This activity is used to view and register resource preferences on work tasks. When a job is to be carried out, resources can be registered in the work tasks as preferred resources. Further, there can be preferred resources registered for the object or the location. Preferences registered on the object or the location, will get inherited to the work task when registering a work task. When inheriting preferences from object to Work Task, only the resources that are defined to be used in Maintenance will be inherited to the Work Task whereas only the resources that are defined to be used in Service will be inherited to the Work Task - Service. In addition to that list of values are filtered based on the same settings. Finally, once the work task is scheduled, the prioritization will be given to the preferred set of resources, over other resources.
When registering preferences directly on the work task, it is mandatory to enter a Resource ID and Preference. The Preference, can be 0, 1 or any value between 0 and 1. Entering a preference of 1 indicates that no other resources to be considered for the job, and a value of 0 restrict using such resource on the job. A value between 0 and 1, such as 0.5, works in a sliding scale of preference. The field 'Preference Source' can have values such as Functional Object, Serial Object, Work Task or Location and 'Source ID' displays the identity of the source of the preference.
As a result of this activity resource preferences gets registered against the work task.