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title: "Labels for Equipment"
url: "https://help.ontraccr.com/en/article/labels-for-equipment"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-06-08T19:17:57.971Z"
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# Labels for Equipment

## **🏷️ Labels for Equipment**  
 

## 📘 **Overview**

Labels in Ontraccr provide a way to **add flexible, searchable tags** to equipment beyond their assigned type. Labels can be used to add additional context, support filtering, and make your equipment list easier to navigate.

Unlike types (which are structured categories), **labels are free-form tags** and can be applied in combination with any type.

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## **🔖 What Are Equipment Labels?**

Labels allow you to:

-   Group equipment with shared characteristics
-   Add a second layer of classification within types
-   Filter and search your equipment list more effectively

### 🔁 Example Use Case:

You have a type called `Customer Equipment`. That group may include:

-   Pickups
-   Trenchers
-   Conveyors
-   Rollers

Rather than creating a separate type for each variation, you can:

-   Keep the type as `Customer Equipment`
-   Apply **labels** like `Trencher`, `Conveyor`, or `Roller`

This approach gives you a clean type hierarchy while still enabling detailed filtering.

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## **🧭 How to Add Labels**

Labels are applied when **creating** or **editing** an equipment profile.

1.  Go to the Equipment Page
2.  Click **Add** (or Edit an existing item)
3.  Scroll to the **Labels** section
4.  Type a label or select from previously used ones
5.  Submit to save

🎯 You can apply multiple labels to the same equipment.

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## **🔍 Filtering by Labels**

On the Equipment Page:

1.  Click the **Filter icon**
2.  Use the **Labels filter** to:
    -   Show only equipment with specific labels
    -   Combine label filters with status, type, or project

This is helpful for:

-   Viewing all equipment tagged as `Hydraulic`
-   Auditing all assets labeled `High Risk`
-   Isolating `Customer Equipment` labeled as `Trencher` + `Needs Repair`

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## **✨ Benefits of Using Labels**

-   Highly flexible
-   Stackable (multiple labels per item)
-   Enables granular filtering without complicating the type structure
-   Helps build customized equipment reports

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