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Maintenance journal

How to set up maintenance journals in Edmund, assign them global, by project or by tag, add records Edmund can search and cite, and view a project's journals.

Expert Last reviewed July 2026

A maintenance journal (deník údržby) is an official log of how a machine has run and been repaired. Each record you add becomes knowledge Edmund can search and cite when someone asks about that machine, so a clear write-up of a past repair is often the fastest answer to the next breakdown — see how answers link back to their sources.

Journals are set up once at the organization level, then assigned to the projects that should use them. A project can have one journal, several, or none.

Set up a journal

Tip

Setting up journals lives in Organization settings, so these steps are for administrators. If you’re an Uživatel Expert, skip to Add a record below — you add records to journals an administrator has already set up. Users and readers can open and read journals, but only Experts and administrators manage records.

  1. In Organization settings, open Maintenance journals (Deníky údržby). This lists the journals you already have; you can search, or filter by project and by source.

  2. Click Add journal (Přidat deník), give it a Name (Název) and an optional Description (Popis), then choose Next (Další).

  3. Choose how it’s assigned — Global (every project in the organization), specific projects, or by tag — then save.

Tip

Assigning by tag is available when your organization uses tags. Global is the quickest way to make one journal available to every project at once.

Add a record

Open a journal — from Maintenance journals (Deníky údržby), or from a project’s Project journals (Projektové deníky) — and choose Add entry (Přidat záznam).

  1. Give the record a short Title (Název) that names the symptom or the machine area.

  2. Set the Event date (Datum události) — when the problem happened, not when you write it up.

  3. Fill in the Description (Popis — what was observed) and the Solution (Řešení — what fixed it).

  4. Attach a file if you have one — a photo of the failed part or panel makes the record far easier to recognize later than words alone. Then Save (Uložit) the record.

Adding a journal record: title, event date, description, solution and a file.
Tip

Write the Name and Description the way a colleague would describe the fault when it recurs, using the words they’d actually search for. The closer a record is to how the problem is reported, the more reliably Edmund surfaces it.

Inside a journal you can search and filter the existing records, and keep adding new ones as work is done.

Inside a journal: the records you can search, filter, and keep adding to.

View a project’s journals

From inside a project, open Project journals (Projektové deníky) in the left bar to see the journals assigned to that project. You can add and work with records there exactly as above.