This article will guide you on the technical specifications of the Roster Dashboard to give you a more detailed understanding of its various elements.
Table of contents
General information
The Roster Dashboard shows published personnel rostered shifts of the following Duty Categories:
Duty
Standby
Aircraft
Viewing windows
The Roster Dashboard displays shifts based on a window of time to closely follow shifts around the clock. To learn more about how this works, visit Roster Dashboard Viewing Windows.
Dashboard elements
With enough published roster data, you will have a Roster Dashboard that looks something like the below. As an overview, there are seven distinct elements that make up the dashboard.
Current date and time
Auto-refresh 30-second countdown timer (clickable for manual refresh)
Base
Rosterable Department (defined in Setup > Operations > Rostering Setup)
Finished shift (denoted with a check mark on the top-right of a shift block, when Shift End time has surpassed)
Active shift (currently counting down; shows time before Shift End)
Pending shift (Shift Start time is in the future)
Shift block elements
Zooming in to a shift, this is what it can display:
Duty Period Shift Code and Shift Start time (hover for more details)
Personnel name
First available contact number (mobile number shown)
The order of precedence is mobile first, then alternative, then phone number
No element is visible if neither contact number fields are populated on the personnel profile
Roster Personnel Note
See Roster Personnel Notes in the Roster Dashboard for more details
Shift Note (hover for more details)
Related: Shift Notes in the Roster Dashboard
Active shift countdown timer (time until Shift End; hover for more details)
The countdown timer is only visible if the current time is on or within the shift’s Start Time
A check mark is visible instead if the current time has surpassed the shift’s End Time
No element is visible in this location if neither of the above conditions are met (i.e., the shift’s Start Time is in the future)
Phone number (if present on personnel profile; hover for more details)
Alternative number (if present on personnel; hover for more details)
Related: Roster Dashboard Custom Fields
Shift countdown timers
For active shifts, a countdown timer appears on the top-right corner of the containing element, showing the time left before the shift ends.
The timer also displays a colour based on pre-defined thresholds:
OK (green)
WARNING (yellow)
DANGER (red)
Each threshold has a value designated to it, which acts as a boundary when paired with adjacent thresholds. Currently, these values are not customisable, and are measured in hours.
OK - 10 hours
WARNING - 6 hours
DANGER - 3 hours
For example, the shift for Zenith Rath above has a shift duration of 1800-2330. Based on the current time the dashboard was viewed at, it calculated 5 hours 5 minutes left before the end of the shift.
Given the threshold, this time falls between WARNING and DANGER, thus displaying a yellow background.
Once an active shift is finished, the countdown timer will be replaced with a check mark:
The order of shifts
For each base and department, the shifts are ordered according to:
Shifts before the current day
With a start time, earliest shift first
Without a start time, ordered instead by personnel name
Shifts on the current day
With a start time, earliest shift first
Without a start time, ordered instead by personnel name
Shifts following the current day
With a start time, earliest shift first
Without a start time, ordered instead by personnel name
These sets of shifts are separated by a dotted line. Shifts before and after the current day have a darker grey background colour to maintain focus on the current day.
