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Customer to resource view in field service

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Hello Everyone,

I am new to Dynamics 365, and I am currently researching to see weather it is possible to configure the resource schedule board to do the following. 

In the current Field service app I am working on, we display contacts (which we label carers) as a resource in the resource scheduler, each carer will have booking (work order) to fulfill . Each work order displayed against the carer, is linked also to a client (Account entity) that is the person the carer has to attend.

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With this set up we are able to see assignments against each carer. This is brilliant but we need to also be able to create a similar view, but from the client prospective.

This view needs to show clients (Account) as resources, and the different booking (work orders)  that a client is expecting, and each work order should display the carer name (Contact) servicing the client.

A assignment (work order) will be always related to a client (Account) but not always to a carer, for example there are scenario where we can create an assignment but we might not have a carer who could fulfill it straight away, so it is left unallocated .

If we were able to see appointment from the client prospective in the resource scheduler view, the users of the system would be able to see allocated and unallocated appointment's in a visual view, and that is what I am trying to achieve.

Is this feasible? if yes could anyone point me to the right direction?

 

 Best Regards 

  • Al Iggs Profile Picture
    Al Iggs on at
    RE: Customer to resource view in field service

    The schedule board can only show resources on the Y axis and IMO it makes no sense to maintain an account/contact resource for every client. I would look at Power BI or the Power Apps Component Framework (https://pcf.gallery/ ) for visualization.

    From my understanding of your use case, an appointment would be a Resource Requirement, an assigned appointment creates a Booking with a carer, and all unallocated appointments would be Resource Requirements without a booking, showing up in the bottom panel.

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