As a Community Owner, you may need to set locations to an "inactive" state. An example of this might be if a supplier is transitioning to utilizing alternate manufacturing facilities. Instead of asking the supplier to unshare or delete a location from your community, you can set it as inactive. You can update the state at any time. When a location becomes inactive, it will be excluded from incident reporting drop-down fields and FoodLogiQ Traceability Events. Inactivating locations removes any associated to-dos from the supplier's to-do list.
If you're interested in setting products to inactive you can follow the same process below, or view our Setting Products to Inactive article.
If you're interested in setting suppliers and their assets inactive, you can check out our Setting Suppliers and their Assets Inactive or Active article.
Steps to Set a Location to Inactive
On the left navigation bar, select Locations and check to make sure you’re on the tab Locations Shared With Me. (Traceability customers will see 'Supplier Locations'.)
Click on the location from the list view you wish to inactivate. Click on the button on the top right corner.
Select Inactivate. You will get a pop-up notification in the bottom right-hand corner to confirm location transition and add an optional comment before submitting.
You can re-activate a location by following these same steps. Instead of selecting "Inactivate," select "Reactivate."
To check the state of all your locations, you can return to your Supplier Locations tab and add the column Active to your list view.
To add a column, click on the settings icon on the top right of the table.
Then select Active from list of options and click Save.
Another option is to filter by Active locations only. Click the filter button next to the search box and select Active and click Save.
What happens to Inactive Locations?
- Updating a location to inactive will remove any current to-dos while marking the objects as active will recalculate whether any to-dos are necessary for the product or location.
- The inactive location will be excluded from incident reporting drop-down fields.
- When utilizing FoodLogiQ Traceability Events, the inactive location will also be excluded.