A Dispatcher is notified of a local power outage.

a Map Polygon to select affected appointments is the appropriate Field Service design. The outage is geographic, so drawing a polygon around the affected area lets the dispatcher identify appointments inside the boundary and perform bulk scheduling actions such as reschedule.

Salesforce Field Service treats the Service Appointment as the primary unit of scheduling. Scheduling Policies combine Work Rules, which determine whether a resource or time slot is valid, with Service Objectives, which score valid alternatives against business priorities. The selected configuration therefore has to operate at the scheduling layer rather than merely changing descriptive fields on the parent Work Order.

The alternatives address different parts of the Field Service model. A new Scheduling Policy does not identify the impacted records, notifications do not actually change the schedule, and a report adds extra steps without the same direct geographic interaction.

This approach keeps the implementation aligned with the standard Field Service data model and avoids unnecessary customization. Study Guide reference: Managing Scheduling and Optimization — Dispatcher Console map; polygons; bulk rescheduling.