Team Work Sharing for Supervisors and Team Members

In Obzervr, we allow team work sharing across team supervisors and team members. In this article, we will explain 3 options in the Teams screen that allow you to modify your team work-sharing, how they work on Obzervr Capture, how to enable them on Obzervr Console, and their use:

1. Work Sharing - allowing everyone in the team to share their Work with other team members.
2. Participating Supervisor - allowing everyone in the team to associate their Work with Supervisors.
3. Supervisor Work Sharing - allowing only Supervisors to function as if the Work Sharing is ON, while regular Members would experience the team as if the Team Work Sharing is OFF.

Figure 1: Three (3) options to customize how your team share Work

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First, it is essential that you understand the difference between Assign and Operator functions on the Obzervr Capture:

Assign - Assign the Work to another team member and change the Work's ownership to the newly assigned person.

Operator - Associate other team members to the Work and do not change the Work's ownership.

1. All the options are Disabled

Figure 2: All the options are disabled

Within a Team, when no options are enabled means Team Work Sharing is disabled:

• As a regular team member, he/she can only see Work assigned to himself/herself and complete them.
• As a supervisor, he/she can only see Work assigned to himself/herself but have full right action to those Work Orders assigned to himself/herself.

Figure 3: Personal View when Work Sharing disabled for a regular team member

Figure 4: Comparison between a regular team member view and a supervisor view

Furthermore, when all the team sharing options are OFF these are the options that you can or cannot do to your Work:

2. Work Sharing Is Enabled

Figure 5: Work Sharing is enabled

Within a Team, when the Work Sharing option is enabled, both regular team members and supervisors can see Work assigned to them (on Personal View) and other Work within the team (on the Team View) including Unassigned Work and Work assigned to other team members.

Figure 6: Personal View as a regular team member when Work Sharing enabled - able to see Work assigned to oneself	Figure 7: Team View as a regular team member when Work Sharing enabled - able to see other Work within the team

When Work Sharing is enabled, these are the options that you can or cannot do to your Work:

3. Work Sharing Is Enabled/Disabled and Participating Supervisors Is Enabled

Figure 2: Work Sharing is enabled

Basically, features enabling are similar to when Work Sharing is Disabled or Work Sharing is Enabled (depending on whether you decided to enable Work Sharing or not), but now you can see Supervisors included in the list of the members to be Assigned or Associated.

In other words, no matter if the Work Sharing is enabled or disabled, if:

• Participating Supervisors is turned ON, other Supervisors would be displayed to be assigned/associated with the Work (Figure 7).
• Participating Supervisors is turned OFF, other Supervisor would NOT be displayed to be assigned/associated with the Work (Figure 8).

Figure 7: Supervisors are displayed when Participating Supervisors enabled 

Figure 8: Supervisors are not displayed when Participating Supervisors disabled

4. Work Sharing, Participating are Disabled and Supervisor Work Sharing Is Enabled

Figure 9: Supervisor Work Sharing is enabled

Teams would like the ability to allow Supervisors to see all work for a team, and carry out the features of 'Team Work Sharing' while preventing individual Team members from seeing and performing 'Team Work Sharing' functions.

Within a team, Supervisor Work Sharing allows Supervisors to function as if the Team Work Sharing is ON, while regular Members would experience the team as if the Team Work Sharing is OFF.

Figure 10: Personal View as a supervisor when Supervisor Work Sharing enabled	Figure 11: Team View as a supervisor when Supervisor Work Sharing enabled

Furthermore, when Supervisor Work Sharing is enabled, the options applied the same for regular team members with when Work Sharing is ENABLED, except the following:

Figure 12: Comparison between Regular Team Member view and Supervisor view when only the Supervisor Work Sharing is ON.

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