Field Service Subtabs on Employee and Customer Records

After you install Field Service Management (FSM), the Field Service subtab appears on employee and customer records in NetSuite. Use the Field Service subtab to configure and review technician access, availability, inventory locations, regions, languages, assets, and cases.

Field Service Subtab on Employee Records

Use the Field Service subtab on an employee record to manage a technician's FSM Mobile access, availability, inventory locations, operating region, and labor cost.

Field

Description

Field Service Labour Cost

Records the technician's labor cost. Set this field when tracking profitability or labor costs.

Field Service Mobile User

Enables FSM Mobile access for the employee. Check this box before assigning mobile work.

Field Service Work Calendar

Specifies the technician's working and nonworking hours for scheduling on the Schedule Board.

Field Service Employee Location

Identifies the inventory location assigned to the technician, such as a van location. Set this field when the technician records stock usage in field work.

Field Service Region

Identifies the technician's operational region. Use this field when scheduling or operational filtering uses regions.

Field Service Latitude

Stores the north-south geographic coordinate for the technician's map location. FSM uses location data to place resources on the Schedule Board map.

Field Service Longitude

Stores the east-west geographic coordinate for the technician's map location. FSM uses location data to place resources on the Schedule Board map.

Field Service Skill

Identifies a technician's skill for FSM resource information and skill-based filtering.

Field Service Employee Warehouse

Identifies the warehouse or inventory location associated with the technician. Use it when the technician's available parts and stock transactions must be associated with a specific warehouse or van location.

Field Service Geolocation

Supports geolocation mapping for the technician. To use geolocation mapping, grant location permission in the browser or on the device.

This field doesn't replace the Field Service Latitude and Field Service Longitude fields.

Field Service Language

Selects the language FSM Mobile uses for configured custom form field labels. If blank, FSM Mobile uses the account's default language.

The selected language also affects the Enhanced Technician Notes feature. For more information, see How Technician Language Affects Enhanced Technician Notes.

Customer Record Field Service Subtab

Use the Field Service subtab on a customer record to view and manage FSM information associated with that customer.

General Field

Field

Description

Field Service Language

Sets the language for FSM Service Reports and related notification emails for work connected to this customer. With Multi-Language enabled and translations available, report and email content follows this selection. Otherwise, FSM falls back to the account base language.

Field Service Asset Subtab

The Field Service Asset subtab lists serviceable assets associated with the customer, such as installed equipment, property, or infrastructure. Click New Field Service Asset to create an asset for the customer.

Field

Description

View

Selects the saved-search view used to display the Field Service Asset list.

Item

Filters the list to assets associated with a selected NetSuite item.

Customer Name

Filters the list by the customer linked to each asset. On a customer record, this normally matches the current customer.

Region

Filters the list by the Field Service Region assigned to the asset.

Field Service Asset

Filters the list to a specific Field Service Asset record.

Cases Subtab

The Cases subtab lists Customer Relationship Management (CRM) cases connected to the customer.

Field

Description

Asset

Filters cases by the customer asset that needs service.

Case Type

Filters by the kind of work, such as:

  • Install

  • Maintenance

  • Repair

  • Uninstall

Asset Serial

Finds cases for a specific serialized asset.

Status

Filters cases by FSM work status, such as:

  • Not Started

  • In Progress

  • Escalated

  • Re-Opened

  • Closed

Related Topics

General Notices