This article contains brief explanations of the other dictionary sections.
Species List
The list contains all the species. If your organization uses eSirius3G, the species list will be automatically imported here. Otherwise, add species manually.
Cage Types
Setup your cage types here. The primary purpose of the Cage types is to help determine metrics for activities.
An example of what can be set up is the level of service for the cages. Examples: Basic Service, Basic Service Plus, Full Service.
Rack Types
Setup your rack types here. You can define Cage Capacity, Number of Sides, and Percent Use of the rack type.
Equipment Types
List all the equipment types you plan to have scheduled activities for. For example, hoods, door jams, vacuums are equipment types. Set Serialized flag to Yes for individualized equipment. Non-serialized will be tracked only by total counts in the room.
Rack Item List
Rack Items are additional items that you want to track on racks. List any item here that you want to track on the rack, for example, ‘water bottles’.
To add Rack Items to existing racks go to Schedule Setup > Rooms > Rack Items tab.
Cage activities, when added to rooms, can also be configured to use rack items for their quantities instead of total cages on the rack.
To configure Cage activities to use rack items, go to the Activities tab, and enter the Use Rack Item field for the cage activity.
Room Statuses
Rooms Status is intended to dictate the order in which rooms appear on the schedule in Daily Planning and My Schedule (mobile access). Lower Priority Sequences should be completed first by staff.
Note: Room Status with selected color will show on the Room Tile in Daily Planning and My Schedule.
Room Types
Room Type sequence is a second level of ordering for rooms after the Room Status in Daily Planning and My Schedule (mobile access). Lower Priority Sequences should be completed first by staff.
Campuses
The campus is used to categorize facilities.
Vendors
Used to categorize Equipment inside rooms/facilities. This is the same Vendor list used in eSirius3G.
PTO Types
PTO type is used to categorize PTO records and is required on the Log PTO form. Required on Log PTO form.
PTO Unplanned Flags
PTO unplanned flag is used to categorize unplanned PTO records. Shows when Unplanned is checked on the Log PTO form.
Overtime Limits
You can define maximum and minimum limits for overtime duration.
Holidays
You can define your institution's Holidays here.
Holiday and Emergency Tiers
In Daily Planning, a Holiday/Emergency Plan can be activated on any day that will automatically scale down the activities on that day. These tiers can be used to help organize and decide on what to remove from the schedule during the Holiday/Emergency Plan.
Priority Sequence is a hierarchy for the tiers in order of importance. 1 = mandatory activity that must be completed in any scenario. Lower numbers are activities that may need to be removed or rescheduled during Holidays and Emergencies depending on how many staff are unavailable.
Once tiers are created, go to the Activities page to choose a tier on each activity.
Scheduling Statuses
Statuses are predefined in the system. However, you can rename or change their icons.
Activity Metrics
This is an alternative way to see all your metrics in one place. It is the same information as you can find in the activity profile.