Kanban basics

How the workflow board reads — columns are statuses, cards are jobcards, drag to change status

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The workflow board at /workflow is your live view of the workshop. Each column is a jobcard status; each card is a jobcard sitting in that status.

The basic operations

ActionHow
Move a cardDrag it from one column to another
Open a cardClick it — opens the jobcard detail page
Filter the boardUse the search bar at the top — by reference, plate, or customer
Switch garagesSidebar — each garage has its own board

What's on a card

  • Vehicle registration, make, and model
  • Customer name
  • Jobcard reference
  • Jobcard title
  • Assigned technician (if any)
  • Appointment date and time (if any)

Drag = change status

Dragging a card is exactly the same as changing the status from the jobcard's status dropdown. Both call the same API and the move is recorded in the activity log.

Estimates on the board

Estimates have their own grey Estimate column on the far left of the board (shown if you can view estimates), as well as a separate list at /estimates. Drag an estimate out of that column into a status column to promote it to a jobcard in that status; drag a jobcard back into the Estimate column and Pistonlog asks you to confirm before converting it.

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