Field Service technician service reports

• 01/13/2021
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Field Service technicians often create service reports summarizing work done during a customer visit. These reports can carry details such as tasks completed, and products or parts used during the service. Service reports must often be delivered to the customer in the form of a PDF.

This article outlines how to use the Power Apps Component Framework (PCF) to build a service report for the Field Service mobile application. This article also provides a sample report and PCF control that will serve as a guide for developers to design and import the control for their environments.

Features of the technician reporting PCF control:

• Generate service reports while your mobile app is online or offline.
• Command option on the bookable resource booking form to launch the report.
• Sample report layout with API calls to fetch offline data.
• In-app report preview and signature experience.
• Save the report back to service timeline as a note.
• Accessibility-compliant preview and output report.

Set up mobile reporting

1. Download the reporting solution.
2. Download sample reporting PCF control source code.
3. Import the reporting solution into your environment. The import will install a reporting form, ribbon command, and includes a sample report so you can execute functionality within your environment. We recommend that the solution is imported as a managed solution.
4. After importing the reporting solution, open your Field Service mobile app module in the app designer and enable the reporting form for the bookable resource booking entity.
5. Use your favorite IDE to edit the sample reporting PCF control. Modify this control to change layout, add more branding, updated data, or other updates necessary to meet your reporting requirements.
6. Import the modified PCF control back into your environment, replacing the sample report. For more information, see this article: Steps to import a PCF control

Generate reports from mobile

Launch the Field Service mobile app and go to the bookable resource booking.

Go to More > Report.

Generate reports from web

Administrators and dispatchers can also generate reports when viewing a booking in the web browser.

From the bookable resource booking, select Report.