Do you need to see which jobs your employees and equipment are scheduled to be at today? Would you like to see this information projected on a wall in your office or a TV in your scheduling room without using up a license that your dispatcher cannot spare? If you have the latest version of Dispatcher, you can do this with a feature that won’t cost you money, and you can implement it today. If you don’t have the latest version of Dispatcher, now is a good time to update your system and take advantage of new features.

Dispatcher was built to give your schedulers clarity and increase their productivity. With this new dispatcher display, you can share where your resources are on a single magnet board with a computer that has Dispatcher installed, and without using up a license. The Dispatcher will project one magnet board, of your choosing, through a view on a web browser. This view will refresh every 5 minutes by default and can be modified to as frequently as one-minute refresh times.

Here is an example of a magnet board in this view:

Fleet support created a help document for this setup, but if you ever need help with either the update or the implementation of this feature, feel free to call fleet support at 855-231-7877. They will take care of you.

If you are using this feature right now, or plan on making use of it, let us know in the comments. This was a customer-requested feature that we were able to make good on, and we would love to hear and see how you are using it. If you have photos, send them to me at Daniel@hcss.com.