In Unifier, the Space Manager is where users can perform the tasks of facilities management. The Space Manager integrates the AutoCAD® application to provide drawing and modeling capabilities for your architectural, layout, and design needs.
Using the Space Manager, users can gather data about the levels in their facility (such as floors and parking lots) and the spaces that exist on each level (cubicles, offices, conference rooms, etc.). Each level is supported by an AutoCAD drawing. Users can enter individual spaces into Unifier, or directly onto an AutoCAD drawing and classify them into categories (such as common areas, or usable space) to make managing them more efficient. Similar to the Asset Manager, you can create categories (called types) of spaces in uDesigner, and Unifier users can add records of individual spaces to these types and manage them on an electronic sheet.
The Space Manager is a means of organizing all the square footage in your facility to make monitoring, maintaining, and reconfiguring it more efficient. You can integrate the Space Manager with other managers or business processes to give users a broader view of your company’s physical capital and resources. For example, you can integrate the Space Manager with the Asset Manager to include the computers that reside in each cubicle on a level; or integrate the Resource Manager to include the employees who occupy each space on a level.
In uDesigner, you will be creating one attribute form for a “level” type in your facility and multiple attribute forms for “spaces” types. (Think of a level as the "platform" on which spaces reside.) With these attribute forms, Unifier users can create a hierarchy of levels and spaces within levels to store the facilities data you choose to collect. If designed so on the attribute form, the Unifier user can reserve the space for use using a Reservation type business process.
In Unifier, the Sheets node in the Space Manager stores the manager sheet on which all the levels in your facility are shown. Unifier automatically creates a level sheet for every level type that is created. On these sheets, Unifier users can import and export drawing files to and from AutoCAD, and also import and export column data. From the level sheet, users can also automatically update individual level records with data added to the sheet, either manually or via a formula created for a column.
The Stack Plans node is where users can create stack plans to show the actual usage of the levels in the company’s building(s). Users can choose the information (data elements or specific spaces) they want to see on the stack plan and update the plan periodically to keep abreast of changes in the levels’ space usage. For example, users might want to know the square footage used by each department on each floor (level); or how many square feet of a floor are vacant vs. leased.
The Levels node lists all the levels that exist in your facility. Each level is supported by an AutoCAD drawing. This node is where users can create new levels or update existing ones, download drawing files, add spaces to the level, attach a drawing to the level, and print the drawing.
The Spaces node shows a list of all the space types, and under the space type sub‐node, all the spaces that exist in your facility. This is where users can create new spaces or update existing ones, import data from CSV files, export templates to CSV, and select spaces to view on the level drawing.