How To Complete A Simple Field Activity That Requires A Read

The following steps describe how to complete a simple field activity that requires a meter read.

You navigate through the pages as follows:

• Navigate to Field Activity Upload Staging.
• Enter the ID of the field activity being completed.
• Use Work Date/Time to define when the field activity was completed.
• Navigate to the Steps tab and enter the Badge Number and Read Date/Time. For required steps, the system populates Read Date/Time with the values entered for Work Date/Time but you can change these vales if necessary. After entering this information, the Add Meter Read button becomes enabled. Click it to open the Register Reading grid.
• Specify the Read Type and Register Reading for each register on the meter. Then click the Complete button. When the Complete button is clicked, the following events take place:
  • The field activity upload staging record is saved.
  • A meter read is added.
  • The system attempts to complete the field activity using the information on the field activity upload staging record and on the meter read.
  • If the system is not successful in completing the activity due to incomplete information on the field activity upload staging record, the upload staging step's status will be changed to Error and a corresponding error message will be displayed. To complete the activity, fix the cause of the problem and change the step's status back to Pending and then click the Complete button again.
  • If the system is successful in completing the activity, the field activity upload staging record's upload status is changed to Complete , the step's upload status is changed to Complete, the field activity's status is changed to Complete, and, if all field activity's linked to the field order are Complete, the field order's status is changed to Complete.