We sat down with James Slavet FleetMatics Systems Training Manager, and got some hot info on how to really rock your dashboard.
Setting Up Your Dashboard
Customers should perhaps take better advantage of their ability to personalize admin – user management. They can do this by creating areas. Simply click the ‘Add’ Button in the top left under Dashboards, select ‘Area’, then label the area whatever you want. This is often effective to create Areas for different branch locations or a ‘POIs’ Area. Areas act as folders within your system so you can then re-assign users, vehicles, or POI’s (points of interest) to them. This will allow customer support to create users for you that see only what you have put in a specific, or multiple specific locations. An example of this is that I may have a Boston, Chicago, and Charlotte office. I would create an Area for each as well as a ‘POIs’ Area. By calling support they can create users that only see their offices so that my Boston manager only sees the Boston office or the Boston office and the ‘POIs’ Area. Having a common ‘POIs’ area will allow different users to make POIs that can be shared across the company. To resign a vehicle or POI or user you simply click the POI button to the far right of what you want to move and the select the department that you want it to be assigned to. Even if you don’t have a need for many areas creating a general ‘POIs’ Area and a general ‘Vehicles’ Area can be very helpful because it will allow you to assign all of your vehicles under one are and POIs under another which makes the user management page much easier to navigate….
Here are some screen shots.
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Notice how much easier it is for me to now find what I want. My test vehicles are sperate from my training vehicles and team vehicles and POIs.
Car 54, Where Are You?
A GPS Fleet Tracking system has the capability of answering the five key questions of any activity, who, what, when, where and why. GPS tracking is one of the great innovations of mankind. Perhaps not everyone will see it as vital as fire or the wheel. But when you think about it – with GPS you can never be lost. You always know where you are. That takes a lot of confusion out of the daily scheme of things. And with GPS tracking you know where you have been and how soon it will take you to get where you are going. Furthermore, the applications are myriad. You can alert customers to delays or even potential early arrivals. If a vehicle goes down you know who is closest. You save time, energy and money with this investment that rapidly pays for itself.
For some time now you have been hearing the word green. But what is green and how does it affect you as a businessperson? Green is the more common term for sustainability.