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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 31, 2024

Work Order indicator that a lease/rental contract exists for the asset

When you are planning work or about to work on an asset, you should know whether the asset belongs to an active lease/rental contract, or there is a warranty/service contract, there is already a field to indicate that a warranty exists. You can then use the View Contracts action in Asset details menu and navigate to the contract to review Terms or Properties. There should be a visual indicator that a contract exists, rather than relying on someone remembering to go and look at View Contracts. These assets are likely to be in the minority, so a reminder (and warning) would be useful.

Additionally, it would be very useful to know the Asset Owner (company) on the work order. In some cases assets can be jointly owned, but in the initial case a Primary Owner would meet most clients needs. This would be an Asset field crossed over (persistent) to the WORKORDER object so that it can be used in reporting.

(See also https://ibm-ai-apps.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/MASM-I-1118) which is the same but for the Assets application.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool