Today’s “Featured Feature” from the Hafnium release of Three Rings is one of the one’s we’re most excited about:Drag-and-Drop rota management.
Right now, this is a very ‘bleeding edge’ facility, and we’d really like to know how different organisations use this feature, how they’d like it to work, and how we can make it better for them in the future.
With Drag-and-drop you can drag a volunteer from the ‘volunteer list’ onto an empty shift, from one shift to another shift, or from a shift they are on to ‘bin’. It should prove to run a lot faster to make adjustments to your rota – especially in those cases where a volunteer is simply moving from one shift to another.
Drag-and-drop in the Rota.
In the screenshot above, you can also see that this organisation has chosen to make the “understaffed” shifts appear red, rather than the default orange: that’s another new feature in this release – you’re able to customise the rota colours more than ever before. See the Localisation panel of the Admin tab for more details.
For now, Drag-and-drop only works in Week View, but we’re hoping it will really speed up the process of manually filling shifts, especially if you find yourself re-configuring your rota around special rota patterns, such as Christmas shifts. If you can find extra ways to make it work for you, that’s even better! We’d particularly love to hear from any rota administrators who give this feature a go, so please do feel free to get in touch!