New Facility Status field in Planon

What:
Planon is going to push the new Facility Status field into production for Properties, Construction History and Complexes.

When:
September 11th, 2025 @ 8:00 pm

Background:
The Facility Status field will be used to track the status of the facilities while they go through the phases of construction and their lifecycle.  The user-defined status field will remain, but for Properties, Construction History and Complexes they will either be 'active' or 'inactive'.  
  • Active - any facility that was ever studied, purchased, sold, planned, designed, constructed, razed, leased, being demolished, out of service.
  • Inactive - facilities that were combined into one facility number, historical complex placeholders or duplicate records from old systems.
The facility statuses will encompass all the statuses on the workflow diagram below.  This will allow FIS to continue tracking the lifecycle of the facilities while at the same time allowing MSU users to select the facilities for their daily operations while the buildings are going through construction or demolition and aren't technically 'active' from a facility lifecycle standpoint.

Actions:
  • On 9/12/2205 the facility status field will be updated to match the user-defined status field for all the properties, construction histories and complexes.
  • At the beginning of October, the user-defined status will be changed to either active or inactive. 
  • The new field will need to be pointed at anywhere that user-defined status was used for reporting.

Some examples of items that need updating (there are more...):
    • FIT Current Activity Reports
    • Facility Data Reporting
    • FIT buildings, Additions, Complexes
    • Records Project Database
    • Meridian look-up lists using buildings
    • Spartan Space
    • Maps

Please reach out to fissupport@ipf.msu.edu with any questions or concerns.

Published: 9/11/2025 at 8:00 PM

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