Assignment proposal: change the time of a job by dragging it
In the timeline of the Assignment proposal, you can now move a job earlier or later by dragging it sideways, in 5-minute steps, or with the keyboard arrows. Nothing is saved until “Approve proposal”.
Until now, the timeline only let you change the person on a job: to shift a time, you had to open the job's details. You can now do it directly on the timeline.
How it works
- Grab a job and move sideways: the time is locked, the person does not change, and the other rows fade. Move vertically: it is the gesture you already knew, you change the person.
- The block moves step by step: one step is 5 minutes and matches 10 pixels of movement. A bubble shows the new time range in large figures, the difference from the starting time, and the journeys before and after.
- With the keyboard: Tab goes to a job, ← and → shift it by 5 minutes (Shift: 15 minutes), Enter confirms, Esc cancels, Space opens the job.
- Esc during the gesture puts everything back as it was.
What the bubble flags
- Overlap with another job of the same person, or a journey that is too short: the bubble and the block turn red, and the bubble says why. The check is the same as for “Choose someone else”.
- Outside the person's working hours, or before the guests leave or after they arrive: the block is flagged, with a marker on the timeline. It is up to you to decide: nothing blocks you during the gesture.
- Job with a time set in the schedule: the block turns orange as soon as you move away from it.
- A job that has started or finished, a two-person cleaning, a delivery and a round keep their time: a padlock shows it.
After you let go
The time changes in the proposal only: nothing is saved or sent to the cleaner before “Approve proposal”. The block keeps a green outline, its original place stays dotted, and the “Reset to …” button brings it back to the time proposed by the engine, without touching the person. A message at the bottom right also offers “Undo”.
If you leave the page, change day or recalculate with changes that are not approved, the software first asks “Discard the changes?”. For now this gesture is designed for the computer: on a phone, the timeline stays reserved for the computer.
The “decision to make before approving” banner is no longer squashed on a 768-pixel-wide tablet.