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,. Examples of objects are Request, Contract, Work Order, 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, the reference will be automatically generated and is a unique identifier of the object. For Buildingsthis 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 that Property (the object) can have multiple instances. In other words, different buildings are instances of the object Property.
When we look at Reservation (the object) we see that we could have multiple Reservations. While we could have more than one meeting room Reservation, each meeting room Reservation would be a new instance of the reservation object with a unique reference.
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 on the object. For more info on this check out Hyperlinks and linking objects via Id-fields.
The Asset object for example can be linked to many different objects. Each asset could belong to a specific Contact (owner) and Area.
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 contracts.
