Creating and managing jobs

You can create a job in the Trimble Connect Field Data Viewer or in Trimble Access to organize and assign fieldwork. Created jobs will appear in the Jobs window.

To open the Jobs window, click on the left of the map. The Jobs window lists all the Active jobs in the current project, the job status, the job creator, assigned users, and the last updated date of the job.

To create a job in the Trimble Connect Field Data Viewer:

  1. Click on the Create a Job icon in the Jobs window.

  2. You will be prompted to choose a coordinate system if you have not already assigned one to the project.

  3. Enter the Name of the job. Optionally, you can add the Description of the task, assign a User and add Tags to the task.

  4. Click on Link files to link files from the Trimble Connect project data explorer to the job.

  5. Click on Create Job.

    The created job appears in the Jobs window.

To create a job in Trimble Access, see Creating a job.

Manage your jobs using the tools in the Jobs window:

  • To view the jobs in the project that have been closed, select the Closed panel.

  • To hide or display all jobs on the map, click on the Visibility icon at the top of the Jobs window. To hide or display individual jobs, click on the Visibility icon on each job.

  • To download jobs, click the Download icon on each job.

  • To search for a job by its name, click on the Search icon.

  • To filter jobs, click on the Filter icon . You can filter jobs by the creator, assigned user, last updated date, created date, status or tags.

  • To sort jobs, click on the Sort icon . You can sort the job by the date created, the date modified or the job name.

  • To view the job details, click on a job. The Job details window shows information about the job including features, tags, assigned user, job reports and exports, linked project data and job images.

  • To edit the assigned user, status, tags and linked files of the job, click the Edit icon in the Job details window.