Schedule work in Bay View
Bay View is the workshop floor as a board. It lives inside the dashboard, not on a separate page, so it shares the same live updates and the selected date with the rest of your tabs.
What you are looking at
Each bay is a lane. Cards are the job cards waiting for or assigned to that bay. Unassigned work sits in its own rail so the lead can see what still needs a home.
Bay View has two modes for the selected day:
- Kanban sequences work as a queue. Position means "do this next".
- Schedule places work by time of day, like a calendar lane.
You can switch the board between vertical columns and horizontal rows with the Columns/Rows toggle. The view you choose stays with you when you swap modes.
Bay View follows the day, not a backlog
Bay View shows what is planned against the day you have selected. A normal booking from an earlier day does not follow you into future days just because it is still booked in. Work that is genuinely underway can still appear across dates because it is physically in the shop.
Assign a job to a bay and technician
- Open Bay View and pick the day you want to plan with the date stepper.
- Drag a card from the unassigned rail onto the bay lane that suits the work.
- Set the bay's technician from the name selector on the lane. This is the default technician for that bay.
- Adjust the card's allocated hours inline if the guide time needs to change.
When a vehicle has not arrived yet, its card shows a quiet Not arrived chip that reveals an Arrive? action when you hover or focus it. Arriving a vehicle here follows the same arrival flow as the rest of the dashboard.
Drag to sequence the day
How a drag behaves depends on the mode:
- In Kanban, dropping or reordering a card re-queues that bay. Arrived vehicles always stay ahead of vehicles that have not arrived, so you can reorder waiting cars among themselves but never above a car that is on site.
- In Schedule, dropping a card places it at that time. Long jobs queue around work that is already booked at that time rather than sitting underneath it.
In Schedule mode each bay lane has a "Close gaps" control that packs that bay's queued work nose to tail. Work already underway and any fixed appointments stay put; only planned cards move.
Project work in the bay
Long-running Project repair orders that are not yet assigned to a bay wait in Project Parking at the edge of the unassigned rail. Drag a Project job card into a bay to put it on the floor for the day. You can also assign technicians and a task focus to a Project appointment.
A Project appointment is a planning prompt for the day. It does not record labour, work carried out, or invoices. Those still come from the job card and labour flows as usual.