In the Crew scheduling and Transport planning tabs of your project, you plan your crew members and vehicles on crew and transport functions. These tabs provide you with an overview of which functions need to be planned, which crew members are available and who is already planned on a function. From the Crew scheduling and Transport planning tabs you can invite crew members for functions and directly send them the planning.

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Overview

Planned functions

In the Crew scheduling tab, you have an overview of all the project's crew functions. In the Transport planning tab, you have an overview of all the project's transport functions. You plan functions on a project in the Crew and transport tab. A function is only displayed in the Crew scheduling or Transport planning tabs when times are connected to the function. All functions with connected times are then displayed in chronological order.

Choosing function groups

By default, you see all the functions planned on your project. In the Crew and transport tab of your project, you can group functions by function groups. In both the Crew scheduling and Transport planning tabs, you can filter on these function groups, so you will only see the functions that belong to the selected function group. You select function groups via the drop-down menu where "All function groups" is selected by default.

Example:

Functions without linked times

Functions not linked to times in the Crew and transport tab will not be displayed in the Crew scheduling and Transport planning tabs. To see a function in one of these tabs, you first need to link times to the function. Functions without times can be planned in the more comprehensive account_circle Crew planner module.

Crew members and vehicle

In the tab Crew scheduling you can see your crew members for function planning. In the tab Transport planning you can see the vehicles for function planning. 

Availability of crew members

When planning your crew on a function you can always keep track of the crew availability. When you select a function, the crew members will be highlighted in different colors to show their availability:

You will find more precise information on the timeline. You can open and close the timeline by clicking on a function group or planned crew member/vehicle and selecting the watch_later Open timeline.

Plan a single crew member and vehicle on functions

1. Go to either the Crew scheduling or Transport planning tab.
2. Click on the function you want to plan a crew member or vehicle on.
3. Double click on a crew member you want to plan on the function.
4. Now the crew member is planned on the function and the function will be displayed as complete.

You can also plan crew members on a function using invitations.

Visible and invisible planning

You can make crew and transport functions visible or invisible to crew members. This is useful when you are still editing the planning, and don't want your crew member(s) to see it yet.

• When a function is visibly planned, the function will be shown in the personal calendar of the crew member.
• When a function is invisibly planned, the function will not be shown in the calendar of the crew member.

Communicating the planning

In the Crew scheduling tab you can communicate the planning to crew members. The crew members planned on a function will receive a personal email with the specifications of the functions they are planned on.

Set the planning for your crew without changing the price

After setting a time schedule on the quotation, you might want to set the planning for your crew (e.g. make sure your crew arrives half an hour before the function) without changing the price for your client. You can do this both for a crew member, for a single function, or for a whole function group.

Note: Setting a different planning period will affect your total costs (the wages for your crew) but not the total price (what you show to your client).

Crew member

1. Go to the Crew scheduling tab.
2. Double-click on the name of the planned crew member.
3. Adjust the times in the Planning period fields.
4. Click  Save

Example:

As you can see in the example below, the times of the function remained the same (so your client will not see any changes) but the technician is now planned half an hour before and after the function.

Single function

1. Go to the Crew and transport tab of the project.
2. Click on a function and select edit Edit
3. Go to the Time schedule section and edit the times.
4. Save

Function group

1. Go to the Crew and transport tab of the project.
2. Double-click on the function group you want to edit.
3. Edit the planning period.
4. Click  Save

Edit the planning and change the price

You can also modify the planning adjusting the price for your client. This can only be done for a function group, not for a single function.

1. Go to the Crew and transport tab of the project.
2. Double-click on the function group you want to edit.
3. Edit the usage period. 
4. Edit the times, click  Apply  and then  Save

Salary rates

Apply a rate

When you add a member to your crew, you can configure a default salary rate.

But when you plan the crew member on a function, you can apply a different rate than the Default rate.

1. In the Crew scheduling tab of your project, double-click on your crew member.
2. Under Crew member rate, select the rate to apply.