Scheduling

Scheduling is a fully integrated resource management and task list that enables coordination, tracking and management of staff and other resources.

Scheduling instantly shows what teams are up to. View, edit and add new tasks, which include meetings, phone calls, appointments, etc. all linked to Jim2 stored information, including jobs, projects, quotes and cardfiles.

The red exclamation mark over the people/person icon indicates that the task has not yet been confirmed by the user.

Scheduling offers multiple ways to see what's going on – by person, by group or by the entire company.

▪Outlook-style calendar views show scheduled tasks by Day, Work Week, Week, Month, Year, Time Line or by Current +7 (the currently selected day plus the next six days).

▪Tasks can be grouped by date, resource or none (no grouping).

▪Tasks can also be viewed by resources: individual, selected individuals, definable groups or all resources. When adding holidays to the Schedule, the ability to choose multiple resources is available.

▪All tasks are colour-coded for quick visual filtering.

▪Unconfirmed appointments and tasks are highlighted with a striped border, and an exclamation mark on the people/person icon.

▪Tasks can be instantly linked to related Jim2 objects including jobs, quotes, purchases, return from customer, return to vendor, debtor, creditor and cardfile.

Task types cannot be edited as they have encoded relationships (eg. job is related to job, etc.). These relationships are limited and fixed with the code base, and also affect the behaviour of the task (eg. editing a job task will lock the job).

▪Saturday and Sunday can be shown as separate columns.

▪Non-working hours will be greyed out.

Note: Working hours are determined by what is set up in Tools > Options > General > Labour. As hours work in whole numbers, f you commence at 8.30am, set the time in Options to 8.29am so the hours will show correctly in the Schedule.

▪Tasks allow for selecting multiple resources, including customers, vendors and prospects.

In addition to the standard pop-up reminder screen, there is also a Scheduled Tasks Reminder indicator. It is located in the lower right hand corner of the status bar, and will slowly flash when there are active reminders.

This pop-up does not need to be dismissed to continue using Jim2. Instead, continue using Jim2 with the reminders in the background (accessible from the Switch Windows icon in the Quick Access toolbar, or by clicking the Reminder indicator in the bottom right status bar).

After the top 3 (which are self explanatory), these options mirror what is on the ribbon in the Accounts tab, except for the last tab, which will Reset to Default, ie. return the Schedule to the original setup.