A Tracking Statuses is a way to categorize elements, assemblies, and packages into buckets based on their status in a workflow. When applied to an assembly or package, STRATUS will display the status of its lowest child. “Lowest” is indicative of the Tracking Status set under Admin > Company > Tracking Statuses where each tracking status is associated with a number “#” column with 1 being the lowest. A part is a child of an Assembly or Package, while an Assembly is a child of a Package.

Time Saving Note: The STRATUS Customer Success Team has configured and can transfer to your company database Task Definitions, Task Workflows, Task Categories, Cost Categories, Cost Types, Tracking Statuses and other Admin configurations. Contact the STRATUS Service Desk for more information. Screen shots below are taken from the Customer Success Team's configuration.

Videos

Tracking Statuses (6:08) - This video demonstrates:

1. How tracking statuses are used in STRATUS including Display Modes, Filters, Actions, Assemblies, Orders, Plans, TigerStop, and updating status in CADmep and Revit models.

2. How to configure the Tracking Statuses page including the Can Assemble and Can Order check boxes. 

3. How to create a new Tracking Status.

Page Summary

• New Tracking Status - This button will allow you to add a new tracking status.

• Order Number - You can move any tracking status to any position that you'd like to by specifying a position number and clicking the checkbox button.

• Move Arrows - If you wish to move a tracking status up or down you can do so by clicking the up and down arrows.

• Name - This is the tracking status name that will display in STRATUS.

• Can operations - control what types of edits can be made to a part, assembly, or package.

  • Can Assemble - When the Can Assemble tracking status option is checked, it means that an assembly can be edited. For example, adding a part to an assembly is an edit operation. 

  • Can Package - When the Can Package tracking status option is checked, it means a package can be edited. For example, adding parts or assemblies to a package is an edit operation.  When unchecked, it means that the package is not editable. It also means that the package is ready for downstream workflows.
  • Can BOM - When the Can BOM tracking option is checked, it means that the Package > BOM > Generate BOM button will be enabled.
  • Can Cut List - When the Can Cut List tracking option is checked, it means that the Package > Cut List > Generate Cut List button will be enabled.
• Applies to settings -  tells STRATUS that a particular tracking status can or can't be applied to a Part, Assembly, or Package. In other, when unchecked the tracking status will not be available in the tracking status drop-down.
  • Applies to Package - When unchecked, the tracking status cannot be applied to a package.
  • Applies to Assembly - When unchecked, the tracking status cannot be applied to an assembly.
  • Applies to Part - When unchecked, the tracking status cannot be applied to a part.
• Tracking Status Groups - A Tracking Status Group (Office, Purchasing, Shop, Field) is a non-editable category used to categorize Processors under Admin > Company Processors. A Processor is a name for a department, person or group who processes work packages and is specific to your company’s workflow (Ex. Pipe shop, Sheet Metal shop, Purchasing or Detailing, or the Jobsite). There are 2 options for each Tracking Status and Tracking Status Group intersection:
  • Check whether or not the Tracking Status is applicable to the Tracking Status Group.
  • The approximate percent complete of a package for the processor (the Tracking Status Group) when the package is in the Tracking Status. 

• Description - You can give a more in depth tracking status description here.

• Color - Assign a color for filtering using STRATUS viewer Display Modes

• Warning - The Warning option provides users with a visual indication of when work on an item has stopped or is on hold. See Warning Tracking Status section on this page for more information.

• Delete - The trash can button allows you to delete undesired tracking statuses.

Warning Tracking Status

The purpose of the Warning Tracking Status option is to provide users with a visual indication of when work on an item has stopped or is on hold. The Warning checkbox can be checked for any tracking status and when the tracking status is applied, the colors of the page background menu bar items will change. As with all tracking status, even if the Warning checkbox is checked you the other options like Can Assemble, Can Package, Can BOM and the percent complete options still apply to the tracking status.  The “Warning’ tracking status works on the following pages:

• Package details > Tracking
• Assemblies > Viewer
• Landing page when a package QR code is scanned
• Landing page when an assembly QR code is scanned
• Landing page when a part QR code is scanned

To use the Warning Tracking Status:

1. Under Admin > Company > Tracking Statuses, create new tracking status or identify an existing tracking status.
2. Check the "Warning" option checkbox and set the Color to a distinguished color (Ex. Bright Yellow) that will be the warning background color when an item displays.
3. On the tracking status check the Warning checkbox. In this example, on the Package details > Items tab, when a package’s tracking status is changed to ON HOLD, the background color changed to bright yellow and the menu bar item text changed to blue due to the Warning checkbox being checked for the ON HOLD tracking status.