Terminology used in Space Planner

Available with the ArcGIS Indoors Spaces extension.

The following are common terms used in Indoor Space Planner.

Hot desk

Hot desks are general spaces in a workspace area that support occupants in their work without assignments to a specific office or desk. Occupants are not assigned to a specific hot desk, but they can use whatever space is available in the area that meets their needs.

Info card

The info card in Space Planner displays information about occupants, units, and assignments based on a selection. The data included in the info card can be customized through the web map pop-up configuration.

Meeting room

Reservation-based work environments use meeting rooms as conference and collaboration spaces that can be booked for use by occupants. Meeting rooms can be booked using Indoor Viewer and the Indoors mobile apps.

Occupant

An occupant is a person who uses indoor spaces. Occupants are commonly employees, tenants, or visitors.

Office hotel

Reservation-based work environments use office hotels as office spaces that can be booked for use by occupants that don't have an assigned space using Indoor Viewer and the Indoors mobile apps.

Organizational hierarchy

The occupants feature class in the Indoors geodatabase has two default values for supporting organizational hierarchy: ORG_LEVEL_1 and ORG_LEVEL_2. The default aliases for these layers are set to Department and Team, respectively. If the default aliases do not match your requirements, they can be changed in the geodatabase or for the map layer. Space Planner shows the alias values for these attributes.

Note:

You can add more organizational hierarchy through additional attributes in the data, but only two levels are shown in Space Planner.

Plan

A plan is a specific scenario for matching occupants to spaces. You can create multiple plans in Space Planner to help you make the best decision about how to design a space.

Reservation manager

A reservation manager can book office hotels or meeting rooms for other people in Indoor Viewer and Indoors mobile.

Scheduling limit

Scheduling limits can be configured for office hotels or meeting rooms to provide control over how the spaces can be booked by occupants.

Space

Space is a generic term referring to areas and volumes in a building. In Space Planner, the space with the smallest area is a unit, and the space with the largest area is a site.

Unit

A unit refers to the space with the smallest area in a building. Common unit types are offices, kitchens, printer areas, and so on.

Workspace area

A workspace area is an area that is used to organize office hotels, meeting rooms, and hot desks. Occupants can be assigned to a workspace area and can book units that are assigned as office hotels or meeting rooms in the workspace area to use for a period of hours, days, or weeks from Indoor Viewer and the Indoors mobile apps.