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 |
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An actual expense (item, labor, or miscellaneous) on a work order | |
Item adjustment (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment) | |
Chargeback | |
Contact (a record from the Contacts table) | |
Correction (e.g. used in work orders and purchase orders to indicate correction entries) | |
Physical count value | |
A demand on a work order | |
Erroneous value in field; also used for various other types of errors | |
Employee (e.g. in the Contact Functions section of a contact record) | |
Feedback required: used to mark a field that is required but currently does not have a value | |
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 (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment) | |
Item (e.g. used to indicate items on work orders and purchase orders) | |
Inside labor (e.g. used on work orders) | |
Outside labor (e.g. used on work orders) | |
Purchase order miscellaneous line item | |
Work order miscellaneous expense | |
Per job inside expense (on work orders) | |
Per job outside expense (on work orders) | |
Permanent storage (i.e. a storeroom) | |
Sublocation | |
Postal address | |
Price quote (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment) | |
Purchase (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment) | |
Purchase order | |
Requestor (e.g. used in the Contact Functions section of a contact record) | |
Billable requestor (e.g. used in the Contact Functions section of a contact record) | |
Successful | |
Task | |
Temporary storage | |
Trade | |
Item transfer (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment) | |
Unit | |
User (e.g. used in the Contact Functions section of a contact record) | |
Vendor (e.g. used in the Contact Functions section of a contact record) | |
Marks an entry that voids a physical count (e.g. used in the Activity section of a storage assignment) | |
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).