What's New in ARCHIBUS V21.2: Mobile Framework

ARCHIBUS V21.2 includes substantial enhancements to the Mobile Framework and the existing suite of apps. It also includes additional apps to round out the offerings.

Mobile App	New or Enhanced	Type of App	Primarily Used By
Workplace Services Portal	New	Workplace Services	Staff members needing to locate rooms and colleagues Staff members needing to request facilities services or check the status of a request for rooms, hotelled space, maintenance, moves or other services added to the facilities' services catalog Admins needing to request information on departmental allocation and occupancy
Incidents Reporting	New	Workplace Services	Safety Officer needing to report EH&S incidents and details
Space Book	Enhanced	Facilities	Facilities staff in the field reviewing space allocation, occupancy Facilities staff in the field updating space allocation Admins reviewing departmental allocation and occupancy
Space & Occupancy Survey	New	Facilities	Facilities staff in the field updating time-based space allocation information (workspace transactions) Facilities staff in the field updating employee locations and multiple office and lab locations per employee Facilities staff in the field updating room information
Maintenance	Enhanced	Facilities	Craftspersons and supervisors requesting and performing maintenance in the field
Asset & Equipment Survey	Enhanced	Facilities	Facilities staff performing asset management and disposition assessments in the field
Assessment	New	Facilities	Facilities staff and contractors assessing condition, commissioning, or sustainability criteria in the field
Mobile Executive Reports	New	Management	Executives needing metrics, alerts, and summary reports in the field

Enhancements

The ARCHIBUS Mobile Framework enhancements include:

Increased memory capacity by storing floor plans and graphics in the device file system
Ability to load very large data sets without timeouts
Area and cost units per the Web Central base unit settings
Application icons configurable in the database

The Space Book mobile app enhancements include:

Photos and site-survey comments as part of the space survey
Search capability for sites, buildings, addresses, floors, rooms, room names, including highlight and zoom-to-room
Auto-save on survey information

The Asset & Equipment Survey mobile app enhancements include:

Ability to set fields to survey on a per-survey basis
Photos and comments as part of the survey
New Create Survey Wizard

The Maintenance mobile app enhancements include:

Expanded search
Sorting and grouping of work orders by status, escalation, location, problem type
Color coding of work orders by priority
Finder to locate work on site and floor plans
Auto-save updates feature

Workplace Services Portal App

This new app is the one-stop shop for enterprise staff needing access to facilities services and information.

Reservations connect with existing Web Central Reservations workflows and are compatible with the new Reservations Exchange Integration features.

Staff can request other types of services and flow them into the Web Central applications that process them. ARCHIBUS process owners can add to the catalog of services offered on the devices.

Incidents Reporting

Safety officers can use this app to record any workplace incidents. It helps to record valuable insight on the circumstances of the accident and the actual events right at the location. The app can record as many witness statements as needed, along with their contact data. Photos help you tell the complete story of the incident as well as itemize damages and on-premises findings.

Space & Occupancy Survey App

This new app provides for surveys compatible with the space transactions methodology. It allows rooms to be split by departments or time or both. It collects occupancy information including multiple locations per occupant.

Assessment App

The new app provides Condition Assessment, Environmental Sustainability Assessment, and Commissioning Assessment and is compatible with these Web Central applications.

Mobile Executive Reports App

You can establish home pages designed for mobile devices to present management information and summary reports. In this configuration, you use a bookmark on your mobile device to access the standard ARCHIBUS server (e.g. yourarchibusserver:8080\archibus) and sign in.

You can create summary reports using the Web Central View Definition Wizard and put them on the mobile home page by adding them as a task on one of the mobile process panels. Your summary reports should be appropriate for mobile: they should not be too wide for the typical tablet screen, and should use just standard reports or 1D or 2D summary reports. Other ARCHIBUS view types are not supported.

You can also drill down from metrics and alerts to reports, as long as these reports follow the guidelines above.

To review the default Mobile Manager navigation pages, sign in as user "AIM" or "AFMM".

More information on the Mobile Manager App is here:

http://www.archibus.com/ai/abizfiles/v21.2_help/archibus_help/archibus.htm#../Subsystems/mobile/Content/mobile/page_nav.htm

Additional Materials

To install and use the mobile apps on your device, please see this topic:

http://www.archibus.com/ai/abizfiles/v21.2_help/archibus_help/archibus.htm#../Subsystems/mobile/Content/mobile_install/staff_procedures.htm

You can enable mobile services and set the database to which mobile devices should connect in WEB_INF\config\context\applications\mobileservices.properties. Restart your application server after enabling the services.

You can download the ARCHIBUS Mobile Client from the App Store or from Google Play.

You can also review the apps in your Apple or Android device's Web browser using a URL of the form:

http://localhost:8080/archibus/schema/ab-products/common/mobile/src/AppLauncher/index.html

You can also review the apps in the Google Chrome browser on the desktop using the mobile skin:

http://localhost:8080/archibus/schema/ab-products/common/mobile/views/tablet.htm

To sign into the apps with the sample database, use the user "TRAM".

For mobile platform updates, please see:

http://www.archibus.com/ai/abizfiles/v21.2_help/system_management_help/afm-sysman.htm#mobile/ARCHIBUS_mobile_apps_overview.htm

Note: ARCHIBUS URL. Depending on your device and DNS settings on your network, you may find it more reliable to refer to your ARCHIBUS server by its IP address (e.g. 10.1.23.348:8080\archibus) than its computer name (e.g. yourarchibusserver:8080\archibus).