Work Orders are central to managing your business with Assignar, and we've been working hard to improve your experience. You can now more-reliably move, shorten and extend work orders. Assignar will adjust the order tasks, and let you know of any impacts to order tasks and allocations that can't be accommodated.

Bulk Move Orders

You can now move multiple jobs at once, making it easier to delay or bring forward dependent jobs in one step. This is available from the Timeline view across all durations (1 week to 6 months).

To use it:

1. Click Move jobs in the top-right corner. Selectors will appear next to each eligible job (any job in a status that allows the order to move).
2. Select the jobs you want to move, then click Move jobs in the bottom-right corner.
3. In the modal, choose whether to shift the jobs earlier or later, and enter the number of days.
4. Click Move, and you're done.

Individually Move Orders

When you change the start date of a Work Order, Assignar now automatically moves the Order Task dates to match. 

Before committing any change, Assignar will clearly warn you of the impact of your change. You can see this in action here, where we move an order in the Planner:

• We moved the Order forward by 8 days.

• This will move the order, its roles and allocations, forwards by 8 days.
  This order has already started and shifts in the past may have been allocated.
  ⚠️ Important: Any existing timesheets linked to those allocations will be unlinked and converted into loose timesheets. This change may affect reporting and payroll data.

• If the order has not yet started you will just receive an alert confirming the order roles and allocations will move forwards.

  

• You will also received these warnings moving orders backwards:

  

  

   

Changing Order Duration

You can change the Order's duration by changing the end date of the order, or by changing the new Duration field in the Order. In this case:

• If you shorten the order, then tasks and allocations can be deleted from the end of the order. Assignar will provide a clear indication of how many tasks and allocations will change.

• If you extend the order, tasks are not currently extended - no change will be made to any task or allocation.
  
   

• If you extend in the Scheduler Timeline it gives you the option to keep your roles and allocations and apply them to your new dates (it will not apply these to your non working days)

  

Moving And Changing Duration

It's possible to both move an order, and change it's duration at the same time. In this case, the behaviour is similar to what is described above. The important thing to remember is that Assignar will always provide a clear warning before anything is moved or deleted.