š USE CASES OF METAFIELDS
Metafields can be used in many ways to enhance your business processes and make your service more flexible!
š NOTIFICATIONS
Trigger-based notifications can be set up according to the metafield value
Example 1
Add a drop-down selection to your metafields, to generate different notifications for different job types
Note: For each job type, we can create a unique notification template!
This way, you can always send personalized notifications to your clients
Example 2
Trigger the metafield only when a specific value is given
Note: For example, if you want to selectively send out notifications to your clients
These were just some of the examples of how you can use metafields in notifications - get creative!
š MAP FILTERS
You can filter tasks in the dashboard view (map view) by metafield value
Any kind of metafield can be filtered on the dashboard if you allow this
Just make the metafield "searchable" while creating it
This way, you can filter out tasks by zones, route number, job or client type, etc.
Example
Let's say you offer your service in multiple districts (zones) and have a total of 400 tasks on the dashboard
Now, you only want to see tasks in a specific district (zone)
Create a new metafield and label it as you like (e.g. āZoneā).
When creating a task, add the new metafield to it and choose in which zone the task should be (Zone1, Zone2, etc.)
Let's say you have 60 points out of 400 marked as Zone1
By filtering tasks in the web dashboard view (using the selection Zone1), GSMtasks will only show you tasks with the selected metavalue
You can easily assign multiple jobs in one go to the drivers you want
Just select the tasks by holding down the Ctrl key and left-clicking on the tasks with your mouse
Right-click on them to change the assignee
š² EDITABLE METAFIELDS FROM THE DRIVER APP
Metafields can be made editable from the driver app
This can be very useful if some kind of feedback needs to be collected from your employees in the field
Make sure you make the metafield visible and editable by the assignee in the mobile app when creating it
Example
Let's say you are a water dispenser company and need to collect the empty bottles from clients
You provide your employee with information about how many bottles are supposed to be collected from each client
For the actual amount of bottles collected, a metafield can be created that is filled out by the employee on the field
You can later retrieve data about each task from GSMtask reports (Tasks -> List view)
This helps to keep your accounting in order!
Metafields can be used in this way to collect any information
For example, how many boxes were collected or delivered, how many hours your employees worked on-site, etc.
You can also send customers notifications after the assignment has been finished and include driver inputted meta values
These were just some of the use cases of metafields in GSMtasks.
The metafields function allows you to be more flexible in your work and enhance your business processes even more!











