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How to change the custom' status of a vehicle

How to enable the view/change custom' status option for the vehicles in the Synx Manager App

 

Note: In order to be able to view and change a vehicle’s status, the option to do this must first have been enabled in your user profile.

 

Note: Only users with sufficient permissions can edit user profiles.

Click on your user account name on the far right of the tabbed menu bar.

Click on Settings.

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To check which profile has been assigned to you / the user, click on ‘Users’ under Users & Permissions in the Settings menu.

Settings Menu - Users & Permissions - Users

Scroll down the list of users to find the assigned profile.

Users - list - find profile

Click on Settings in the navigation breadcrumbs, or click on your browser’s back button.

Click on ‘Profiles’ under Users & Permissions in the Settings menu.

User Profiles - list

Find the required profile in the list and click on the Edit button.

Update user profiles - modules (some off)

In the Modules tab, check the ‘FleetManager App’ box if not already checked.

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Click on the down arrow for ‘Live Map’.

Check both boxes for ‘Access to view/edit vehicles custom status’ if not already checked.

Update user profiles - modules - live map

Click the up arrow to close the box.

The vehicle status will now be available in the Fleet Managers App – for individual vehicles on the live map and in the list of vehicles.

To view the status of a vehicle on the live map, touch the vehicle on the map.

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Tap on Change status and select a status from the list.

To see the status of all vehicles which have a status assigned, tap on Select Vehicles from the live map.

NOTE: The colour of the vehicle name denotes its current engine status: Green – vehicle has its engine on; Red – vehicle has its engine off; and Yellow – vehicle is not sending data updates.

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