Difficulty: starter / novice

Workplace Object model

• There are currently more than 500 objects available in Workplace, some examples of objects are Request, Contract, WorkOrder, Reservation, Property, Area, Asset, and Invoice.

• Each unique appearance of an object is called an instance. Whenever we create a new instance of an object in Workplace, the reference will be automatically generated and is an unique identifier of the object. For Properties this could look like: PRP-000001, PRP-000002, PRP-000003.

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title Instances further explained.
To try and make instances a bit more clear we could use the Property or Reservation Object as an example. In the figure we can see that Property (the object) can have multiple instances, different buildings are instances of the object Property. When we look at Reservation (the object) we see that we could have multiple Reservations. And while we could have more than one meeting room Reservation, each meeting room Reservation would be a new instance with a unique reference.

• Relevant properties/ information of objects are stored in fields. We will often use the term objectFields to indicate a field belonging to an object. Below, some examples are provided of (object)fields:

  • Person: name, gender;

  • Properties: reference, name, type (“office building”);

  • Assets: type (“beamer”), brand, supplier.

• Objects in Workplace can be linked to other objects by using Id-fields. For more info on this check out Linking via id-fields + magnifying glass.

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title Linking objects further explained
The Asset object for example can be linked to many different objects. Each asset could belong to a specific Property and Area. A beamer, can for example, be reserved in a specific meeting room within a property. A coffee machine might belong to a specific supplier that checks the machine every few years. This could be registered using specific contracts.

Summary

Exercise

•  #1 Make a new instance of the Property Object
•  #2 Link a Property owner to this instance

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