Units and rooms of a building

Units (flats) and their rooms belong to the building and are managed in the Units & rooms section of the building page. Each room has a number of beds; residents are housed in rooms from the Housing board. A unit can receive residents only when it is active and covered by an active contract.

Open the building and scroll to Units & rooms.

What’s on this screen

N units. Units belong to the building; contracts cover them from their own page.
Generate layout: adds many units at once. See Generate a building layout.
Add unit: adds one unit with its rooms.
One card per unit: Unit N, the residents’ gender, Floor N · X of Y beds occupied and Contract (the contract that covers it). Tags show Inactive and No active contract when they apply. The buttons are Add room, Edit and Delete.
Under each unit, its rooms: Room no., Beds and Occupied, with Open room, Edit and Delete. Click a room to open the room page.

Unit fields

Unit no. (required): a whole number, unique in the building.
Floor (required): Ground or a floor number, up to the building’s number of floors (The building has N floors.).
Residents (required): Male or Female.
Status: Active or Inactive. An inactive unit cannot receive residents.
Rooms to create (new unit only): Number of rooms and Beds per room, from 1 to 50.
Appliances: the counts of each appliance in the unit (0 to 99), copied from the building’s defaults.

Room fields

Room no. (required): unique in the unit.
Beds (required): 1 to 50. It cannot be fewer than the residents living in the room now or booked later.

How to add a unit

Click Add unit.
Fill in the fields and click Save unit. The unit is created with its rooms and beds.

To add a single room to an existing unit, click Add room on the unit, fill in Room no. and Beds and click Save room.

How to delete a unit or a room

Click the bin icon of the unit or the room.
Confirm with Delete. Deleting a unit deletes its rooms, and contracts stop covering it.

Required permission

Buildings, units & rooms › Edit.