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The Activities subfolder Reporting activities is optional, but highly recommended. You can either link an activity to a project function or add it as a free text. In the Activities subfolder of the module, you find an overview of all the activities registered. Here you can easily compare each project function and the corresponding registered hours for that function. You can filter the activities, add different columns and group the activities by column to have a more focused overview.
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f you use extra input fields, you can export these too. In a module, select the items that you want to export. In the blue bar, select More options more_vert button and choose "Export selection". When choosing a column to add, you will find your extra input fields under "Extra".
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The headers (Equipment) Serial numbers, (Contacts) Contact person, (Crew members) Rates, and (Time registration) Activities are in the dropdown, because they all have a bit of the same information. Don't forget the styling of course ;)
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Choose this option to communicate the complete planning of every member and vehicle. Create a callsheet for a project. Click email on the top right of the page. Select the recipients and add a message. Click Send email
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Print schedules for each crew member You can also generate a document with the personal schedule and send it to your crew members. You can edit the document template to display more information about the planning. After generating a schedule, you can download it as a .pdf or Word file, send it as an email, and attach it to a crew member. Go to the account_circle Crew planner module Click on the email button on the top bar. Click on 'To print' in the top left corner. Set a period. Select crew members. Choose a template. Click on 'To print' in the bottom right corner. Download the schedule as a PDF or Word file, or send it via email. Choose this option if you want to add more information to the individual schedule. Edit the template to choose the information you want to communicate. Click 'Save slip by item' to attach the document to the right crew member in the 'Crew members' module. This way, you can quickly check when you created the last document for each crew member and download it again anytime.
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Go to the account_circle Crew planner module or the Crew scheduling tab in a project. Click on the mail_outline Send planning button on the top bar. Select a period. Select the projects. Select crew members (if there has been a change since the last time you communicated the planning, the crew members affected by the change will have an orange button behind them). Optional: check the e-mails by clicking on "preview" on a crew member. Click Send in the bottom right corner. Optional: Add a custom email text. Click Send
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If your crew members regularly check the event My schedule module, you don't have to manually send the planning. On the event My schedule module each user can click on a project to see up-to-date information and add notes/tasks.
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Crew member Go to the Crew scheduling tab. Double-click on the name of the planned crew member. Adjust the times in the Planning period fields. Click Save 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 Go to the Crew and transport tab of the project. Click on a function and select edit Edit Go to the Time schedule section and edit the times. Save If you already have a crew member planned on this function, you now have three options: Apply the new planning period to all planned crew and transport - the planning period for crew members and vehicles will change. Keep the planning period of all planned crew and transport - the planning period for crew members and vehicles will stay the same. Remove all planned crew and transport - the vehicles and crew members will no longer be planned on this function. Click Confirm to complete the changes. You can now communicate the updated planning period to your crew. Function group Go to the Crew and transport tab of the project. Double-click on the function group you want to edit. Edit the planning period. Click Save If you already have crew members planned on this function group, you have four options about the planning (explained in the previous section, except for the last option): Keep planning period Edit planning period Delete crew members Make a choice per function - choose what you would like to do with the times per function in the function group. Click Confirm to complete the changes. You can now communicate the updated planning period to your crew. 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. Go to the Crew and transport tab of the project. Double-click on the function group you want to edit. Edit the usage period. Edit the times, click Apply and then Save If you already have crew members planned on this function group, you have three options about the planning (explained in the previous section): Keep planning period Edit planning period Delete crew members Make a choice per function Click Save to complete the changes. You can now communicate the updated planning period to your crew.
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Go to either the Crew scheduling or Transport planning tab. Click on the function you want to plan a crew member or vehicle on. Double click on a crew member you want to plan on the function. Now the crew member is planned on the function and the function will be displayed as complete. Follow the steps below to plan multiple crew members or vehicles on a function. Go to either the Crew scheduling or Transport planning tab. Click on the function you want to plan crew members or vehicles on. Select all crew members or vehicles you want to plan on the function by checking their checkboxes. Click on "Add" at the top of the table to plan the selected crew members or vehicles on the function.
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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 the 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.
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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.
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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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"function" is a task that needs to be performed. A function can be connected to the times in your "Time schedule", have its own time, or have a duration if you don't want to specify the exact times. You can add a one-time function for a single project or create a "default function" you can use for every future project. Functions can be planned in "function groups". Function groups can as well be connected to your "Time schedule", have their own time, or have a duration. Adding functions to groups helps you save time. First, the functions will take the times of the group, so you won't have to add a time for each function. Second, if you edit your time schedule you can automatically edit all the functions in the group connected to the time schedule.
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Wrong email address This is the most common reason. Please check the email address and try again. Bounced by receiving server due to spam This may be because the address of youraccount@rentmanclient.com is marked as a spam address. Please contact us if this is the case. A short-term solution is to send the email from your own server. Bounced by sending server because address is on a blacklist Our email client keeps a blacklist of email addresses, which were marked because of various reasons. The email address may have been offline for a short period of time in the past, or the inbox was full. Please contact us if this happens, to let us remove this email address from the blacklist.
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