Add Locations: Sites, Buildings, & Floors
Reminder
- Sites can contain multiple buildings
- Buildings can contain multiple floors.
- Bookable desks/parking spaces, rooms, and other devices are assigned to floors.
If you have questions about organizing these locations, please see the Locations Overview article.
The procedure
1. On the organization's administration console, Select the Locations icon in the navigation panel on the left side of the organization's administration console.
- Note: If you are just getting started with setting up an organization, selecting the "Add buildings and floors" options in the Getting started guide will also take you to the Locations Page
A Locations page with no locations added. Yet.
2. Add a top location: Select the + Add top-location button.
3. Choose a top Location type (Building or Site). Then fill in the Name, Address, and Timezone fields, and Select the Add location button when complete.
- We will be using a multi-building campus in this example, so we will select Site for the location type.
- If your organization will only manage systems in a single building, select the Building location type for your top level.
The campus has now been added to the organization as an example site.
4. Adding buildings: Select the +add sub-locations button to add a sub-location to your top-level location
- In this example, we are adding a pair of buildings to the campus. If your organization will only manage a single building, skip to Step 6 to add floors to your building. 5
5. Fill out the form, including scrolling down to choose time options if they differ from your organization's default settings. Then select the Add location button.
- Note: You will be locked into the Building type if you are adding a sub-location to a site.
An example of two buildings added to our campus site.
6. Adding floors: Select a building Locations pane, then select the +Add sub-location button.
7. Fill out the form and then select the Add location button.
In this example, we have added two floors to one of our example buildings.
Next steps
With buildings and floors added to your organization, you can now add resources to the organization such as desks / parking spaces and rooms. Please the article, Adding Resources: Desks, Parking Spaces, and Rooms.