Machinery on Job

2026/09/10 • 6 min. to read

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Machinery in Job
Actions
Machinery Position Types
Machinery Search
Machinery Line Suggestions
Accessory Machinery Selection
Machinery Location Responsibles
Related information

Machinery in Job is a Construction Base feature that lets you see, select and transfer the machinery currently assigned to a job, search for suitable machinery, get suggestions of machinery already logged on a job, and manage accessory machineries and location responsibles. The underlying Machinery and Machinery Location data itself belongs to MEGABAU 365 and is extended separately by Construction Base, as documented in Machinery Management Extensions.

Machinery in Job

The Machinery in Job list and card (used mainly from the mobile app) show the machinery lines belonging to a job or job task, and let you select which lines to transfer, return or report as damaged.

Below you will find the description of the fields.
Field	Description
Inventory No.	Barcode field used to look up a line by scanning the machinery's Inventory No. If a match is found on the job, the line is selected (unless the page was opened from the Machinery List function); if not, a message is shown.
Selection	Marks the line for the current mobile function (transfer, return, ...). Selecting a line that belongs to another machinery (an accessory) also marks the other lines that belong to the same machinery.
Quantity to transfer	The quantity of this line to transfer. Cannot exceed the line's Quantity. Setting a value different from zero automatically sets Selection, and vice versa.
Machinery No.	Number of the machinery on this line. Drilling down opens the machinery's card in MEGABAU 365 (Own Machinery Card).
Belongs to Machinery	Internal entry number of the machinery this line belongs to, if the line is an accessory of another machinery line.
Picture	Picture of the machinery.
Built-in device	Specifies whether this is a built-in device.
Description / Description 2	Description of the machinery.
Quantity	Total quantity of the machinery on this line.
Job Task Description	Description of the job task the line is posted against.
Send Transfer / Send damage report	Sends the selected lines as a machinery transfer/return, or as a damage report, and closes the page. Which one is shown depends on the mobile function the page was opened for.

Note

The line's Function ID reflects the mobile function that the list was opened for: Machinery List (browse only), Machinery Return, Machinery Transfer, or Damage Report. For a damage report, lines are not required to belong to an unassigned machinery entry.

Actions

Mark all
Selects (or unselects) all lines at once. Only available when the page is used for transfer/return/damage reporting, not for plain browsing.
Show marked/all
Toggles the list between showing only the selected lines and showing all lines.

Machinery Position Types

Wherever Construction Base shows where a piece of machinery is currently located, the position is classified using the following types:


Position Type	Description
Int. Maintenance	The machinery is at internal maintenance.
Ext. Maintenance	The machinery is at external maintenance.
Resource	The machinery is assigned to a resource (employee).
Warehouse	The machinery is at a warehouse/yard.
Machinery	The machinery is attached to another machinery (accessory).
Job	The machinery is on a job.
Customer	The machinery is with a customer.

Machinery Search

CB Machinery Search lets you find machinery by scanning or entering an Inventory No. For every matching machinery, its current position (using the position types above) and position number are shown next to the standard No. and Description. Machinery Search Mobile is a criteria card used from the mobile app: enter one or more of the up to five Machinery Type levels and the Quantities Allowed setting, then run the Search Machinery action to open the matching machinery in the Machinery List (mobile).

Machinery Line Suggestions

The Mach. Line Suggestion page proposes machinery that is already logged as open on a job (optionally narrowed to an order and/or job task) so that it can be posted back, transferred, shut down or resumed without having to look it up again.


Field	Description
Selected	Marks the suggested line for posting. Setting this field sets Qty. to Post to the Total Qty.; clearing it resets Qty. to Post to zero.
Qty. to Post	The quantity to post for this line. A non-zero value automatically sets Selected.
Total Qty.	The total open quantity of this machinery on the job.
Machinery No. / Description	Identifies the suggested machinery.
Position Type / Position No.	Current logistics position of the machinery, see Machinery Position Types above.
Order No. / Job Task No.	Order and job task the machinery is logged against.

Mark
Marks/unmarks the currently selected lines (multi-select) the same way as the Selected field.
Mark all
Marks all suggested lines and sets Qty. to Post to the Total Qty. on every line.
Unmark all
Clears Selected and Qty. to Post on all lines.

Accessory Machinery Selection

Some machinery types require, or allow, accessory machineries to be taken along. The Select Accessory Machineries page lists the accessories defined for a main machinery (Machinery Accessories in MEGABAU 365) and lets you choose which ones to take over.


Field	Description
Übernehmen	Marks the accessory line to be taken over. Corresponds to the record being marked.
Accessory Mach. No. / Description / Description 2	Identifies the accessory machinery.
Qty. Mach. Accessory	Quantity of the accessory belonging to the main machinery.
Accessory Type	Type of the accessory relationship (for example, a mandatory/forced accessory as defined in the Machinery Mgt. Setup).
Conditions / Remarks	Free-text conditions or remarks for the accessory.

Mark
Marks/unmarks the currently selected lines (multi-select).
Marked Only
Shows only the marked lines.
Clear Marks
Removes all marks and resets the Marked Only filter.

Note

Accessories whose Accessory Type matches the mandatory take-out force type configured in the Machinery Mgt. Setup (MEGABAU 365) are taken over automatically (including their own accessories) instead of being offered for manual selection.

Machinery Location Responsibles

For each machinery location (a MEGABAU 365 "Mach. Location"), you can define one or more employees who are responsible for it on the Machinery Location Responsibles page.