square footage.

Advanced logs support data pickers. An advanced log should be designed for any space type that contains records that will be displayed on a data picker. (For more information on data pickers, see About Data Pickers.)

For instructions on designing a log, see Designing a Log for a Manager.

Integration interface

In order to incorporate AutoCAD® with the Space Manager, you will need to create an integration interface to import and export drawings between AutoCAD® and Unifier.

2. Launch the manager

See About Launching a Manager

3. Create a Level Attribute Form

See the instructions beginning with Adding Blocks to the Attribute Form

Mandatory fields for the level attribute form are:

Level name (uuu_sp_level_name)

Drawing file name (uuu_sp_level_drawing

Status (status)

This field is mandatory if you want to track the last date that a level record was modified. You can include this data element on logs to allow the user to sort records by the last date of modification:

Record Last Update Date (uuu_record_last_update_date)

4. Create a Space Attribute Form

See the instructions beginning with Adding Blocks to the Attribute Form

Mandatory fields for the space attribute form are:

Area (uuu_sp_area)

Unit of measure (uuu_sp_uom)

Level picker (uuu_sp_level_picker)

Space picker (uuu_phy_space_picker)

This field is mandatory if a polyline deleted in uCAD will be flagged as Deleted in the space record form in the Space Manager. This field is always read-only, and cannot be populated as the result of a formula, auto-population, or reverse auto-population:

Polyline Deleted (uuu_polyline_deleted)

This field is mandatory if you want to track the last date that a space record was modified. You can include this data element on logs to allow the user to sort records by the last date of modification:

Record Last Update Date (uuu_record_last_update_date)

If users should be able to reserve this space, these fields are mandatory:

Allow space to be reserved (uuu_rsv_reservable)

Allow over-booking (uuu_rsv_overbook)

5. Create a log for the manager

See Designing a Log for a Manager

6. Create an integration interface

For information on creating an integration interface, see Creating a uCAD Interface for the Space Manager.

Mandatory fields for the uCAD integration interface are:

Level interface:

Level or space name (uuu_sp_level_name)

Area (uuu_sp_area)

Drawing name (uuu_sp_level_drawing)

Space interface:

Data element that was created for the space’s name

Area (uuu_sp_area)

Unit of measure (uuu_sp_uom)

Level picker (uuu_sp_level_picker)