How is this different from the dispatch board?
The dispatch board is built for today — allocating and reallocating work in the moment. The team calendar is for the week or fortnight ahead, where the question is capacity rather than urgency.
Jobs & Scheduling
One column per engineer, and a column for the unassigned
A shared diary hides the thing you most need to see: who has nothing on. Gaffer's team view puts each engineer in their own column with unassigned work beside them, so you can drag a job onto the person with the gap.
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How the team calendar works in Gaffer
A column per person, so capacity is visible rather than inferred.
Unassigned is a column
Work waiting to be allocated sits next to the team rather than in a separate list, so scheduling is one motion instead of two screens.
Drag and drop
Move a job between engineers or days by dragging it, and the assignment and schedule update together.
Capacity at a glance
Side-by-side columns make an overloaded engineer and an empty one obvious, which a merged diary never does.
What you get
The team calendar sits with your dispatch board, auto-scheduler and route planning in one platform.
- One column per engineer across the selected period
- Dedicated column for unassigned work
- Drag and drop to assign and reschedule
- Works alongside the dispatch board for same-day allocation
- Recurring appointments shown in the team view
- Complements the auto-scheduler's diary suggestions
- Available as a view within the main calendar
Common questions about team calendar
Can I see holiday and leave in it?
Approved leave sits on the same person records the calendar works from, so an engineer who is off is not presented as available capacity.
Does the auto-scheduler use this?
The auto-scheduler suggests diary slots based on availability and geography. The team view is where you see and adjust the result, so the two work together rather than being alternatives.
Does it sync to Google or Outlook?
Yes. Gaffer's calendar sync pushes job appointments to Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 two-way, so engineers see work in whichever calendar they already live in.
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