Space associations
A space association is a type of relationship between the space record and the associated record. Space associations include space allocations and space assignments. A space allocation is an association between a space record and one or more organization records. A space assignment is an association between a person or asset record and one or more space records.
In the IBM® TRIRIGA® application, an association is a link that provides a particular relationship between two business objects. Business objects represent resources such as people, assets, locations, organizations, and geography. When the application generates records from these associated business objects, the corresponding records inherit the same association. Location business objects include many types such as building, floor, and space business objects. A space association is a type of relationship between the space business object or record and the associated business object or record.
- A person or asset might be associated to only one primary location or space, but might be associated to many secondary locations or spaces.
- An organization might have several different associations to the same location or space as Primary Organization, Charge To Organization, and Uses Organization.
- A location or space might have only one association to a geography.
Space allocations
A space allocation is a type of space association between a space record and one or more organization records. You can use space allocations to track the prorated arrangement of organizations that are financially responsible for the space or area. The IBM TRIRIGA application supports both room-level and floor-level space allocations to organizations. In other words, you can allocate an entire floor to a single department, or you can allocate specific spaces within the floor to many different departments. The space allocation process is the simple process of associating or de-associating an organization from the space or area.
Space-level allocations
A space-level allocation is a room-level association to one or more organizations. Adding or removing an association triggers the application to archive any currently active allocation records and to generate a new space level allocation record for each associated organization. With this process, the application reallocates 100% of the space in the space record evenly across all of the associated organizations.
Sometimes, the actual or human resource organization that is occupying the space is not the same as the chargeback or financial organization that is responsible for the space. The space occupancy allocation gives companies the flexibility to set different organizations for occupancy and financial responsibility for the space.
Area-level allocations
An area-level allocation is a floor-level association to one or more organizations. Adding or removing an association triggers the application to archive any currently active allocation records and to generate a new area level allocation record for each associated organization. With this process, the application reallocates 100% of the area in the area overlay record evenly across all of the associated organizations.
Space assignments
A space assignment is a type of space association between a person or asset record and one or more space records. A person can be associated to only one primary location or space, but can be associated to many secondary locations or spaces. In addition, multiple people can share one space, and each person can define the same space as the primary or secondary space. The space assignment can be defined from the person record, space record, or computer-aided design drawing with IBM TRIRIGA CAD Integrator/Publisher.
Similarly, an asset can be associated to only one primary location or space and to only one person. The space assignment can be defined from the asset record, space record, or computer-aided design drawing with IBM TRIRIGA CAD Integrator/Publisher. Meanwhile, the person assignment can be defined from the asset record only.