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Day Timeline

The Day Timeline is a read-only "who's working when" view for a single location on a single day. It's designed for opening supervisors, floor leads, and wall-mounted operations displays — one glance and you know who's on, when their shift starts and ends, and which department they're staffing.

Accessing the Timeline​

There are two ways to get to the timeline:

  • From the Roster window detail page: click the Today at <location> button in the toolbar. This jumps straight to today's timeline for that window's location.
  • By URL: navigate to /<locale>/roster/timeline?locationId=<id>&date=<YYYY-MM-DD>. The date parameter defaults to today if omitted.

Access is restricted to Supervisor, Manager, and Company Admin roles.

What the Timeline Shows​

  • A horizontal time axis spanning 06:00–22:00 by default. If any shift falls outside that window on the displayed date, the axis expands to the nearest hour to cover it.
  • One row per employee who has a shift on the displayed date — employees with no shifts do not appear.
  • Rows are grouped by department, with alphabetical department ordering. Shifts with no department go into an Unassigned group that renders last.
  • Within a department, employees are sorted by their earliest shift start, so the morning openers appear at the top.
  • Each shift renders as a bar labelled with the start/end time and the employee's name (e.g. 08:00–16:00 Matti V.). Hover over a bar to see the full label.

The view is read-only. Clicking a bar does nothing in v1 — to edit a shift, open the roster window for that week.

The page header has a date picker, plus prev-day and next-day buttons. Changing the date updates the URL so you can share a specific day's timeline.

Known Limitations​

  • A shift that started the previous day and ends today (e.g. a 22:00 → 02:00 closing shift) will not appear on today's timeline in v1. It shows up on yesterday's timeline, clamped at midnight with a continuation chevron.
  • The timeline does not show actual clock-in/out status — only planned shift times. For actual-vs-planned comparisons, use the Timesheets view.