Location types

This screen holds the rungs a location tree is built from — building, floor, room, bay — shared across every site. Open it from Administration → Location types. The Sites link at the top goes to the sites register.

A site describes itself in the words that fit it — buildings, floors and production lines at one site, floors and rooms at the depot next door — and both draw from this one list. Locations themselves are not managed here: a location does not exist apart from its site, so it is added on the site’s own screen. Who can change this. Add configuration entries and Edit configuration entries.

The list

The stat strip counts types and how many are used nowhere. The toolbar has a Search types box, Views (saved arrangements of the list), Filter, Columns (choose which columns show) and Export, which downloads the rows you are looking at.

Column	What it shows
Type	The name
Depth	A hint about how far down the tree the rung usually sits — a building is 1, a floor 2, a room 3. It sorts the list and helps a picker offer a sensible next type; it enforces nothing
Used at	The sites that actually have a location of this type, read from the locations themselves
Locations	How many locations carry this type, across every site

Click a column heading to sort by it. Click a type to edit it.

The location type form

New type opens the form.

Field	What it means	Notes
Name	How a place is described — “Building”, “Floor”, “Room”, “Bay”	Required
Depth	Roughly how deep in the hierarchy this kind of place sits	Optional. Used to sort and suggest, never to enforce
Can be booked	Places of this kind appear in the booking picker	Off by default, because most of the tree is structure. Turn it on for a meeting room or a test bay. See bookings
Active	Whether the type is offered on new locations	Retiring a type leaves existing locations untouched

The sites register

Where a site’s own locations are built.

Setting up

Configuration

The list

The location type form

The sites register