FUSION - FAQs


	Frequently Asked Questions

	Managing UsersAssessmentsSpace InventoryPlans & ProjectsOther 1. Can district administrators restrict users by module (e.g., Space Inventory, Planning)? 2. As a district administrator, can I limit campus users so they cannot see the district information? 3. How many District Administrators can/should be assigned to my district? 4. How do District Administrators identify who has access to their district data? 5. I am a FUSION District Administrator. How do I add new FUSION users for my district? 1. How long will the assessment take? 2. What will the assessment cost us? 3. Why are my floor plans needed in advance? 4. What to the assessors do with the plans we send? 5. What kind of information should the floor plans contain? What level of detail is needed? 6. Will my staff need to participate throughout the on-site portion? 7. What kind of disruption to classes in session should we expect? 8. Will the assessors need access to every room in every building? 9. Will the assessors access the roof tops? 10. When will I get my Facilities Condition Assessment Report? 11. How do I get a copy of my assessment report? 12. Why are new buildings being added to my FUSION Space Inventory? 1. Who can add a campus? a building? 2. How do I view last year's inventory? 3. What is the “Status" column in both the Buildings and Rooms screens in the Space Inventory? 4. Who can view previous year’s space inventories? 5. Why can't we have FUSION automatically restrict the addition of new space so it does not create a cap/load ratio over 110 percent? 1. I am preparing my next five year plan submittal. How do I revise an initial project plan (IPP) that was approved last year? 2. How to update the contacts listed on the Capital Five-Year Plan cover page? 3. How many years are displayed for local plans? 4. When you add a project, are the dates validated against the occupy date? 5. Can I view and print my previous year's plans? 6. On the IPP form, where are the cap/load ratios coming from? 7. Will the complete SAM documentation be available in FUSION? 8. My project has a status of Pending. How do I change it? 9. How to mark a FUSION projects as Complete? 10. What do we do to access an existing "IPP Approved" when the District has decided to not prepare the FPP but RESUBMIT the IPP (thus, shifting the schedule out one more year)? 11. How many characters be included in the "Project Description" field be in the IPP form? 12. Why does the data in the JCAF 31 update the Distribution of Space? Shouldn't this data be saved separately? 13. JCAF 31. What is it and how do I work with it? 14. JCAF 32. What is it and how do I work with it? 15. JCAF 33. What is it and how do I work with it? 16. What is the ‘Equipment Cost Reusable’ in the New Space column for (JCAF 33)? 17. How do I change a project’s assigned priority? 18. What safeguards (prompts) are there to warn someone they are working on the 5 Year Plan (on Inventory) for a year other than the current? 1. How do I obtain access to FUSION? 2. I have forgotten my UserID and/or password. What do I do? 3. How will consultants who work with multiple districts get passwords? 4. How do I change my district user status? 5. How to increase the amount of information displayed on the computer screen? How to change the screen resolution? 6. What computer resources or specifications are needed to use FUSION? 7. Can we change the campus number? 8. Can we use special characters in the facility tree? 9. How do you copy data into Excel or another software application? 10. Who can set project priorities? add projects? exclude projects? 11. What are the different FUSION user roles? 12. Can a Macintosh computer be used for working with FUSION? 13. How do I print information from FUSION when a specific report is not available? 14. I am currently assigned as a visitor in FUSION for one campus. How do I change my user status so that I can add and edit information? 15. What are the differences between FUSION users assigned as Administrators, Users, and Visitors? 16. How to make submittals in FUSION 17. Why are some forecast data editable? 18. What is the difference between FUSION, COMET & Citrix and do I need to login to each separately? 19. What is the FUSION web site address (URL)? 20. What is the COMET web site address (URL?)