Skills Table

The Skills Table is used to define system skills. Skills are used against work orders to perform a required task. Each skill has an associated rate of pay that is used to calculated the job cost of an work order. These skills are then available to work orders that are raised against the Schedule.

The Skills table has several different tabs for recording information about a skill. The tabs are: Browse, Details, and Staff.

Browse Tab

The Browse tab is a list of the skills that have been added to the table.

Details Tab

The Details tab shows the detailed information that you can record about each staff member. The fields available on the Details tab are:

Staff Tab

The Staff tab shows the staff members that have the skill. The staff members are those that have been set up in the Staff & Non-suppliers lookup table.

The Staff tab displays two boxes. The box on the left hand side of the window displays all the staff members that have been assigned this skill. The box on the right hand side displays all the staff members that are available to have this skill assigned to them.

To assign a staff/non-supplier to a skill:

  1. Open the Skills Table.

  2. Find the skill that you want to assign to staff/non-suppliers. Change to the Staff tab.

  3. Highlight the staff/non-supplier you want to assign in the list of available staff/non-suppliers, or use the Control key as you click on the list of available staff/non-suppliers to highlight more than one staff/non-supplier.

  4. Click on the single left arrow or double-click on the highlighted staff/non-supplier.

    The staff/non-suppliers you highlighted will move from the list of available staff/non-suppliers to the list of assigned staff/non-suppliers.

To assign ALL staff/non-suppliers to a skill:

  1. Open the Skills Table.

  2. Find the skill that you want to assign to staff/non-suppliers. Change to the Staff tab.

  3. Click on the double left arrow.

    All staff/non-suppliers will move to the list of assigned staff/non-suppliers.

To remove a staff/non-supplier from a skill:

  1. Open the Skills Table.

  2. Find the skill from which you wish to remove staff/non-suppliers. Change to the Staff tab.

  3. Highlight the staff/non-supplier you want to remove from the list of assigned staff/non-suppliers, or use the Control key as you click on the list of assigned staff/non-suppliers to highlight more than one staff/non-supplier.

  4. Click on the single right arrow or double-click on the highlighted staff/non-supplier.

    The staff/non-suppliers you highlighted will move to the list of available staff/non-suppliers.

To remove ALL staff/non-suppliers from a skill:

  1. Open the Skills Table.

  2. Find the skill from which you wish to remove staff/non-suppliers. Change to the Staff tab.

  3. Click on the double right arrow.

    All staff/non-suppliers will move to the list of available staff/non-suppliers.

Related Topics:

Condition Assessments Requirements Tab

Contract Skills Tab

MWA Actual Tab

MWA Estimated Labour Tab

Resource Balancing Window

Template Estimated Labour Tab

Related Tables:

Contract Skill Rates Table

Predefined Tasks Table

Rate Types Table

Skill Groups Table

Staff and Non-Suppliers Table

Trades Table