When you want to begin work on a work order, you can commence the work order. This will set the status of the work order to In Progress.
When you commence a work order, Pinnacle will check the materials against the work order. If there are stock items that have not been fully requisitioned, Pinnacle will notify you that the work order has not been fully requisitioned. You can ignore this notification and commence the work order anyway, or you can choose to wait until the stock item has been fully requisitioned.
Work orders that are automatically commenced, such as planned work orders when the auto-commence flag is set, will not display this notification, and will commence the work order whether stock items have been fully requisitioned or not.
Open the Work Order Backlog Browse Window
Highlight the work order or work orders you wish to commence.
Choose Commence from the Backlog menu
OR
Choose Commence from the popup menu
OR
Click the Commence toolbar button.
Pinnacle will check that the work orders can be commenced. If there is any reason that a work order cannot be commenced, an error message will be displayed to explain the reasons.
If the work orders can be commenced, and at least one of the defaults "E-mail commenced MWAs" and "Print commenced MWAs" is checked on the Workflow tab of the MWA Defaults window, Pinnacle will display a dialog box with e-mail and print options for the work order.
Select the options for printing or e-mailing the work orders.
If you have selected multiple work orders, you can choose to have the options applied to all the work orders. Check the Apply to All check box to do so. If you don't choose this option, the e-mail/print options window will be displayed for every MWA that you have selected.
Click the OK button if you want to e-mail or print the MWA. Click the Bypass button if you want to skip e-mailing/printing.
Pinnacle will change the status of the work orders to In Progress.
Open the Work Order Overdue Browse Window
Highlight the work order or work orders you wish to commence.
Choose Commence from the Overdue menu
OR
Choose Commence from the popup menu
OR
Click the Commence toolbar button.
Pinnacle will check that the work orders can be commenced. If there is any reason that a work order cannot be commenced, an error message will be displayed to explain the reasons.
If the work orders can be commenced, and at least one of the defaults "E-mail commenced MWAs" and "Print commenced MWAs" is checked on the Workflow tab of the MWA Defaults window, Pinnacle will display a dialog box with e-mail and print options for the work order.
Select the options for printing or e-mailing the work orders.
If you have selected multiple work orders, you can choose to have the options applied to all the work orders. Check the Apply to All check box to do so. If you don't choose this option, the e-mail/print options window will be displayed for every MWA that you have selected.
Click the OK button if you want to e-mail or print the MWA. Click the Bypass button if you want to skip e-mailing/printing.
Pinnacle will change the status of the work orders to In Progress.
Open the work order that you wish to commence.
Choose Commence from the Backlog menu
OR
Choose Commence from the popup menu
OR
Click the Commence toolbar button.
Pinnacle will check that the work order can be commenced. If there is any reason that a work order cannot be commenced, an error message will be displayed to explain the reasons.
If the work order can be commenced, and at least one of the defaults "E-mail commenced MWAs" and "Print commenced MWAs" is checked on the Workflow tab of the MWA Defaults window, Pinnacle will display a dialog box with e-mail and print options for the work order.
Select the options for printing or e-mailing the work orders.
Click the OK button if you want to e-mail or print the MWA. Click the Bypass button if you want to skip e-mailing/printing.
Pinnacle will change the status of the work order to In Progress.