The Dispatch Board is a single screen designed to present that snapshot of your company's business for a single day. It displays all of your company’s teams along with each team’s employees and jobs for a specific day. The dispatch board allows you to easily see what is scheduled to take place for the current day, enabling you to manage your teams, employees, and jobs by switching job assignments, determining employee availability, etc.
Current Display
Active Employee Assignments
Unavailable Employees
Unassigned Jobs
Since the Dispatch Board is designed to be a centralized location where users can view and manage team assignments for a given day, you can change assignments and availability by dragging-and-dropping jobs and employees from team to team as well as to and from the windows located on the left side of the Dispatch Board. To facilitate this, the Dispatch Board is divided into two sections:
The Dispatch Board’s main window displays individual team windows for every team in the company.
A series of windows and fields on the left side of the screen, including the Active Employee Assignments, Unavailable Employees, and the Unassigned Jobs windows.
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There are three possible drop-down lists in this section:
Date. Displays the date currently displayed in the Dispatch Board. Select a different date from the calendar box to display a new date.
Profiles. If you are using Company Profiles, you can select the profile you want to display from the drop-down list.
View. Select the view you want to display. See the Custom Dispatch Board Views section for details.
The Active Employee Assignments list box displays all active employees, along with information about those employees:
T. Displays the number of teams to which the employee belongs
J. Displays the number of jobs to which they are assigned.
H/WK. Hours worked this week.
H/PP. Hours worked this pay period.
The H/WK and H/PP columns will only be displayed if they are turned on in the Dispatch Board Options dialog box. For details, see the Defining Dispatch Board Options section.
The Unavailable Employees list box displays all employees who are not able to work during the selected day. Unavailability is based upon an employee’s work hours and work hour overrides. (See the Employee Work Hours section for more.)
The Unassigned Jobs window displays all jobs that have not yet been assigned to a team and/or an employee. To assign an unassigned job to a team, drag-and-drop the job into a team window’s Jobs folder.
