The Visual Assignment Scheduler provides a powerful tool for managing the diary activities of employees, organising job schedules and visually assigning employees to jobs.

With the Visual Assignment Scheduler, you can view a graphical display of any technician or group of technicians in a convenient daily, weekly or employee calendar view. You can even print out a selected schedule at any time.

The Visual Assignment Scheduler can be accessed by pressing ALT-F10 anywhere within TSM (or selecting Visual Scheduler from the TSM Actions Menu or Taskbar.

The Visual Assignment Scheduler screen comprises the following sections:

Press the navigate buttons to quickly change the calendar dates displayed.

Move the calendar to the previous day / week

The currently selected date. Double click on the date to choose today’s date.

Move the calendar to the next day / week

Choose the view type you would like from the menu

Select on the view button to view the assignment attached to the selected job

Use this button to show / hide the right side options. This gives you more real estate to work with when you want to manipulate assignments

Redraw the calendar display to display updated assignments.

Assign an employee to the selected assignment

Unassign the employee from the selected assignment

Delete the selected assignment

Print the assignment calendar

Exit from the Assignments screen