Sites

You can use the Site module to specify location of an entity as per the time zone. An entity can belong to one site. All the child entities of that entity will also belong to that site.

The site information is used while saving information about an event that happened on an entity. The system stores the date and time in UTC and in the local time for the entity.

When the MES middleware service starts a shift, the system records the start time of the shift in UTC and in the local time of the entity (not in the local time of the background process). The site provides the time zone information of the entity and this information is used to record the correct local time for the entity in the database.

When you open the Site module, a list of all the existing sites is shown in the Site Definition workspace tab.

By default, the Site module is grouped under the Master Data Config group in the Navigation Bar. For more information on groups and modules, see Groups and modules.