How To Questions
This category addresses many of our common 'how-to' questions within OFS Software
Administration
Operator Console
- How to access the OFS Console on a Tablet or Mobile Phone?
- How to create Multiline tabs in my console?
- How to log in and out of a shift in OFS?
- How to change an operator name or crew that was logged incorrectly?
- How to log a job and end a job in OFS?
- How to edit an incorrect job selected in the OFS console?
- How to end shift and jobs on the console if the buttons disappear?
- How to add an image to the Job screen in the OFS Console?
- How to allocate downtime in OFS?
- How to change an allocated reason in OFS?
- How to allocate multiple reasons during a downtime?
- How to allocate downtime while in a Setup?
- How to log a downtime reason and comment against a monitor point?
- How to filter downtime events on the console?
- How to leave a comment / feedback on the console.
- How to manually finalise counts?
- How to update the IN counts in OFS?
- How to update my OUT counts on the console?
- How to change the language in the OFS console?
Analytics
- How to save reports in OFS Analytics?
- How to delete data in OFS?
- How to group a report based on product data?
- How to order data in ascending or descending order in Analytics
- How to change the OEE Variant and reporting period on the Live Reports?
- How to save Charts in Analytics as an image.
- How to trend data in Analytics?
- How to add and customize reports on the Portal?
- Adding Custom URLs to the Analytics Carousel View
Fusion-Manager
- How to change my password in OFS?
- How to update a user's password?
- How to create a new user in OFS?
- How to add or change console operators?
- How to add or change crews?
- How to create automatic shift schedules?
- How to configure Products in OFS?
- How to create a new job data or editable field within the OFS console?
- How to map a Product List to my OFS Line?
- How to change the Rated Speed for each product in OFS?
- How to change the Rated Speed default in the product list?
- How to send automatic reports to OFS users?
- How to add Subcategories within a Reason list?
- How to configure downtime reasons for monitor points?
- How to schedule jobs?
- How to set up a Planned Expiry?
- How to create a Setup Expiry?
- How to set up an alert for downtime?
- How to set up SMS Services in OFS?
- How to format my Alert message in Fusion Manager?
- How to set a reminder to log a job when a shift is logged?
- How to turn off Setup in OFS?
- How to create a trigger outside of a Setup state?
- How to make a state transition to a downtime at a specific time?
- How to stop time-based alerts from triggering outside of shift hours?
- How to create an alert when the line is not in Run State 'X' duration after shift start
Flow
- How to manually raise a form?
- How to create a secondary alert in a form?
- How to add an image link in a Flow form?
- How to add Pictures to my form?
- How to use Form Filters to Trace Data
- How to create an Out of Spec Flow Report?
- How to add a default alert variable to my flow form?
- How to use job data in a calculation field within my flow form?
- How to round my calculation field to 2 decimal places?
- How to use calculation roundings in OFS-Flow
- How to validate a range in my flow form?
- How to validate a range in my flow form using product metadata?
- How to validate a code from my product list in my flow form?
- How to create a validation for the Multi-Select field in forms?
- How to create run time alerts to celebrate team wins?
- How to validate a label barcode?
- How to validate a best-before date?
- How to validate a form field to 1 decimal place?
- How to validate and differentiate between 0 and empty in flow?
- How to Create Pass/Fail Validation Rules in Your Flow Form
- How to validate a form field to accept exactly 4 numbers
- How to validate a form field for a barcode format like ABCD0312
- How to create a case-insensitive barcode matching validation in my form?
- How to validate a specific product metadata code within a barcode
- How to trigger an alert on a specific shift or crew?
- How to trigger an alert on a specific SKU or job description?
- How to create a conditional expression on PE%?
- How to create a conditional expression for the rated speed