Difference Between a Circulating Component and a Normal Component

A “Circulating component” has all the functions a regular component has, but it also has some additional ones.  

1. Once a component has been configured to be circulating two additional buttons will appear in the top menu of the component form. Mount and  Dismount. One of the buttons will always be inactive, depending on if the component is mounted or not. 
2. Two additional fields will appear on the component general tab, just below the “Circulating”, check box. These are “Mount/dismount date” and “Mount position”. 
3. In the component structure circulating components are marked by the same symbols, indicating if it is “mounted” or “dismounted”.

Component structure view with mounted and dismounted components. 

1. All circulating components will be listed under the “circulating components” list, found on Inventory | Components | “Circulating Components” tab. On this tab all mounted circulating components are listed on the left and the dismounted on the right. Selecting a component from one of the lists will display the mount/dismount history of the selected component in the grid at the bottom.

The circulating components tab.