What's the Meaning of MainBoss Advanced icons?

MainBoss Advanced uses a number of icons to mark information.

For an explanation of icons related to the process of generating planned maintenance work orders, see Icons of Planned Maintenance Work Orders.

To get an explanation of any icon, simply point at it with the mouse. After a moment, MainBoss will display a tooltip explaining what the icon means.

The table below lists MainBoss's most important icons.

Icon Explanation
Actual expense An actual expense (item, labor, or miscellaneous) on a work order
Item Adjustment Item adjustment (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment)
Chargeback Chargeback
Contact Contact (a record from the Contacts table)
Correction Correction (e.g. used in work orders and purchase orders to indicate correction entries)
Physical Count value Physical count value
Demand A demand on a work order
Display Error Erroneous value in field; also used for various other types of errors
Employee Employee (e.g. in the Contact Functions section of a contact record)
Feedback Required Feedback required: used to mark a field that is required but currently does not have a value
Feedback Warning Feedback warning: used to mark a field whose value has caused a warning (e.g. when you try to save a new record with a Code that conflicts with the code of an existing record)
Item Issue Item issue (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment)
Item Item (e.g. used to indicate items on work orders and purchase orders)
Inside Labor Inside labor (e.g. used on work orders)
Outside Labor Outside labor (e.g. used on work orders)
Purchase Order Miscellaneous Purchase order miscellaneous line item
Work Order Miscellaneous Work order miscellaneous expense
Per Job Inside Expense Per job inside expense (on work orders)
Per Job Outside Expense Per job outside expense (on work orders)
Permanent Storage Permanent storage (i.e. a storeroom)
Sublocation Sublocation
Postal Address Postal address
Price Quote Price quote (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment)
Purchase Purchase (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment)
Purchase Order Purchase order
Requestor Requestor (e.g. used in the Contact Functions section of a contact record)
Billable Requestor Billable requestor (e.g. used in the Contact Functions section of a contact record)
Successful Successful
Task Task
Temporary Storage Temporary storage
Trade Trade
Item Transfer Item transfer (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment)
Unit Unit
User User (e.g. used in the Contact Functions section of a contact record)
Actual Vendor (e.g. used in the Contact Functions section of a contact record)
Void physical count Marks an entry that voids a physical count (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment)
Work Order Work order

The icons you see in MainBoss are often constructed by combining the icons above. For example, a demand for an item on a work order combines the demand icon with the item icon.

In addition, many icons may have a red X written over them if they refer to "hidden" records (e.g. records that have been deleted). For example, a reference to an employee record may have a red X on the Employee icon if the original employee record has been deleted. Icons may also be "struck-out" with a red line across them if the associated text comes from a hidden record that is not the "main" record associated with the icon; for example, an Employee icon may be struck-out if the associated text is the employee's name and if the Contact record that gives the employee's name has been hidden (deleted).