Path: Organization > Repair Center > Records / Identity Tab–Preference Subtab
These two fields concern preventive (or planned) maintenance. WebTMA defines a PM week as 5 days. If your business performs PM maintenance tasks on weekends, enter the number 7 to tell the system it can generate a PM with a weekend (Saturday or Sunday) due date.
If your organization does not perform PMs on weekends, use the number 5. With this setting, all PMs with a Saturday due date generate for Friday. All PMs with a Sunday due date generate for Monday.
The PM Generation field sets the default for how many days in the future the system searches for and adds eligible PM work orders to the list when you generate PMs using Admin > Batch Management > Batch Jobs. The number can be changed when you generate PMs.
As an example using the default 14 days, all PMs due in the next 14 calendar days are generated when you generate PMs.
Set a range between 14 and 21 days to allow technicians sufficient time to complete their PMs and minimize the possibility of work orders remaining open for long periods of time.