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# Event Type

### Overview

One can use Events in TilliT to trigger activities. There are 5 categories of Events:

* Equipment
* Order
* Activity
* Shift
* Custom

Apart from Custom, all these events come pre-configured in TilliT for you to use as you see fit.

### Creating a new **Event Type**

Navigation: **Settings > Configuration > Event Type > Create**

You will be presented with a pop-up.

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### **Fields**

| Name              | Description                                             |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name \***       | name of the event.                                      |
| **Closing Event** | select an event that, when started, closes this event.  |
| **Subtitle**      | a description of the event                              |
| **Priority \***   | the numerical priority of the event                     |
| **Display Order** | the order in which the event is shown throughout the UI |
| **System Event**  | tie your custom event to a TilliT system event.         |

Click the ***Save and close*** button to finalise.

{% hint style="info" %}
This event is now available as a trigger for activities and closing events.
{% endhint %}

## Downtime Types

TilliT includes the following built-in downtime types that can be used when raising equipment events:

| Downtime Type   | Description                                                                     |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **UNPLANNED**   | Unplanned equipment downtime not attributable to a specific cause.              |
| **BREAKDOWN**   | Equipment breakdown events, tracked separately from general unplanned downtime. |
| **PLANNED**     | Scheduled downtime such as maintenance windows.                                 |
| **UNAVAILABLE** | Periods where the asset is not available, such as shift breaks.                 |

BREAKDOWN is a distinct downtime type that allows breakdown events to be reported and analysed separately from UNPLANNED downtime.