Bulk Device Assignment

The Bulk Device Assignment dialog box lets you assign status, owner, tracking date, and site values to multiple devices at a time.

This feature is helpful if you are processing a group of devices at once. For example, you may be assigning several devices to a group, or you may be changing the status of devices to "RMA'ed".

To assign status, owner, and site values to multiple devices:

  1. Click Devices in the navigation bar to display the Add, Edit, and Delete Devices page.
  2. Optionally, sort the Devices table by one of the columns.
  3. Select one or more devices.

    To select two or more adjacent rows on the Devices tab, click the first row, then hold down SHIFT while you click the last row to select.

    To select two or more nonadjacent rows on the Devices tab, click the first row, then hold down CTRL while you click other rows to select.

  4. Click Bulk Assignment.
  5. The Bulk Device Assignment dialog box opens.
    To add more devices to the devices list, use the Search By field to search for devices by MAC Address or Serial No. After selecting MAC Address or Serial No, type the search value. As you type a search value, the field displays a drop-down list of closest matching values. You can select a value from the drop-down list, or type the complete value and click Add. The matching device appears in the devices list.
  6. In the Assignment box, specify the Status, Owner, Tracking Date, and Site values to assign to the devices in the device list.
  7. Click Save to save changes, close the Bulk Device Assignment dialog box, and display the Devices page.
Table 1. Bulk device assignment fields

Field

Maximum Length

Description

Status

20

Select the device status from the list.

On the Status Options tab, you can define additional device status values.

Owner

50

Use the Owner field to specify the group that owns the device. In the Bulk Device Assignment dialog box, click the Select button to open the Select Group dialog box, then choose a group from the list and click Finish.

Tracking Date

n/a

Select a date used to track the device, for example, the date it was sent for repair or RMA'ed. If you type the date, use the correct date format:

United States: mm/dd/yyyy
Other locales: dd/mm/yyyy
                          

Site

50

Use the Site field to specify the device's home site. In the Bulk Device Assignment dialog box, click the Select button to open the Select Site dialog box, then choose a name from the list and click Finish.

  • If your organization has multiple sites connected to the same Vocera Voice Server, choose the home site that represents the user's physical location.

  • If your organization does not have multiple sites, accept the default Global setting. When working in the data-loading template, leave this field blank to accept Global.