FAQ # 01 - How Cubicles should be Numbered:

 

 

There have been many conversations about how the cubicles should be numbered, and after trying to implement that standard I went back to our old projects in which we had cubicles, and also reviewed standards on the web.

 I’m attaching two images.  The first is just an example of what one of the new drawing interfaces looks like on the web.  This UI does not require a plugin.  The user can simply select a drawing from the list to view it – and then can add query information (pre defined highlights, labeling schemes, etc).  This is different from our traditional interface in which the user must specify a query in order for the system to then locate the appropriate drawing.  That style of interface is still available, and is useful for queries like “Where does John Smith sit?” – where the user doesn’t know ahead of time which floorplan to pull up.

In any case, that image is just for reference.  The important image is the “Numbering” one.  This is the standard that we have used in the past, and which is similar to the commonly agreed upon standard.

 The usual standard is to number cubicles with the parent room + either a letter or number:

 100-A, 100-B, 100-C

Or

100-1, 100-2, etc

There were two problems with that.  First of all, it doesn’t give you any indication that the space is actually a cubicle or other modular area.  Secondly, and more importantly, it becomes confusing when the parent room already has a letter:

 100A-A, 100A-B

 Our solution is to give it an “M” to specify modular.

 100A-M1, 100A-M2

 

If you would still prefer all of the cubicles on the floor to simply be numbered clockwise, we can still do that.  In that case, the numbering will generally begin at the bottom center of the drawing, and will continue clockwise.  In that case, the cubicle 102-M1 might instead be 1-001 or M1-001 or 1M-001, depending upon exactly how you’d like to have it set up.