Understanding Work Order Status History

You can review a history of the statuses that you have assigned to a work order, such as new order, parts list attached, in progress, and so on. This is especially useful when you need to quickly review the status of a work order and determine how long a work order has been at various statuses in the work order life cycle. When you review the status history of a work order, you can also review:

• Remarks that were entered when you changed the work order status.

• The beginning dates, ending dates, and times of each status change.

• The hours that are associated with each occurrence of a particular status.

Processing options for the Status History program (P1307) enable you to revise existing remarks for any status change, enter a new remark if you did not do so when you changed the status, or protect the Remarks field from future revisions.

When you access the Work With Status History form, the system displays a history of each status that is assigned to the work order, from the creation of the work order to the present.