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 600 objects available in Workplace Management. Examples of objects are Request, Contract, 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 a unique identifier of the object. For Buildings this could look like: PRP-000001, PRP-000002, PRP-000003.
Instances explained
To try and make the concept of instances more clear we could use the Property or Reservation object as an example. In the screenshot above you can see the object Property can have multiple instances. In other words, different buildings are instances of the object Property.
When we look at the object Reservation we see that we can have multiple reservations. Each meeting room, 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, startDate, endDate |
Linking objects to each other
Objects in Workplace Management can be linked to other objects via specific fields. For more information on linking objects, see: Hyperlinks and linking objects via Id-fields.
For example, the Asset object can be linked to many different objects. The supplier of the asset and the area where the asset is located can be linked to the asset.
A beamer, can be reserved in a specific meeting room within a building.
A coffee machines supplier is registered and can be contacted, if the coffee machine is broken.
