1. Work Orders Implementation Guide
  2. Understanding Work Order Mass Update Templates

Understanding Work Order Mass Update Templates

Work orders have many fields that you might want to update on a regular basis. Instead of entering the update values each time that you process work order mass updates, you can use the Work Order Mass Update Template program (P48710) to set up templates that include default values for the work order fields that you want to update. The program enables you to specify default values, hide a grouping of fields, and lock specific fields so that changes cannot be made to the fields.

You can use templates as a management tool to:

  • Provide default values for specific fields.

  • Prevent changes to specific fields.

  • Require specific values to be used to update fields.

After you set up templates, you:

  1. Specify the template name in a processing option in the Work Order Mass Update program (P48714).

  2. Specify the version of the P48714 program that you want to use in the Work Order Mass Update (P48714) Version processing option in the Search for Work Orders program (P48022).