Reviewing Data

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Summary

Reviewing Data is the final phase of your Quick Start Implementation. From this page, we will lead you through some of the most helpful pages and tools on the TrackAbout website for utilizing and undertanding your data.

Reviewing Asset Data

Asset History

Asset_History

Records

Editing Records

Record_Editing

TrackAbout Dashboard

The TrackAbout Dashboard should be a staple of your daily TrackAbout Administrative activities. The Dashboard provides information about unresolved issues pertaining to your data.

It's important to review your dashboard regularly to address issues. Many TrackAbout clients identify an internal TrackAbout Administrator responsible for the health of their TrackAbout system.

See Dashboard Maintenance for more detailed information about managing your Dashboard.

As part of your Quick Start Implementation, below we will discuss some of the more important aspects of Dashboard Maintenance.

Collisions

An asset collision is a condition that occurs when a barcode or serial number is scanned or keyed-in on a record, and TrackAbout cannot resolve the barcode or serial number to target exactly one asset in the system. For a variety of reasons, but usually data entry errors, there can be two or more assets in the system with the same barcode or serial number. When TrackAbout cannot find one and only one asset that matches, it instead attaches a collision to the record. Collisions on records are called out on the Dashboard page and are one of the conditions that TrackAbout administrators need to be aware of and clean up on a regular basis. The collision attached to the record contains all the known information about the asset that was scanned or keyed in. The collision resolution webpage also provides additional information about the possible matches in order to help the admin resolve the collision. TrackAbout will attempt to auto-resolve any collisions as they might occur by checking other properties of the two or more assets that were located, such as those assets' classifications, product codes, and physical locations. If TrackAbout can intuit that only one of the assets that matched could possibly be the asset in question, it will auto-resolve the collision, no user intervention is required, and no actual collision will be created.

Collisions

Advanced Functionality

TrackAbout provides so much useful functionality beyond what is available through your Core Tracking Module. Review information about Modules and Features to tailor TrackAbout to your needs.

1. Refer to the Module descriptions on our Corporate Site for a high level overview.
2. Refer to the TrackAbout Wiki Module Overviews for more detailed and technical information about Module and Feature functionality.