Link Activities

The concept of linking activities applies to a variety of situations in which jobs and resources must be linked and sequenced together over time.

These examples illustrate the diversity of linking activities:

• Let’s say a mobile worker is assigned an activity that takes more than a day to complete. How do you make sure that activity continues to be assigned to the mobile worker until it has been completed?

• A group of workers may be assigned to a series of activities related in such a way that the first one must be completed before the second can be started, and so on. What’s the most efficient way to keep that big job moving efficiently?

• And, what about a necessary break in a task that creates a gap in a mobile worker’s schedule? What can you do to make sure your resources remain productive while “waiting for the paint to dry”?

When activities are related serially over time or when routing relationships cause a break in the schedule, you can link activities and restore efficiency.

The first step in linking activities is to create link types that correspond to the four linking relationships represented graphically on the New Link template. The next is to use those link types to link actual activities for Routing.

Linking Activities Automatically

Oracle Fusion Field Service can link two activities based on the information you send to the application using APIs.