Mechanic Available Hours (supplement to Workshop Opening Hours)
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Cycle-R Admin
We have 3 main mechanics:
1/ works 6am to 2pm Mon-Fri
2/ works 10:30am to 4:30pm Tues-Sat
3/ is a Trustee and available on an ad-hoc basis.
We also have a number of volunteer mechanics who work variable hours.
In order to assign a job to a mechanic, we need to see who is available. Our Workshop opening hours are currently 6am-4.30pm Mon-Fri and 10:30am to 4:30pm Sat. These are different to our shop opening times of 9:30am to 4:30pm Mon-Sat.
We need to mark against each mechanic what are their normal working hours and days. This needs to incorporate the fact that the shop is closed on Sundays and we also shut down between Christmas and New Year.
Over and above that we need to mark mechanics as unavailable when they have booked holiday, days off, medical appointments, etc., which can use the existing features.
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RM Cycles Team
this is a VERY important feature, all but one if our mechancis work part time
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Nathan
Agreed, the ability to set work hours specific to each mechanic would be very useful, we used this in our last system and worked very well to accurately book jobs in. Also the ability to block out time every day for lunch hours would be helpful.
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Matt Whitt
It would be great to be able to create a colleague workshop schedule/rota I.e. Week 'A' (Set hours and days) and a week B.
Currently all of our workshop colleagues (even part-time) work the same set hours and days weekly.
Would be a great addition to an already excellent POS
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RM Cycles Team
Yes please! We have 5 mechanics, none of them work the same days/hours as each other. So like setting the overall workshop hours we need the ability to set the working days/hours for each mechanic
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Ali B
Please look at this soon, it will greatly improve the functionality.
Andy Shrimpton
Totally agree. The module is inflexible in this respect and assumes the same staff resources each day without constant re-editing. We have three full timers on site, one other who works sometimes at another site and three more part timers. Hours worked are not consistent throughout the team throughout the day or over the week such that every day we have a different number of mechanics. The system as it is currently configured does not allow us to plan for this.
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Steve McCulley
This functionality would also allow us to use the Workshop module to diarise lunch/tea breaks, staff rides etc as well, which would be very useful.
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Paul
this is probably a more in depth version for each mechanic of my suggestion here, https://citruslime.canny.io/workshop-module/p/workshop-opening-hours, so i am happy to join my suggestion and move the votes to this.