Introduction

This article will show you how to manage and create Plans & Locations in SureTrend Cloud. Locations are where swabbing tests are performed. Plans are a set of locations for a given area.  After setting your plans and locations up in SureTrend Cloud  your changes will update Ensure Touch when you sync.

Creating a Location

1. Sign into SureTrend Cloud.
2. Navigate to the Sites tab, and select the site you’d like to create a location for.
3. Select Locations
   
4. Select + to add a new location.
   
5. Enter the location information and save.
   
6. Your new location will now show on your instrument after a successful sync.

Creating a Plan

1. Sign into SureTrend Cloud.
2. Navigate to the Sites tab, and select the site you’d like to create a plan for.
3. Select the Plans tab.
   
4. Select +, and enter a plan name.
   
5. To add locations to a plan select the check box next to the Available Locations.
   
6. Select next to your newly created plan to edit the plans settings.Orange:
   
   Red: The name of the plan.
   Blue: If you want each location randomly chosen to only be chosen once.
   Purple: Make the plan globally available to all instruments on that site.
   Green: The minimum amount of locations to be tested before the plan can be completed.
   Orange: The locations on a plan is random. For example if you have 5 tests with a quota of 3, a random selection of 3 tests will be selected from the 5 tests.

Excluding Plans and Locations from an Instrument

1. Navigate to the plan or location you would like to exclude from the selected instrument, and check the Exclude box.
   
2. Perform a sync on the selected instrument.
3. The plan and/or location is now excluded from this instrument.