AM982

Inventory MIC and Inventory Embedded

(Modules 1 & 2)

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Not for use or disclosure outside the AT&T companies
except under written agreement
 Initial Screen After Login

This is the screen that

will display after the
User will click on
user is logged into
either the Inventory
AM982.
MIC or the
Inventory Same screen for MIC
Embedded buttons and non-MIC users.
to begin inventorying User will click on either
a fiber using AM982. the Inventory MIC or
the Inventory
Embedded buttons to
begin inventorying a
fiber using AM982.

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 Inventory MIC
Inventory MIC – Used to pull the information about a MIC Project’s
Fiber Component(s) from the MIC application once the Design
Approval Date has been set in MIC. The Fiber Component
information that was entered in MIC will be brought over into AM982
so that it does not have to be typed in again.

Inventory Imbedded
Inventory Embedded – Used to inventory additional strands to a fiber
cable that has already been inventoried in TIRKS. AM982 will only allow
the user to select from a list of Fiber Cable names that are already
inventoried in TIRKS for the Serving Wire Centers (SWC) of the A and Z
CLLIs entered by the user. This list of existing fiber cable names in
TIRKS comes from the FIT application

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Important: If a brand new fiber cable needs to be inventoried then
the user should use the MIC system to add the fiber cable as a Fiber
Component to a new/existing MIC Project. Then the user can use
the Inventory MIC menu item to pull the MIC Fiber Component
(after Design Approval is set) into AM982 for inventorying in
TIRKS

•AM982 will display a Submitted page in the main right-hand frame of

the AM982 display. A new web browser sub-window will also open with
a message that the AM982 system is processing the request. The User
will not have to wait for the TIRKS processing to complete; they are
free to perform another action in TIRKS. The results of the TIRKS
processing will be displayed in the new web browser sub-window when
the processing is complete.

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 Inventory Embedded
Validate Project Number Page
All AM982 users will see this page
when the Inventory Embedded
button is clicked.
Enter a Project
Number that is NOT The Inventory Embedded page is
used when additional strands
a MIC Project
need to be added to an existing
Number. hint: You fiber cable in TIRKS.
can use your suits ID
The user should enter a Project
Number that is not a Project
Number being used in the MIC
application. If a fiber cable from
a MIC project needs to be
inventoried then the Inventory
MIC menu item should be used
instead.
Clicking the Validate button will
cause AM982 to access the MIC
application to make sure the
Project Number is not a MIC
Project Number.

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 Inventory Embedded (con’t 3)
Validate CLLIs Page

This is the page that will be

displayed if the user clicks on
the Validate button on the
Inventory Embedded page.
Enter the A In this example the Project
and Z CLLI’s Number that was entered was
for Existing not a MIC Project Number so
TIRKS fiber the Validate CLLIs page
displayed.
cable
The user should enter the A
and Z CLLIs for the existing
TIRKS fiber cable to which they
would like to inventory
additional strands against.
Clicking the Validate button
will cause AM982 to validate
the CLLIs against TIRKS and
then access the FIT
application to retrieve a list of
existing fiber cables in TIRKS
between the Serving Wire
Centers of the CLLIs.

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 Inventory Embedded (con’t 4)
Validate Fiber Cable Page

The user is presented a list

of fiber cables that exist in
TIRKS between the CLLIs’
Serving Wire Centers
Existing cable names according to the FIT
in TIRKS for the A & application.
Z CLLIs’ Serving The user will select the
Wire Centers. appropriate Cable Name
and then enter the First
Fiber Number and the Last
Fiber Number (Same thing
as the First Unit and Last
Unit).
When the Validate button
is clicked AM982 will verify
that there is not already an
existing record in AM982
that matches the specified
fiber cable. If the record
does not already exist
AM982 will display the Edit
Cable Record page.

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 Enter Cable Record Page
Inventory Embedded (con’t 5)

This is the main cable

record editing page for
AM982.
The user will enter the
fiber cable details into
the Enter Cable Record
page.
All the Enter Cable
Record page actions are
available to the user.

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“Get Frame”
• Click the Get Frame button on the “Enter cable record” screen for span Location A.
After a moment the “Lookup Frames” dialog box will appear.
• Use the dropdown menu to display the list of available frames.
• IF the frame is…
• displayed then Select the frame
• not displayed then select None of the above
If location is…
Midwest CO then click Check RDLOC
Enter Frame Number
Click OK
continue to next bullet point
If location is
other than MW then continue to next bullet point
In the Frame Type box, select the Frame type
Replace default value in Floor/Aisle with
appropriate entry. First 2 characters indicate
floor, the last 4 the location.
click on Build Frame
• Click on Use Frame, on the Lookup frames for … screen
• repeat steps 1-4 for span location Z frame

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“Get Frame” –con’t

Step 1 click the “Get Frame” button. . .

Step 2 List of available frames using the dropdown list . .

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“Get Frame” –con’t
Step 3 When the CO frame you want is not displayed click the
Check RDLOC for CO locations only . . .

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“Get Frame” –con’t

Step 3 when the frame you want is not displayed

Replace default value in Floor/Aisle, then click on Build Frame

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“Get Frame” – con’t
Step 4 click the Use Frame button

Step 5 Repeat steps 1-4 for the Z span location, if needed

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 Enter Cable Record Page
Inventory Embedded – Upload or Cancel Pending
Submission
When the Update TIRKS button or
the Cancel Pending button are
clicked the record will be submitted
to AM982 for processing in TIRKS.
AM982 will now display a message
page immediately in it’s main right
hand frame indicating that the cable
was submitted.
At the same time a new web browser
sub-window will be opened indicating
that the cable is being processed by
AM982 in TIRKS.
The user is free to perform some
other action in AM982 will the AM982
system performs the TIRKS
processing.
When the TIRKS processing is
complete the results will be displayed
in the web browser sub-window.
Once the results have been displayed
the user is free to close the web
browser window sub-window.

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 Inventory MIC
Inventorying Fiber Components from a MIC Project

The MIC User would enter a valid CFAS

Project Number for a Project in MIC and
click the Query MIC button.
AM982 is going to first check to see if
the CFAS Project Number exists in MIC.
If it does not message will display which
will states that the Project Number is not
in MIC.
AM982 will verify that the MIC Project’s
Design Approval Date has been set. If
the Design Approval Date is not set the
Enter a Valid fiber components can not be inventoried
CFAS Project into TIRKS using AM982.
Number for a AM982 will search for any Fiber
Project in MIC Components in MIC for the CFAS Project
Number.
AM982 will return a page listing every
Fiber Feeder Component for the MIC
project.

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 Fiber Feeder Chooser
MIC Project Design Approval Not Set

Page that will be displayed if a

valid MIC Project Number is
entered, but the Design
Approval Date for the MIC
project has not been set.
MIC Fiber Components can
not be inventoried in TIRKS
until the MIC Project’s
Design Approval Date is
set.

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 Fiber Feeder Chooser
MIC Project Design Approval Set

This is the Fiber Feeder page

displaying the Fiber Feeder
Components for a MIC Project
that has it’s Design Approval
set.
This project only has one job,
but multiples jobs can be
displayed and the user can
scroll through the list using the
Previous and Next buttons.

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 Fiber Feeder Chooser
No Matching Records in AM982 (Detail Displayed)

The detail hyperlink will allow the

user to display and hide the detail
about each fiber feeder job.
If a matching AM982 record was
found then the detail information
that will be used (MIC data or
AM982 record) will depend on the
Upload Status of the AM982 record.
If the AM982 record has not yet
been uploaded to TIRKS then the
MIC data will be used. The existing
AM982 record’s data will be
overwritten by the MIC data.
If the AM982 record has been
uploaded to TIRKS then the AM982
record will be used.
In the example an AM982 record did
not already exist for the fiber feeder
so the MIC detail will be used.

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 Fiber Feeder Chooser
No Matching Records in AM982 (Multiple Jobs)

Example of a MIC Project

that has multiple fiber
feeder jobs.
The Next and Previous
buttons can be used to
scroll through the fiber
feeder jobs.

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 Enter Cable Record Page
Loaded with Data from a MIC Fiber Feeder Job

This is the first part of the Enter

Cable Record page. The user scrolls
down to see the rest of the page.
This page’s fields have been pre-
populated with data from the MIC
Fiber Feeder Component that was
selected on the Fiber Feeder Chooser
page.
The pre-populated fields will not be
modifiable. If the values are
incorrect the change should be made
in MIC and then the updated fiber
component can be pulled back into
AM982 using the Inventory MIC
menu item.
At this point a new AM982 record has
not been saved for the MIC Fiber
Feeder job. The user will have to
click on the Update TIRKS buttons
to cause the AM982 record to be
uploaded to TIRKS.
The Save Only button on the page
will be disabled for MIC Fiber
Components.
Any required field in AM982 that has
not been provided by the MIC Fiber
Feeder Job will be provided by the
AM982 user.

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 Enter Cable Record Page
Loaded with Data from a MIC Fiber Feeder Job
(Cont. 1)

Continuation of the Enter Cable

Record page.
The values from the MIC Fiber
Feeder job has been pre-
populated into the
corresponding field.
Any required field in AM982
that has not been provided by
the MIC Fiber Feeder Job will
be provided by the AM982
user.

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 Enter Cable Record Page
Loaded with Data from a MIC Fiber Feeder Job
(Cont. 2)
Continuation of the Enter Cable
Record page.
The values from the MIC Fiber
Feeder job has been pre-
populated into the
corresponding field.
Any required field in AM982 that
has not been provided by the
MIC Fiber Feeder Job will be
provided by the AM982 user.
A record for this fiber cable will
not be saved in AM982 until the
user clicks on the Update
TIRKS button and the record is
saved as part of the upload
process.
The Save Only button will be
disabled for MIC Fiber
Components that have not been
uploaded to TIRKS yet.

‘Save Only’ is disabled

because the MIC Fiber
Component has not yet
been uploaded to TIRKS

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 Enter Cable Record Page
Loaded with Data from a MIC Fiber Feeder Job
(Cont. 3)

Continuation of the Enter Cable

Record page.
The values from the MIC Fiber
Feeder job has been pre-
populated into the
corresponding field.
Any required field in AM982
that has not been provided by
the MIC Fiber Feeder Job will
be provided by the AM982
user.
This is the form that is filled
out by Construction.

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 Update TIRKS Submission
Initial Inventory in TIRKS

When the user clicks the Update

TIRKS button frontend edits will
be performed
The AM982 backend will attempt
to add the cable in TIRKS.
An AM982 record will be saved for
the fiber cable.
If the In Effect Date was set to a
future date the fiber cable will be
added with an Inventory Status of
PA.
• The AM982 InEffector will
move the inventory status to
IE on the IE Date.
• The user can also open the
cable in AM982 and in effect
the cable or change the IE
date.
If the In Effect Date was set to
today then the fiber cable will be
added with an Inventory Status of
IE.

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 Upload Submitted Page

After the user clicks

Update TIRKS they will
get a page like the
following.
The AM982 backend is
performing the work to add
the indicated fiber cable
into TIRKS.
Clicking on the Return to
MIC Fiber Feeder(s) will
return the user to the Fiber
Feeder Chooser page for
the current project.
The sub-window AM982
Processing will display the
results of the backend
processing when the
backend processing is
complete. The user can
work with other fiber
cables in AM982 and check
the AM982 Processing
window when the backend
work is done.

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 AM982 Processing Page Detail
Backend Processing Completed

When the backend

processing is completed for
the submitted job the
results will be displayed in
the same window as the
AM982 Processing Page.
Every time the user submits
a Cable Add, Cable Change,
Cancel Pending, or Cable
Remove process for AM982
to perform in TIRKS a new
AM982 Processing Page
will be displayed to the
user.
This example shows the
web browser sub-window
for a Cable Add. This is the
results page that is
displayed once the
processing in TIRKS by
AM982 was completed.

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