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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 600 objects available in Workplace ,Management. Examples of objects are Request, Contract, Work OrderWorkOrder, Reservation, Property, Area, Asset, and Invoice. most 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 a unique identifier of the object. For Buildingsthis 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 more clear we could use the Property or Reservation Object object as an example. In the screenshot above you can see that Property ( the object ) Property can have multiple instances. In other words, different buildings are instances of the object Property.
When we look at Reservation ( the object ) Reservation we see that we could can have multiple Reservations. While we could have more than one reservations. Each meeting room Reservation, each meeting room Reservation would be a new , workplace or parking reservation is an instance of the reservation object with a unique reference 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 |
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Property | PRP-00504 | name, ownerContactId, constructionDate |
Asset | AST-235689 | type, brand, supplierContactId |
Person | PRS-12345 | firstName, reference, gender |
Reservation | RES-22002658 | subject., startDate, endDate |
Linking objects to each other
Objects in Workplace Management can be linked to other objects via specific fields on the object. For more info on this check out information on linking objects, see: Hyperlinks and linking objects via Id-fields.
The For example, the Asset object for example can be linked to many different objects. Each asset could belong to a specific Contact (owner) and AreaThe supplier of the asset and the area where the asset is located can be linked to the asset.
A beamer, can , for example, be reserved in a specific meeting room within a building.
A coffee machine might belong to a specific supplier that checks the machine every few years. This could be registered using specific contractsmachines supplier is registered and can be contacted, if the coffee machine is broken.
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