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Start, Pause, and/or Resume a Work Order

You start a work order when you are ready to actually begin doing the work to complete the task of the work order; you pause it when you stop working on it temporarily and need to turn off the automatic time tracking feature of the work order, and you resume the work order when you are ready to work on it again and need to turn on automatic time tracking.

Start a Work Order

To start a work order, complete the following steps:

  1. If you have not already picked up the work order, refer to the Pick Up a Work Order section of this guide for instructions on how to do that.
  2. After you have picked up the work order and it is open in CorrigoNet, click the Start button at the top of the work order details section.
  3. A Start Work Order popup screen appears, notifying you of the time and date you are starting the work order. Show me
  4. Click OK to continue.
  5. The status of the work order changes from Open to Open:In Progress and the Start button on the screen changes to a Pause button.

Pause a Work Order

Pausing a work order stops time tracking for that work order and changes its status to Open:Paused.

  1. On the work order details screen for an Open: In Progress work order, click the Pause button.  
  2. The Pause Work Order screen opens, displaying each of the people who have started, but not completed, recording time for the work order. Show me
  1. On the Pause Work Order screen, click OK to close the screen and pause the work order.
  2. The work order status updates to Open:Paused and the Pause button changes back to Start.

Resume a Paused Work Order

  1. Go to the Work Order details screen for the paused work order.
  2. Click the Start button.  
  3. A Start Work Order popup screen appears.
  4. Click OK.
  5. The status of the work order changes from Open to Open:In Progress and the Start button on the screen changes to a Pause button.