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that another service activity or appointment cannot conflict with it during automaticscheduling. Forced service activities and appointments might conflict.SiteLocate and select the site for the service activity. Sites are defined in <strong>Microsoft</strong> <strong>Dynamics</strong><strong>CRM</strong> and assigned to resources. Only resources from the same site will be selected. Torecord the specific room or address of the service activity, enter information in the Locationbox. You can select a record from a filtered list in the Form Assistant pane, or you can clickLookup to search for other records.5. Under Scheduling <strong>Information</strong>, you must enter the Start Time and End Time, but the otherinformation is optional.Start Time and End TimeSelect or type in the date and times the service activity starts and ends. The Duration box isupdated to the length of the service activity. If you select a different duration, the End Timeis adjusted. If you type in both the start and end times, the duration will change.If this is an all-day event, click All Day Event. An all-day event is actually the entire workingday of the selected resource. If the resource works 8 a.m. to noon, then an all-day event isfour hours.DurationYou can add additional time to the end of a time slot by changing the duration. Themaximum duration of an activity is 10 days. The default duration is determined by theselected service.NotesYou can add additional information about the customer and service activity in this area. Forexample, you could enter the symptoms of a problem, special requests by the customer, orany messages to pass on to the resources providing the service.6. On the Details tab, you can select and locate a record in the Regarding box to link to this serviceactivity. You can also set a Priority for the service activity, and record a Category and Sub-Category.7. Click Save or Save and Close.The service activity appears as a color block on the Service calendar, as well as on the calendar inthe Workplace and Activities areas.TipYou can record a customer's preferences for a specific time, day, service, facility, equipment, and customer servicerepresentative in the customer record on the Administration tab. As you are scheduling a service activity, thecustomer's preference is displayed in the Form Assistant pane.NotesIf at any time before you save this service activity, you want to search the schedule for an availabletime, you can click Schedule on the Actions toolbar to open the Schedule Service Activity dialogbox.Check the schedule for schedule conflicts<strong>Microsoft</strong> <strong>Dynamics</strong> <strong>CRM</strong> <strong>4.0</strong> User’s <strong>Guide</strong> 355

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