[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":163},["ShallowReactive",2],{"changelog-\u002Fchangelog\u002Fscheduling-with-your-day-in-view":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":143,"description":144,"emailSummary":145,"extension":146,"highlights":147,"image":153,"imageWidth":154,"meta":155,"navigation":156,"path":157,"seo":158,"stem":159,"tags":160,"__hash__":162},"changelog\u002Fchangelog\u002F0008.scheduling-with-your-day-in-view.md","Schedule an inspection with your whole day in front of you",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":135},"minimark",[9,13,16,21,28,62,65,69,80,83,87,90,96,101,106,113,116,120,132],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Your clients have been able to see your real availability for a while now. The\nbooking page never offers a slot that collides with another inspection, lands in\nyour time off, cuts into your lunch, or leaves you no time to drive — that\narithmetic has been running on every booking link since the tool shipped.",[10,14,15],{},"You couldn't see any of it. Setting a date yourself was a bare calendar and a\ntime dropdown. Whether 11:30 on Thursday was actually free was something you\neither remembered or found out later.",[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"the-day-youre-booking-into","The day you're booking into",[10,22,23,27],{},[24,25,26],"strong",{},"Set date & time"," now draws it:",[29,30,31,39,49,55],"ul",{},[32,33,34,35,38],"li",{},"Your ",[24,36,37],{},"other inspections",", at the length you've configured, with the\ndrive-time buffer hatched in above and below each one.",[32,40,34,41,44,45,48],{},[24,42,43],{},"time off"," and ",[24,46,47],{},"recurring blocks"," — the same ones clients can't book,\nnow visible where you're the one doing the booking.",[32,50,34,51,54],{},[24,52,53],{},"working hours",", with everything outside them hatched out.",[32,56,57,58,61],{},"The ",[24,59,60],{},"open gaps"," long enough to hold a full inspection, outlined and\nclickable.",[10,63,64],{},"The calendar on the left marks every day that already has something on it, and\ndims the weekdays you don't work, so you can see where your week is thin before\nyou commit to anything.",[17,66,68],{"id":67},"getting-the-inspection-in-place","Getting the inspection in place",[10,70,71,72,75,76,79],{},"Click an open gap and it drops straight in. Click anywhere on the timeline to\nplace it there. Use the ",[24,73,74],{},"Start time"," menu. Or take the shortcut —\n",[24,77,78],{},"Right after 1420 Birch Ct"," puts you at the end of that job with your buffer\nalready accounted for.",[10,81,82],{},"Open the window on a day that's already busy and it won't start you on a\ncollision: it lands on the nearest time that actually fits.",[17,84,86],{"id":85},"when-it-doesnt-fit","When it doesn't fit",[10,88,89],{},"A line under the timeline tells you where you stand, and when something's wrong\nit says what:",[91,92,93],"blockquote",{},[10,94,95],{},"Overlaps your lunch.",[91,97,98],{},[10,99,100],{},"Runs past your workday.",[91,102,103],{},[10,104,105],{},"Too tight against 1420 Birch Ct — leaves less than 30 min drive time.",[10,107,108,109,112],{},"Next to it is the nearest time that works — ",[24,110,111],{},"Use 12:30 PM"," — one click away.",[10,114,115],{},"But it's your calendar. The Save button turns amber and still saves. Two\ninspections on the same block, a Saturday you're making an exception for, an\nhour you'll make up somewhere — those are decisions, not mistakes, and the app\ndoesn't get a vote.",[17,117,119],{"id":118},"also-before-it-exists","Also, before it exists",[10,121,122,123,126,127,131],{},"The same window opens from ",[24,124,125],{},"Add Inspection"," when you choose ",[128,129,130],"em",{},"Pick date &\ntime",", so you're scheduling with your week in view from the start rather than\nbooking blind and fixing it afterwards.",[10,133,134],{},"One smaller thing came along with it: times are now anchored to the timezone in\nyour scheduling settings rather than whatever your laptop's clock says. If those\ntwo differ — you travel, or you set your hours for the market you work in — the\nwindow tells you which one it's showing.",{"title":136,"searchDepth":137,"depth":137,"links":138},"",2,[139,140,141,142],{"id":19,"depth":137,"text":20},{"id":67,"depth":137,"text":68},{"id":85,"depth":137,"text":86},{"id":118,"depth":137,"text":119},"2026-08-06","Setting a date now shows your other inspections, your time off, your buffers, and your working hours — and tells you when a time doesn't fit.","Your clients have always been able to see your real availability — the booking page only ever offers slots that fit around your other jobs, your time off, and your drive time. You couldn't. Picking a date yourself was a bare calendar and a time dropdown, so the only way to know whether 11:30 on Thursday was free was to remember. Set date & time now draws the day you're booking into: your other inspections at their real length with the buffer either side, your time off and recurring blocks, your working hours, and the open gaps big enough for a full inspection. Click a gap to drop the inspection in, or use a shortcut like 'Right after 1420 Birch Ct'. If what you pick doesn't fit, a line underneath says exactly why — overlaps your lunch, runs past your workday, leaves less than 30 minutes of drive time — and offers the nearest time that does. It's your calendar, so a conflict is a warning and never a wall. The same window opens from Add Inspection, so you get the context before the inspection even exists.","md",[148,149,150,151,152],"Setting a date now draws your other inspections, time off, and working hours to scale","Open gaps big enough for a full inspection are outlined — click one to book it","Conflicts explain themselves and offer the nearest time that fits","Shortcuts like \"Right after 1420 Birch Ct\" place the inspection with your drive time already allowed for","The same view opens from Add Inspection, not just from an existing inspection","\u002Fhelp-media\u002Fnew-inspector-scheduler.png",null,{},true,"\u002Fchangelog\u002Fscheduling-with-your-day-in-view",{"title":5,"description":144},"changelog\u002F0008.scheduling-with-your-day-in-view",[161],"Scheduling","vJTOwW0yHEuE3-ozsmoU1DUkeDDMAqxB6K-yqqNIg98",1787848600039]