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Learning Objectives

After reading this article you will be able to:

  • Understand the object model within Workplace.

Workplace Object model

Workplace Management Object model

A basic understanding of the object model and how objects (for instance a reservation and an area) can be related, can be helpful when doing application management in Workplace Management. This is explained in this article.

  • There are currently more than

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  • 600 objects available in Workplace

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  • Management. Examples of objects are Request, Contract,

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  • WorkOrder, Reservation, Property, Area, Asset, and Invoice. Most of the other objects are technical (background) objects.

  • Each unique appearance of an object is called an instance. Whenever we create a new instance of an object in Workplace Management, the reference will be automatically generated and is

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  • a unique identifier of the object. For

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  • Buildings this could look like: PRP-000001, PRP-000002, PRP-000003.

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Instances explained

To try and make the concept of instances

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more clear we could use the Property or Reservation

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object as an example. In the screenshot above you can see

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the object

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Property can have multiple instances. In other words, different buildings are instances of the object Property.

When we look at

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the object

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Reservation we see that we

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can have multiple

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reservations. Each meeting room

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, workplace or parking reservation is an instance of the object Reservation.

Object fields

Relevant properties/information of objects are stored in fields. The term objectFields is used to indicate a field belonging to an object. Below, some examples are provided of (object)fields:

Object

Example of reference

Examples of objectField

Property

PRP-00504

name, ownerContactId, constructionDate

Asset

AST-235689

type, brand, supplierContactId

Person

PRS-12345

firstName, reference, gender

Reservation

RES-22002658

subject

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, startDate, endDate

Linking objects to each other

Objects in Workplace Management can be linked to other objects

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via specific fields. For more

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information on linking objects, see: Hyperlinks and linking objects via Id-fields.

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For example, the Asset object

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can be linked to many different objects.

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The supplier of the asset and the area where the asset is located can be linked to the asset.

  • A beamer, can

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  • be reserved in a specific meeting room within a

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  • building.

  • A coffee

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Summary

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  • Examples of objects in Workplace are: Property, Request, Contract, and Contact

  • Instances have unique identifiers (references)

  • Info on objects is stored in fields

  • Objects can be linked together through Id fields

Exercise

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

Search

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  • machines supplier is registered and can be contacted, if the coffee machine is broken.

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