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The schedule

The schedule is the grid: one row per person, one column per day, Saturday through Friday. It is what you see first after signing in, and it is where almost everything happens.

The schedule grid for one week, with several people's shifts filled in

Reading the grid

A salmon-coloured cell is Off. A cell in some other colour is one you or OnTrack painted on purpose, and that choice always wins. A plain yellow cell means this day is different from the same weekday last week - it is not a colour anyone chose, just a flag for what changed, which is why the legend under the grid only shows up when something is actually yellow. A greyed-out row below the main list, like Drew's here, is someone scheduled elsewhere in the hotel: you cannot edit it, but you can see it, so you don't double-book them against a shift they already have.

A director or manager - anyone marked salaried - doesn't work a fixed shift, so their row shows a start-time marker like “8AM” instead of a block of hours.

Editing a cell

Click any cell on the current week or later to open a menu: pick one of the named shifts you set up in Settings, pick a start-time marker if the row is salaried, type your own text such as “7a-5p”, choose a label like Off, copy whatever is in the cell to its left, or clear it. Nothing reaches OnTrack until you press “Send this week to OnTrack” below the grid - everything up to that point is a local draft. Last week and earlier are read-only; ChuckTrack's rule, not OnTrack's.

The week bar and the actions below it

Previous, This week and Next move between weeks. Print/Share opens the export menu - see Printing, sharing and the API. Refresh re-reads the week from OnTrack, in case something changed there. Copy last week is a one-click way to put last week's shape onto this one as a draft.

Below the grid, for the current week and later: Send this week to OnTrack commits your draft; Copy a week in pulls the shape of any date, or a banked week, onto this one; Bank this week saves the current shape under a name so it can be dropped onto any week later, with no date attached; Publish to staff makes the week visible to employees, with mailing everyone a separate tick box, because a sent email can't be unsent.

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