As a Foundations Manager, you have these major tasks:

• Develop initial facility data (you might choose to outsource this task).
• Maintain this facility data once developed.
• Manage basic aspects of your facility, such as departmental space assignments and employee occupancy
• Manage the requests from self-service users, such as requests for maintenance, reservations, and services.

First, become acquainted with Archibus Foundations and its tools for managing space and service requests by using the sample database to work through the following lessons. For sample users and passwords. see Archibus Foundations Sample Users and Passwords.

• Lesson 1: Sign in, navigate, and find data
• Lesson 2: Manage space and occupancy
• Lesson 3: Manage requests for meeting space and working space
• Lesson 4: Manage move requests
• Lesson 5: Manage work requests

With an understanding of the Archibus system from the above lessons, you can now enter your facility data into the Archibus system. Once this data is entered, you can use the concepts covered in the above lessons to manage your space inventory.

• Lesson 6: Develop your own space and occupancy data
• Lesson 7: Enter your equipment
• Lesson 8: Enter maintenance supporting data

As a facility manager with an understanding of operations at your site, you can define business processes and set up kiosks and QR codes.

• Lesson 9: Configure how Archibus handles service requests
• Lesson 10: Set up kiosks and print QR codes

If you want to quickly create a few records in order to experiment with Workplace and the Service Console, see:

• Quick Start: Make requests and manage them