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Scheduling

Plan and coordinate your team's work with multiple scheduling views

Scheduling

DrillerDB's scheduling system helps you plan and coordinate your drilling operations with multiple views and real-time updates. Choose the view that works best for your workflow and use drag-and-drop to organize work efficiently.

Quick Start: Build Tomorrow's Schedule

  1. Open Scheduling from the sidebar
  2. Select List View or Calendar View
  3. Add unscheduled projects to the right teams
  4. Drag to reorder by priority and travel efficiency
  5. Save changes and notify crews

Scheduling Views

The scheduling system provides four specialized views, each optimized for different planning tasks:

Calendar View presents your schedule as a familiar month or week calendar with drag-and-drop rescheduling. This view is ideal for visualizing project timelines and quickly understanding when work is scheduled.

Gantt View displays projects as horizontal bars on a timeline, making it easy to see project sequences, dependencies, and resource allocation over extended periods. Use this view for long-term planning and capacity analysis.

List View organizes scheduled work into cards grouped by team, showing detailed project information and allowing drag-and-drop reordering. This view provides the most information at a glance and is best for day-to-day schedule management.

Teams View focuses specifically on team-based scheduling, allowing you to assign entire crews to projects and manage team workloads. This view reflects the collaborative nature of drilling operations where work requires coordinated crews.

Key Features

The scheduling system includes features to streamline your planning workflow:

Drag-and-drop scheduling allows you to reorder, reschedule, and reassign projects intuitively by clicking and dragging items to new positions.

Automatic conflict detection prevents double-booking and scheduling errors by validating changes before saving them.

Cascade scheduling automatically adjusts following projects when you reschedule work, maintaining proper sequencing and preventing gaps or overlaps.

When enabled for your company, live refresh behavior helps connected users see schedule changes sooner. Manual refresh remains the fallback.

GPS integration calculates distances between sequential projects and displays route maps, helping optimize crew travel and fuel costs.

Working hours configuration respects your company's work schedule, automatically skipping weekends and preventing scheduling outside business hours.

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Learn more about specific scheduling features:

  • Calendar View - Month and week calendar with drag-and-drop scheduling
  • Gantt View - Timeline visualization for project planning and dependencies
  • List View - Sortable table of scheduled work with detailed information
  • Teams View - Team-based scheduling and resource allocation
  • Drag and Drop - clear drag-and-drop interface for rescheduling projects
  • Assigning Crews - Assign employees, drillers, and equipment to projects
  • Conflict Detection - Automatic detection and resolution of scheduling conflicts

Getting Started with Scheduling

To begin scheduling projects, navigate to the Scheduling section from the main menu. The system defaults to List View but remembers your preferred view selection.

Add projects to the schedule by selecting them from the project dropdown at the bottom of each team card. The system automatically assigns dates based on estimated hours and the team's current workload.

Reorder projects by dragging them to new positions. The system recalculates dates automatically to maintain proper sequencing and prevent conflicts.

Switch between views using the view buttons in the toolbar. Each view displays the same underlying schedule data in different formats optimized for specific tasks.

Step-by-Step: Weekly Scheduling Workflow

  1. Review unscheduled proposals and work orders
  2. Prioritize jobs by commitment date and business urgency
  3. Assign high-priority jobs to appropriate teams
  4. Reorder within teams to reduce travel and idle time
  5. Resolve detected scheduling conflicts
  6. Save and communicate finalized assignments
  7. Revisit the schedule daily for changes and delays

Mobile Access

Field technicians can view their scheduled work on mobile devices through the DrillerDB mobile web interface. Crews see their upcoming projects in sequence with relevant details like customer information, GPS directions, and estimated hours.

The mobile web interface automatically syncs with office schedule changes, ensuring field crews always have current information. When schedules are updated, mobile users receive notifications about changes affecting their assigned work.

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