Set up frontline workers in your organization

Frontline workers in Dynamics 365 Field Service are people in your organization who are primarily scheduled for onsite jobs and who use the Dynamics 365 Field Service mobile app for their work. Set up frontline workers to ensure they can immediately engage on work order. Technically, frontline workers are a bookable resource record in Field Service.

On the Get started page, admins can use a single form to set up frontline workers in their organizations to quickly get up and running.

Prerequisites

Set up frontline workers

  1. In Field Service, change to the Service area and go to Get started.

  2. In the Set up your frontline workers section, select Set Up.

  3. In the Quick Set Up: Frontline Workers form fill in the following details:

    • Users: Choose users to create as frontline workers. When you choose more than one user, they all get the same properties assigned as defined in the following sections.
    • Characteristics: Choose skills and qualifications for your frontline workers.
    • Territories: Choose which territories your frontline workers belong to.
    • Time Zone: Select the default time zone for the frontline workers.
    • Security Role choose the security role for your frontline workers. You can add multiple security roles, including custom security roles.
    • Field Security Profile choose the column-level security profile to control access for your frontline workers. You can add multiple field security profiles, including custom field security profiles.
    • Mobile Offline Profile sets the default mobile offline profile your frontline workers. Only published mobile offline profiles show in the list.
  4. Select the checkbox to send an email to newly created frontline workers with a link to download the mobile app. If you can't send an email to frontline workers, get your email address approved by the global admin. For more information, see Add and approve email addresses.

  5. Select Save and close to create the frontline workers as bookable resources.

View and update the details of individual frontline workers

Frontline workers are stored in the bookable resource table. You can view and update the details for each resource.

  1. In Field Service, change to the Resources ares and go to Resource > Resources.

  2. View or update the resource properties as needed. For more information, see Set up bookable resources.

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