Selecting work order for modification

In this page, you can select a work order to modify its details. Tell me more.

Select the “Edit Work Order” link under the “Hangar Work Order” business component.

The “Select Work Order” page appears.

Note: If this page is invoked from the “Process Discrepancies” page or from the “Record Discrepancies” page of the “Hangar Work Reporting” business component, the system ensures the following:

The first two characters of the ATA number associated to the discrepancies selected in the previous page must be the same as that of the ATA number associated to the work order entered here.
The aircraft registration number applicable to the discrepancies selected in the previous page must be the same as the aircraft registration number applicable to the work order entered here.

The system displays the following field:

Date Format

The format in which the date field is displayed. This format is displayed from the "User Preferences" business component based on the login user ID. In case the format is not defined, the system displays the date format from the "Enterprise Modeling" business component by default.

Enter the following field in the “Direct Entry” group box, if you know the hangar work order number for which the details must be modified:

Work Order #

The number identifying the hangar work order for which the details must be modified (Alphanumeric, 40).

Select the “Edit Work Order” link provided alongside to modify the details of the work order.

Note: If the “Modification of WO” option is set to “Not Allowed after Scheduling” in the “Set Options” activity, you can modify only those work orders that are in “Fresh” status.

To search for work orders

Enter the following fields in the “Search Criteria” group box, to search for a work order. Data entry in the following fields is optional:

Adv. Search ID

Use the drop-down list box to select the search ID. The system lists all the values as identified for the login user in the login organization unit. The system retrieves the work orders based on the filter criteria specified for the search ID. Leave this field blank to search irrespective of this field. The system leaves the field blank by default.

Select the “Edit” link alongside, if you wish to modify the advanced search criteria.

Enter additional filter criteria in the following fields:

ATA #	The number identifying the ATA chapter applicable to the work order (Alphanumeric, 16). You can enter the ATA chapter in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the work orders associated to the ATA number similar to the number entered here. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the work orders irrespective of the ATA chapter.
Work Order #	The number of the work order that you need to modify (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the work order number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the work orders that are similar to the number entered here. Leave this field blank, to retrieve all the work orders.
Job Type	Use the drop-down list box to select the job type of the work order. The system provides the options, “Aircraft”, “On-wing” and “Component Removal”. The system retrieves all the work orders whose job type is similar to the type specified here. The system sets the field blank by default. Leave this field blank, to retrieve all the work orders irrespective of the job type.
Job Status	Use the drop-down list box to select the job status of the work order. The system provides the options based on the settings in the “Set Options” activity of the current business component.
	If “Modification of Wo” option is set to “Allowed”, “Requires Re-Authorization after Scheduling” or “Only new tasks can be added”, the system provides “Fresh”, “Scheduled” and “In-Progress”, as options.
	If “Modification of Wo” option is set to “Not Allowed after Scheduling”, the system provides “Fresh” as the option.
	The system retrieves all the work orders whose job status is similar to the value specified here. The system sets the field blank by default. Leave this field, to retrieve all the work orders irrespective of the job status.
User Status	Use the drop-down list box to select the user-defined status of the work order. The system lists all the quick codes of type “User Status” defined in the “Create Quick Codes” activity of the current business component. The system retrieves all the work orders whose user status is similar to the value specified here. The system sets the field blank by default. Leave this field blank, to retrieve all the work orders irrespective of the user-defined status.
Visit Package #	The number identifying the visit package (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the work orders that are associated with the visit packages whose number is similar to the value specified here. Leave this field blank, to search for all the work orders irrespective of the visit packages.
Work Center #	Use the drop-down list box to select the work center, to which the work order you need to retrieve, is attached. The system lists all the 'active' work centers defined in the “Create Work Center” activity of the “Work Center” business component in the login organization unit. The system retrieves all the work orders attached to the work center specified here. The system sets the field blank by default. Leave this field blank, to retrieve all the work orders irrespective of the work center.
Aircraft Reg #	The registration number of the aircraft (Alphanumeric, 30). You can enter the aircraft registration number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. The system retrieves all the work orders associated with the aircraft whose number is similar to the value specified here. Leave this field blank, to search for all work orders irrespective of the aircraft.
Authorization Status	Use the drop-down list box to select the authorization status of the work order. The system provides the options “Authorized”, “Pending Authorization” and “Not Required”. The system retrieves all the work orders that are in the authorization status specified here. Leave this field blank, to search for all work orders irrespective of the authorization status.
Sch. Start Date: From	The starting date, in the range of scheduled start dates, on which the work order is planned to be started (Date Format). The system lists all the work orders that have scheduled start dates on or after the date entered in this field.
Sch. Start Date: To	The ending date, in the range of scheduled start dates, on which the work order is planned to be started (Date Format). The system lists all the work orders that have scheduled start dates on or before the date entered in this field.
Customer #	The number identifying the customer who owns the aircraft (Alphanumeric, 18). You can enter the number in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the visit packages irrespective of the customer number entered here. The system retrieves only those visit packages raised on the aircraft whose owning agency number matches with the customer number entered here.
Customer Name	The name of the customer owning the aircraft (Alphanumeric, 40). You can enter the name in full or specify it partially using the “*” character. Leave this field blank to retrieve all the visit packages irrespective of the customer name entered here. The system retrieves only those visit packages raised on the aircraft whose owning agency name matches with the customer name entered here.

Note: Ensure that the “Sch. Start Date: From” field is not later than the “Sch. Start Date: To” field.

If the above fields are left blank, the system lists all the work orders, which are in the “Fresh”, “Scheduled” or “Inprogress” status, based on the options set in the “Modification of WO” field in the “Set Options” activity.

Click the “Search” pushbutton to search for the work orders.

Note: The system retrieves only those work orders for visit packages, which are in “Released” or “Partially Released” status.

The system displays the following fields in the “Search Results” multiline:

Work Order #	The work order retrieved by the system.
Work Order Description	The textual description of the work order.
Job Status	The status of the work order, which could be “Fresh”, “Scheduled” or “Inprogress”, based on the options set in the “Modification of WO” field of the “Set Options” activity.
Transient Status	The transient status of the work order.
Authorization Status	The authorization status of the work order, which could be “Authorized”, “Pending Authorization” or “Not Required”.
User Status	The user-defined status of the work order.

Enter the following field, if you wish to cancel a work order:

Comments

Any additional remarks pertaining to the cancellation of the work order (Alphanumeric, 255).

Entry in this field is mandatory, if the work order is being cancelled.

The system displays the following fields:

Aircraft Reg #	The aircraft on which the work order task is executed.
Visit Package #	The visit package for which the work order is raised.
Work Center #	The work center that is responsible for the execution of the work order.
ATA #	The number identifying the ATA chapter applicable to the work order.
Job Type	The type of the job, which could be “Aircraft”, “On-Wing” or “Component Removal”.
Task Count	The number of tasks associated to the work order.
Customer #	The number identifying the customer, who owns the aircraft.
Customer Name	The name of the customer owning the aircraft.

Note: The "Customer #" and "Customer Name" fields are applicable only when the aircraft is not self-owned and the customer details are recorded in the system.

Select the hyperlinked work order number in the multiline, to modify its details.

Note: You can modify only those work orders that are in “Fresh” status, if the “Modification of WO” option is set to “Not Allowed after Scheduling” in the “Set Options” activity.

Click the “Cancel Work Order(s)” pushbutton to cancel the selected work orders.

Note: You cannot cancel a work order under the following circumstances:

If the "Mandatory (Y/N)" flag is set as "Yes" for any of the work units belonging to the work order.
If materials have been issued against the material request raised for the work order.
If the work order is of type “Planned” and has reference to customer order.

The system performs the following after clicking the “Cancel” pushbutton:

The system changes the status of the work order or task to “cancelled” and stores the name of the login user and the current server date as the last modified date. However, you cannot cancel a work order, which is in the “Hold” or “Inprogress” status or the when transient status is “Pending Deferral”.
If WOClass of the work order is “Planned”, ensure you enter comments for cancelling the work order.
If the authorization status of the work order is “Authorized”, the system, before cancelling, checks if the login user has permission to schedule work order.
The system cancels the corresponding Access Panel (AP) tasks, which are not referred by any other task or visit package.
If all the tasks in a work order are cancelled, the system changes the status of the work order to “Cancelled”.
Updates the status of the material request associated to the work order, to one of the following:

Cancelled – If the material request is in “Draft” or “Fresh” status.
Short Closed – If the material request is in “Authorized” status.

Note: If there are issue documents in the “Fresh” or “Draft” status, the system updates the status of those documents to “Cancelled”.

If the cancelled work order has pending work units, the work units are moved to the pending tray for processing.
If the cancelled work order has some precluded work units attached to it as defined in the “Allocate Workunits” activity of the “Central Planning” business component, then the system changes the job status of all the precluding work units to “Pending” and the “Precluded WU” status to blank.
If WOClass of the work order, that is getting cancelled, is of type 'Corrective' then the system changes the “Processed (Y/N)” flag of all the associated discrepancies as 'No' in the ”Discrepancy Processing” business component.
The system cancels all the assignments for the cancelled work orders.
If the selected Hangar Work Order # has been referred to as a Ref. Doc. # in a purchase order of type 'Adhoc PO' or 'Service PO' and the status of the line item in the purchase order is not 'Short Closed' or 'Cancelled' , the system will not allow the hangar work order to be cancelled.

To proceed, carry out the following

Select the “Set Adv. Search Criteria” link at the bottom of the page, to set advanced criteria for searching work orders.

Selecting work order for modification – An overview

In this page, you can select a work order to modify its details. If you know the work order number, you can directly enter it. Otherwise, you can carry out a search based on the work order number, type, status, user status, visit package, work center, aircraft registration number, authorization status and a range of scheduled start dates of the work order.

The system retrieves work orders that are in the “Fresh”, “Authorized”, “Scheduled” or “In-Progress” status.