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Loading Tasks (Views) from the Navigator

For each application, the Navigator lists the tasks required to achieve a specific business result, such as developing a lease abstract report. With security in effect, your Navigator will display only tasks and processes relevant to your role within the organization.

To work through an application on the Navigator, you select its tasks. The tasks instruct the program to present in the workspace portion of the application window items such as:

forms for entering information
tables for entering or reviewing information in the database
formatted reports that present database information, with or without embedded drawings
charts
floor plan drawings

The displayed items are known as a view into the Archibus data repository.

Web Central

For example, select the Space / Space Inventory / Room Inventory / Define Room Categories and Types task from the Navigator in Web Central,

and Archibus loads the view file that prsents the tables for entering and reviewing room categories and room types. The view can contain other components such as filters, hierarchy trees, workflow rules, actions, and so on.

As you select each task, the system closes the current information and displays a new set of information corresponding to the selected task's view.

To run a task (load a view):

Drill down through the Navigator's hierarchy to the Task level.
Click on a task in the Navigator.

The system loads the task's associated view, which displays the appropriate table, report, or other data in the workspace.

Smart Client

The Navigator in Smart Client presents tasks that:

load grid views
load Web views
launch CAD programs

Two Types of Views: Grid Views and Web Views

Most of the tasks on the Smart Client Navigator present grid views, which present data in a form convenient for viewing many records at a time and for bulk editing.

The Navigator also includes tasks that load Web views, such as "View Unaccounted Suite Area." This view presents two tables from the database and also calculates data, and can also be accessed in Web Central. The Smart Client Navigator includes Web views that you might find handy when working in Smart Client. These views load in an embedded browser window.

screen shot of the view shown after a Process Navigator task is selected

CAD Tasks

Within Smart Client, the Navigator may include tasks for CAD Specialists, such as "Draw Suites" in the above image.

CAD tasks present the Drawing List so that you can choose a drawing to work with. Once you select a drawing from the list, Archibus launches the Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD, opens the selected drawing, and activates the layers appropriate for the current task.

If these drawing tools are already open and you select a CAD tasks from the Navigator, these drawing tool applications become the active application and display the appropriate layers for the task at hand.

Viewing Previous and Next Tasks

Within Smart Client, you can view previous and next tasks.

Select Navigator / Previous on the Ribbon to view the task you loaded previously to loading the current task.
Select Navigator / Next on the Ribbon to view the task that was loaded prior to clicking Previous.