Filling in the plan

What this is

You fill the plan in the way you would colour cells in the spreadsheet: pick a colour from the key, then click or drag across the days.

There is no Save. A day is written the moment you let go of the mouse, and it records who set it - hover any square to see.

The colour stays picked until you put it down, so you can paint several people in a row without picking it again.

Painted over the wrong days? Undo puts them back. It remembers your last 30 paints and clears until you leave the page.

Part days. Every painted square is a full day unless you say otherwise. Beside the key, Full day / Half day / Other sets how much of the day the colour books - pick Half day and drag, and every square you paint is a half day. A part day keeps its colour and letter and shows its share in the corner: ½, or 25%. To change one square that is already painted, click it with no colour picked and choose.

Days add up across sites. Someone can be on three sites on one day at a third each. The red dot now means more than a full day is booked - two full days, or a full day and a half - not simply two sites.

You need a connection to make changes. If Clarity Resource cannot reach the server it reloads the page, so you always see what was really saved rather than a change that never arrived.

What it looks like

Start to finish

1. Pick a colour from the key along the top. It gets a gold outline.
2. Click a day, or drag along a row or down a column.
3. Carry on with the same colour as long as you need it.
4. Click the picked colour again to put it down.

How to

• Paint one day: pick a colour, then click the square.
• Paint a run of days: pick a colour and drag along the row. You can also press on the colour itself and sweep straight onto the days in one movement.
• Paint the same day for several people: drag down a column.
• Change a day: paint over it with a different colour.
• Clear days: pick × Clear and click or drag over them.
• Pencil someone in: use TBC (the grey ?) until it is confirmed, then paint over it.
• Put the colour down so you cannot paint by accident: click it a second time.
• Undo a mistake: press Undo - the curved arrow beside the pin at the right of the ribbon - or Ctrl+Z. It puts the squares back exactly as they were and saves that. It goes back through your last 30 paints and clears; a Who's free booking is cleared by hand instead.
• Paint half days: press Half day beside the key, pick a colour and paint as usual. Press Full day to go back to whole days.
• Split a day three ways: press Other, type 33, and paint that person on each of the three sites.
• Change one square to a part day: put the colour down (click it a second time), click the square, and choose Full day, Half day or Other.