2.2.1 Registering contract information (New Contract)

By using the New Contract job menu, you can register various types of contract information for devices and software assets.

When a new contract is registered, the corresponding device or software information is not registered. After the contract is registered, use the Contract List job menu to add the subject devices or software.

By default, only the administrator can register new contracts.

To register new contract information, start from the New Contract window, which is displayed by clicking the New Contract job menu. The following figure shows the New Contract window.

Figure 2‒14: New Contract window

Organization of this subsection

(1) Using existing data to register new information

(1) Using existing data to register new information

You can use existing data to specify information about a company with which a maintenance or lease contract is to be signed. To use existing data, use the Company Catalog.

The Contract Catalog dialog box can be used to specify the fields Contracted company, Contact post address, Contact phone/e-mail, Contact person, and User properties. For details about how to specify user properties, see 9.2.3 Adding managed items in the Planning and Configuration Guide.

To specify information about a contracted company using existing information:

Click the Browse button for Contracted company.

The Company Catalog dialog box is displayed.

The Company Catalog dialog box displays a maximum of 20 contracted companies that have been registered most recently.

To cancel, click the Close button.
Select the applicable contracted company and then click the OK button.

The Contract Catalog dialog box closes and the values for Contracted company, Contact post address, Contact phone/e-mail, and Contact person are set. If user properties have been added as managed items, the user properties are also set.
Specify other information, and then click the OK button.

Items identified by a star () are mandatory.

Contract data can also be registered as attached data. For details about how to specify attached files, see 1.4.4 How to specify an attached file.

The contract information is registered based on the specified values.

The following figure shows the Company Catalog dialog box, which is displayed by clicking the Browse button.

Figure 2‒15: Company Catalog dialog box

To delete registered information, select the corresponding contracted company, and then click the Delete button.

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