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System administrators define settings for features, work orders, bookings, agreements, and more on theField Service Settings page.

In Field Service, change to theSettings area.
In theGeneral section, selectField Service Settings.
Select the tab for the settings you want to change and fill in the information, as required. Refer to the following sections for a description of the settings.
SelectSave to apply your changes.

Auto-numbering settings

Several entities in Field Service use incremental numbers for distinction. Auto-numbering ensures that records get unique naming and that there are fewer gaps in the entity names because they're created when saving a record. You can configure the numbering settings for each supported entity.

Opt in to auto-numbering

In Field Service, change to theSettings area.
Go toGeneral >Field Service Settings.
SelectOpt-In to Auto-Numbering in the command bar.
In the dialog box, selectOpt-In.

During the initial opt-in process, creation of new records might fail. We recommend enabling the feature when there's no activity in the application. The process takes a few moments to complete.

Configure auto-numbering

In Field Service, change to theSettings area.
Go toGeneral >Field Service Settings.
SelectAuto-Numbering in the command bar.
In theConfigure Auto-Numbering dialog box, configure the numbering settings:
- Choose theEntity.
- Set thePrefix,Number Length, andStarting Number.
SelectApply.

Features settings

This settings tab lets you enable toggles for preview, copilot, and a few other features.

Option	Description
Preview section
Enhanced characteristics	Enableenhanced characteristics to add more details to a resource's characteristics.
Copilot in Field Service section
Copilot for work order	Enablework order summary with Copilot to provide a summary of a work order.
Copilot in Microsoft Outlook	Disable the use of copilot capabilities in Outlook for Field Service. If enabled, you agree that data might be stored and processed outside of your tenant's geographic region or compliance boundary. For more information, seeFAQ for Outlook using Copilot in Field Service.
Other settings section
Insurance policies	Enableinsurance policies to create an insurance policy.
Trades	Enabletrades to create trades and trade coverages.
Warranties	Enablewarranties to create warranties and define coverage.
Not-to-Exceed	Enablesnot-to-exceed values to set an optional cost or price limit for a work order.

Work Order / Booking settings

This settings tab lets you define several default values and basic settings related to work orders and bookings.

Option	Description
General section
Default work order completed status	Choose whether the default booking status for a completed work order isCompleted orPosted. For more information, go toSet up booking statuses.
Default Warehouse	Specify the default warehouse for work order products when a warehouse is required and isn't specified on theWork Order Product. The system doesn't automatically populate the warehouse for all work order products. It only uses this default if a warehouse is required and left blank. Learn more inCreate a warehouse.
Timestamp Frequency	Choose when the system updates the timestamp for a booking.
Suggest Reparenting Customer Assets	Warn users when a customer asset gets added to a work order that doesn't relate to the work order's service account. If set toYes, the system offers to map the customer asset to the work order's service account. When set toNo, the warning and suggestion don't show.
Calculate Price	Work orders contain pricing-related fields and functions. By default, this field is set toYes, which enables pricing-related fields and logic. Changing the setting toNo removes all pricing-related fields and disables the pricing logic, so work orders won't generate invoices after completion.
Calculate Cost	Enabling work order costs adds cost fields on work order products, work order service, and summary fields on work orders. It lets you track estimated and actual costs per work order. Track costs to establish cost trends over time and review them based on work order categorizations such as trade and work order type to understand your business and where to optimize service delivery. IfNot-to-exceed is enabled, it's automatically added to the work orders based on not-to-exceed values in the system. Cost summaries on work orders appear in a summary card and are the sum of the costs of all work order products and services, including taxes.
Show Simplified Work Order Commands	This setting simplifies the command bar on work order records and lists. By default, the setting isturned on. Turn the simplified commands setting off to see all available options on the command bar. You cancustomize the command bar to manage which commands to show.
Work Order Invoice Creation	Choose if the system should automatically generate a billing invoice for work orders when the status changes toClosed - Posted.
Travel Charge Item	Select the product that the system uses for travel charges for a work order. The pricing is determined by the settings Travel Charge value on the service account. For more information, go toAccounts.
Disable Customer Asset Validation	Control work order creation if customer assets on the work order don't belong to the same service account. When set toYes, users can't create a work order if the customer assets don't relate to the service account. When set toNo, the system requires customer assets related to the service account on a work order. For more information, go toValidate customer assets on work orders.
Calculate Tax	Tax codes calculate and add taxes to products and services. When set toNo, the tax code field and calculations from all related forms are disabled. If this setting is set to no, tax related fields are hidden by default and their values are irrelevant.
Generate Actuals	When set toYes, the system creates records with actuals over the course of a work order's lifecycle. If set toNo, the system disables the creation of work order-related actuals.
Resource pay type section
Work Pay Type	Choose theresource pay type for work performed during regular work hours.
Business Closure Pay Type	Choose the pay type for days marked asBusiness Closures. For more information, go toSet when your business is closed.
Travel Pay Type	Choose the pay type for time that a resource is traveling to a service location.
Overtime Pay Type	Choose the pay type for time outside of the scheduled work hours.
Break Pay Type	Choose the pay type for time that the resource is taking a break while performing service work.
Crew management section
Default Crew Strategy	Select the crew strategy applied as a default to allresource crews defined in the system. You can override the crew strategy for each resource crew independently.
Mobile section
Enable Booking Map for Field Service Mobile	Turn on an external service to enable the booking map in the Field Service Mobile app module. Review the terms of use and confirm to enable the booking map.

Agreement settings

Field Service agreements allow organizations to automatically generate work orders and invoices. For more information, go toSet up agreements.

Option	Description
Auto Generate Work Order for Agreement Booking	Select whether the system should automatically generate work orders based on agreements. If set toNo, users have to create the work orders manually.
Generate Booking Dates X Months in Advance	Agreement booking dates help organizations plan for maintenance. If an agreement spans a long time period, you might not want to generate all booking dates at once. Agreements generate booking dates based on the agreement booking setup recurrence schedule. With autogenerate enabled, the system creates a work order booking on these dates. This setting determines how many months in advance the system generates the agreement booking dates.
Generate Invoice Dates X Months in Advance	Agreements generate invoice dates based on the agreement invoice setup recurrence schedule. With autogenerate enabled, the system creates an invoice record on these dates. This setting determines how many months in advance the system generates the agreement invoice dates.
Pre/Post Booking Flexibility Date Field Population	When configuring an agreement, you can define pre- and post-booking flexibility fields. These fields set the time frame in which each work order should get booked. This setting defines whether work orders generated from agreements populate this time frame in theDate Window Start/End or theTime From/To Promised fields. This setting also controls whether theDate Window Start/End fields are visible on the work order. If the agreement is set to populateDate Window Start/End, these fields are visible on the work order; otherwise, they're hidden by default.
Generate Agreement Work Order X Days in Advance	Number of days in before the booking date when the system generates the work order record.
Generate Agreement Invoices X Days in Advance	Number of days in before the invoice date when the system generates the invoice record.
Record Generation Timing	Defines the default time to generate work orders and invoices based on agreements. The setting helps to ensure that work orders aren't created in the middle of a work day while dispatchers are scheduling and managing other jobs. You can override this value for each agreement.Start/End Times values for bookings andTime To/From Promised values for work orders generated by agreements use the time zone of the related agreement owner.

Purchase settings

You can use purchase orders (POs) to add inventory to a warehouse, or to purchase products to sell to a customer in a work order. For more information, go toCreate a purchase order.

Option	Description
Purchase Order Approval Required	Choose if a purchase order needs approval before changing the status toSubmitted.
Use of Products Out of Stock	Choose how the system reacts when a user adds a product to a work order that's currently not in stock.Confirm asks the user to decide whether to continue or not.Restrict doesn't allow using that product.

Intelligence settings

Predictive work duration and Incident type suggestions will be deprecated in November 2024.

Option	Description
Enable Suggested Duration	When enabled, this setting looks at historical booking data and suggests an average duration at the incident type level.
Historical Data Filter	This setting is used for both the suggested duration and incident type suggestions. It defines the data scope for analysis when looking at historical data to provide suggestions.

Field Service SLA Configuration settings

Use this tab to manage service level agreements (SLAs) for work orders.

Time Entry settings

Time entries help track the time that technicians spend on various stages of a work order. For more information, go toTime entries.

Option	Description
Time Entry Generation Strategy	Enable the system to automatically generate time entries based on booking timestamps. If the setting is empty or set toManual, the system expects manual time entries. Regardless of the setting, you can always create time entries manually.
Time Cost Actuals Source	Choose if cost actuals generate based on booking journals or time entries when the time entry is marked as approved. If this setting is empty, the system generates time and cost-focused actuals from booking journals. Actuals are generated when a work order is set toClosed - Posted.

Mixed Reality settings

Change Field Service settings for mixed reality apps. For more information about the integrations with mixed reality apps, go toCollaborate in mixed reality with Field Service and Remote Assist andIntegrate Guides with Field Service.

Option	Description
Disable Booking Status Changes	Specify if users can change a booking status in Dynamics 365 Remote Assist on HoloLens.
Assign Mixed Reality Security roles	Adds security roles for Dynamics 365 Guides and Dynamics 365 Remote Assist to users that are assigned one of the predefined Field Service security roles. Refer to theMixed reality role mapping table to understand which default roles the system assigns. Disabling the setting stops the automatic role assignment for new users moving forward. It doesn't remove security roles that are already assigned. Toenable custom security roles to access mixed reality apps, review the default security roles for Guides or Remote Assist to identify privileges that your custom security roles need.

Option

Description

Disable Booking Status Changes

Specify if users can change a booking status in Dynamics 365 Remote Assist on HoloLens.

Assign Mixed Reality Security roles

Adds security roles for Dynamics 365 Guides and Dynamics 365 Remote Assist to users that are assigned one of the predefined Field Service security roles. Refer to theMixed reality role mapping table to understand which default roles the system assigns. Disabling the setting stops the automatic role assignment for new users moving forward. It doesn't remove security roles that are already assigned. Toenable custom security roles to access mixed reality apps, review the default security roles for Guides or Remote Assist to identify privileges that your custom security roles need.

Mixed reality role mapping

Field Service	Guides	Remote Assist
Field Service - Resource	Restricted Operator, Basic User	Remote Assist - App User, Basic User
Field Service - Dispatcher	Restricted Operator, Basic User	Remote Assist - Administrator, Basic User
Field Service - Administrator	Author, Basic User	Remote Assist - Administrator, Basic User

Inspection settings

Inspections are forms that technicians use to answer a list of questions as part of a work order. For more information, go toAdd inspections to work orders.

Option	Description
Analytics enabled	Turn the analytics for inspections on or off. For enabled analytics, you can specify the frequency and the start time of the analysis.

Other settings

Option	Description
Auto Allocate Estimated Products	When products are added to a work order before the work begins, the status of the work order product record defaults toEstimated. This setting determines whether the work order product record is set toAllocated when the line status is stillEstimated, as opposed toUsed.
Auto Geo Code Addresses	Specify whether the system should automatically add the appropriate latitude and longitude values based on the account's address. For more information, go toTurn on auto geocoding.
Use Enhanced Background Processing (Preview)	Field Service includes various system jobs that run in the background to perform various tasks, especially related to Agreements. Disable this setting to use the existing and established, GA quality workflows feature to handle these background jobs. If you would like to try out the preview Power Automate Flows feature instead, enable this setting. For Field Service, enabling this option might improve some complications if an Agreement owner no longer has access to Dynamics 365. However, this feature is still in Preview mode and isn't yet as stable as Workflows. Additionally, there might still be design changes to this feature before it reaches maturity.
Enable Address Suggestions	Enable this setting to get suggestions when entering the addresses in various forms.
Product cost order	Choose the order for product cost.
Work Order Subgrid Records Open as Popups	Specify if work order subgrid records open as a popup on work order form. Subentities of the work order entity: work order product, work order service, work order service task, work order incident, bookable resource booking, and time entry.