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Schedule Assistant - No Resources found when filtering by Characteristics

Posted on by Microsoft Employee

Good morning!

Our organization has recently begun setup of Field Service in our Dev instance.  Our end goal is to schedule bookings for teams of multiple resources based on various pieces of criteria that a resource must meet.  For our setup and testing of this functionality we’re starting with just one required characteristic per work order/resource.  To add the characteristic to our resource we took the following steps:  Field Service > Administration > Resources > Select Resource > Add New Resource Characteristic to the subgrid.

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On the Work Order, we have set an Incident Type that carries over required Characteristics.  In this example we have an Incident Type of Knee Injury which requires a certification of Physical Therapy.

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 When opening up the Schedule Assistant for this Work Order we do see our Characteristic appear within the filters on the left, however, whenever we attempt to filter by it we receive no results.

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After removing our required characteristic as a filter ALL resources display including those that have been tagged with the skill in question.  We have also played with the Ignore filters, and everything is functioning as expected there. 

Would you be able to provide any assistance on why our Resources are not appearing when we attempt to filter on the characteristics?  Is there any other setup needed in order to get this filtering on requirements working as expected?

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  • Wayne Walton Profile Picture
    Wayne Walton 13,726 on at
    RE: Schedule Assistant - No Resources found when filtering by Characteristics

    Derp, realized I had this window open for way too long.

  • Wayne Walton Profile Picture
    Wayne Walton 13,726 on at
    RE: Schedule Assistant - No Resources found when filtering by Characteristics

    Have you set a work schedule for Tom yet?

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Schedule Assistant - No Resources found when filtering by Characteristics

    Thanks for the reply, Prashant.  

    It was indeed a configuration issue.  It turns out that the culprit actually had to do with the rating itself.  For the Characteristic we were filtering on, no rating had been entered for that particular resource.  Because of that when selecting "Any Rating" nothing was returned in the results.  After assigning a rating we then saw the correct results.

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    PS Profile Picture
    PS 23,577 on at
    RE: Schedule Assistant - No Resources found when filtering by Characteristics

    Hi Joe,

    I have gone through the same myself, Its actually not the system's issue actually; its a configuration issue.

    Each incident type has multiple service tasks related to it. And each service tasks has some duration, this duration collectively, comes up as a filter when you click on schedule assistant.

    What you need to do is either reduce your service tasks duration or when you click on schedule assistant, keep following things in mind:

    Check 'Ignore Duration' or

    Reduce the duration

    and make sure you select characteristic with 'any rating'

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