Create an MDT service for a job

In short. Jobs kept in the "Other" service share everything: the mechanic reads the taxi driver's reports. A created service walls a job off: its reports, fleet and employees are only visible to its members.

Create a service #

1. MDT → Settings → + New service.
2. Fill in:
   • the name (e.g. "Mechanic garage", 40 characters at most);
   • the colour;
   • the service type: Other trade for a mechanic or a taxi, Dealership for a service that sells vehicles. The type grants no rights.
3. Create. The service key, which appears in the /mdt/… address, is derived from the name and never changes.
4. On its card, + Add a job to put the job in it, then tick its permissions: see Configure the MDT.

What the service shows #

A service only shows the sections opened by the permissions of its jobs and ranks: View citizen files, Look up a plate / a vehicle, Read reports, View the service fleet, View employees, etc. A job without permissions opens nothing.

Prepare the game database for reports #

The first time, reports of created services require widening a column in the game database. Agora never changes your database structure without your consent.

1. Under the title of MDT → Settings, click Open the game database preparation (the link stays visible until it is done; the message that replaces a new service's reports points there too). The page is called MDT departments.
2. In the Reports of created departments: prepare the game database block, read what the button does (a single command, no report lost).
3. Tick the confirmation, then Widen the column.

Agora's MySQL account needs the ALTER right. Take a backup of the game database first.

Until this is done, the service works (citizens, fleet, employees) except its reports.

Move old reports out of "Other" #

Reports written before the service was created stay in Other. On the "Other" service card, Manage → Split this service's reports… (the tool only shows if it still has reports). On the MDT departments page, Move “Other” reports block:

1. Tick the authors whose reports should move (a report only keeps its author's RP name, not their job).
2. Pick the target service (a created service that has the Reports section).
3. Move their reports.

Full details and error messages: Move the “Other” reports to a department.

Delete a service #

Manage → Delete service, with the confirmation box. Only when no job is attached to it and no report or vehicle is stored in it. 30 services at most.

Give management to a role #

A forum role can receive the Manage an MDT department right (Administration → Roles): it then manages employees and leave, like staff. Access to the service itself always comes from the in-game job.