VMT Icon  How to Add, View and Delete Maintenance


Adding a New Maintenance
Data must be entered ( or selected )  for all the fields in the area labeled "Add or Delete Maintenance" and press the "Add"(+) button.

1.1 Select the vehicle and provider names from the popup menu. The vehicle and popup menu content is maintained via the "Maintain vehicle/provider" menu option on the popup menu. There has to be at least one vehicle and one provider already added before vehicle maintenance may be added.

1.2 The service task identifies the name of the service such as an oil change, new battery or new tires. Service task names can be whatever you choose and are maintained via the "Maintain Tasks..." popup menu item.

1.3 Service mileage, service date and service cost must be entered but cost may be zero.

Viewing Existing Maintenance
Entered/completed maintenance tasks are shown on the lower section of the window in tabular format when the application launches. Maintenance may be sorted by the column headers ( Vehicle, Task, Date etc. ). A subset of the maintenance may be displayed at the bottom of the screen by selecting a date range using the "Filter Maintenance List" box and pressing the Show button. Viewing existing maintenance tasks does not add or delete maintenance and only changes the maintenance items displayed on the lower half of the screen

Deleting an Existing Maintenance
The steps are:

(1) Double click one of the maintenance items in the tabular list at the bottom of the window to activate the delete button(-).
(2)  Press the delete button. There is no warning, so be sure before pressing the delete button.

Service Task Addition, Usage and Deletion
Service tasks consist of three elements: the service task name, the time interval and the distance ( in miles or kilometers ) interval. Service tasks may be added ( if not already in the popup menu list ) during the addition of a maintenance task or independently.  When a service task is added, a task name, time interval and mileage/kilometer interval must be entered. Like the vehicle names and provider names, the service tasks are saved for future use.

The time and mileage/kilometer intervals are used to calculate when the next maintenance is due and indicate how often a service task should be performed. For example, some maintenance might be done based on a time interval such as every three months, while elapsed vehicle mileage/kilometers might be better in other cases. It is up to the user to decide which is more appropriate.

Service tasks may be deleted via the window that appears when selecting the "Maintain Tasks..." menu item on the task popup. Task deletion operates the same way as Maintenance deletion described above by double-clicking on the list portion of the window and using the delete button (-)