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For contractors

Seeing your zones and people, scheduling deliveries, and reading the alerts that affect you.

Contractors see the site through the lens of their own work: your areas, your people, your plant and your deliveries, drawn on the same shared plan everyone else is looking at. This page is the short version of the day — three things you will do, and one you will read.

Find your own work on the plan

Your work areas and exclusion zones are drawn on the shared plan, so you can see exactly where your team is booked to be and what sits next to it. The people and equipment you have scheduled appear for the times they are on site, which is why the timeline matters as much as the map.

  1. Press B to open the entity browser — the searchable list of everything placed on the site.
  2. Press C to open Contractors and use it to isolate your own firm's colour, so your work stands out from everyone else's on the plan.
  3. Drag the timeline scrubber to the shift you care about. An entity only draws while its own window overlaps the moment you are looking at, so "nothing there" usually means "not yet" or "not any more", not "missing".
  4. Click any of your entities to open properties (D) and read its window, its level and what it is booked against.

Book a delivery

Deliveries are booked against a time and a drop point, and they appear on the plan alongside everyone else's — which is the whole point: a lift or a load must not land on top of live work.

  1. Press A to enter add mode, then D for Delivery.
  2. Click the plan where the load is going. That point is the drop, and it is what the clash engine tests against neighbouring work.
  3. Fill in the window — when the vehicle arrives and when the drop is clear — and save. The delivery now carries a status you (and the coordinator) can move as it progresses.

Booking is half the story — what happens when the vehicle arrives (sign-off is receipt, and where it was dropped is always recorded) is covered in Receiving deliveries and Deliveries & inventory.

Read the alerts that affect you

When something needs your attention — a restriction, a clash against your work, a notice — it surfaces on the Noticeboard (N), ranked by how urgent it is, with the detail of what changed and when. Your own My Tasks panel (T) carries the items that are specifically yours to act on rather than merely to know about.

  1. Press N and read the top of the list first — severity, not recency, decides the order.
  2. Open any row to see which two things are in conflict and over what window.
  3. Fix it the ordinary way — move a window, move a position, or say so. Detection is server-side and continuous, so a corrected plan clears the row without anyone marking it resolved.

Note: If work is actually stopped — you are standing there unable to proceed — that is not an alert, it is a Blocker. Raise it from the phone in a few taps; see Raising a blocker. Alerts describe a risk; a blocker records lost time.


See also: Getting started · Blockers & delays · How activity reaches people.

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