Use

This function allows you to create meter reading orders for more multiple meter reading units and dates.

Prerequisites

Schedule records must already exist when you create mass orders. Schedule records are created in the scheduling component.

Features

You can only create meter reading orders for one or more meter reading units. There must also be at least one schedule record with an order date within the period entered during mass order creation.

You can control mass order creation using the following fields:

If you enter a scheduled meter reading category and do not select the Use MR cat. from sched. rec field, the system creates meter reading orders for the scheduled meter reading category entered here. This allows you to create multiple orders for meter reading by the customer and subsequently for meter reading by the utility company. In this case the scheduled meter reading category from the schedule record is ignored.

If you select this field, the system creates orders with the meter reading category in the scheduling component. In the meter reading unit, you can define a schema with schedule records of certain meter reading categories. If you select this field during order creation, the system creates orders with the appropriate meter reading category. This allows you to control the sequence of meter readings with different categories at the level of the meter reading unit or order creation.

The system ignores settings for meter reading type control and uses the meter reading category from scheduling.

If you select this field, the system checks wither a meter reading order or result exists within the meter reading interval. If so, the system suppresses the meter reading order with the meter reading reason with the lowest priority.

You can speed up order creation by not selecting this field. The order is then always created, even if you have defined meter reading reason priorities for interval checks.

If you select this field, the contracts for which orders have already been created are not checked for completeness the next time you carry out billing-related order creation. This improves performance when you repeat order creation.

Activities

You can schedule mass order creation in background jobs for better performance. You enter the selection criteria and save them as a variant. You can then supply this variant with start parameters and schedule it to run in a background job.