The structure problem
A commercial property is rarely one place. A plaza has a dozen tenant units. A condo tower has a parking level, a chute room, a garbage room and hundreds of suites. A restaurant group has the same brand at eight addresses with eight different layouts and eight different problem histories.
When the software can only represent an address, everything below that level becomes free text. Which unit had activity, which building the interior stations sit in, which tenant space keeps recurring — none of it can be queried later, because none of it was ever a field.
- Properties, buildings, units and unit groups model the site the way the technician walks it.
- Service context and device history stay attached to the specific place they belong to.
- Findings at unit level survive as data, not as a sentence in a note field.