Mobile App integration lets Construction Base recognize which Business Central users are working in a mobile role, and offers them a small set of mobile-optimized entry points for common site tasks - time recording, repair time, machinery overview and machinery logistics.
Mobile Roles
A Business Central role (profile) can be flagged as a mobile role. Construction Base keeps the list of mobile role IDs and uses it, together with the current user's personalization profile, to decide whether that user is currently working in a mobile context.
Mobile Construction Site
The Mobile construction site card part gives mobile users quick access to the most common site functions:
Tile
Opens
Time-Rec.
The Mobile Time Recording selection (see below).
Demand.
The demand request overview.
Machinery
The list of the company's own machinery.
Daily Report
The list of daily construction site reports.
Open Site Pick Approvals
The list of site pick lists (machinery transfers/returns) waiting for the user's approval; the tile shows the number of open approvals.
Rejected Site Pick Approvals
The list of site picks that were rejected; the tile shows the number of rejected approvals.
Mobile Time Recording Selection
The Mobile Time Recording - Selection page is the entry point behind the Time-Rec. tile and offers two actions:
Open Job Time Recording
Opens the Job Time Recording list, Construction Base's own site time recording.
Open Repair Order
Opens the current user's own time sheets of document type "Time Sheet" (repair time recording), matched via the user's Employee record.
Mobile Functions per Job
From a job, Construction Base offers the following mobile functions for machinery on that job:
Function
Description
Machinery List
Shows all machinery currently logged on the job, including machinery mounted on or built into other machinery.
Machinery Return
Lets you select machinery on the job and creates a return shipment (site pick list) sending it back.
Machinery Transfer
Lets you select machinery on the job and creates a transfer (site pick list) moving it to a different job/job task that you choose.
Damage Report
Lets you select machinery on the job and creates one damage report (incident) per selected machine.
For Machinery Return and Machinery Transfer, the resulting site pick list is automatically sent through the approval process once you confirm the selection.
Note
The quantity offered for selection is automatically reduced by machinery that is already covered by an existing pending transfer or return for the same job.
Related Areas
Mobile users typically rely on Job Time Recording for entering hours on site, and may depend on Data Mirroring to keep data available on mobile devices synchronized with Business Central.
Related information
Original Construction Base Features, Job Time Recording Job Time Recording is Construction Base's own site/job time recording system. For every job and every day you record who worked how long, which equipment and materials were used, and which type of work the hours belong to - and eventually release the recorded hours into the weekly time sheets...
Original Construction Base Features, Data Mirroring Data Mirroring is a generic mechanism that keeps two or more Business Central tables automatically synchronized, record for record. Once a mirror is set up between tables, any insert, change, deletion or rename of a record in one of the mirrored tables is automatically copied to the matching record in every other active table of the same mirror...
Mobile App Integration
