Layouts

The scheduler draws a view in one of four layouts. The maker picks the layout once, on the view’s configuration row (Layout on the Chrona Scheduler View row, see Where things are set up); the people using the view do not switch it. What they do choose, per person, is the interval: Day, Week, Work week or Month, and the rest of the toolbar’s settings.

Every layout shows the same rows: the shifts, jobs or visits of the bound view, drag-and-drop scheduling, the right-click menu, the unscheduled panel, and the collision checks. The colors in the pictures come from the view row’s Color by setting, here set to Role: a bar takes its role’s color; Group and Status are the other choices, and nothing leaves the bars neutral.

Layout	What it draws	Pick it when
Timeline	One lane per person or asset, time across, bars for the rows. The default, and the only layout with the coverage strip and the roster periods.	Planning against people or assets: who is on, who is free, where the gaps are.
Roster grid	One row per person, one column per day, each shift as a chip on the day it starts; an item longer than a day shows on each day it covers. Shifts nobody works sit in the Open shifts row above the people: drag one onto a person to assign it, or a person’s shift onto the row to take them off. With Chrona Workforce Scheduler, people sit in groups by their first role, and each group has its own Open shifts row and a Filled / needed row that counts each day’s shifts. With a Period on the view row, it shows the whole period, and Previous and Next move a period at a time.	The classic roster sheet: a week or a fortnight at a glance, printed or on a wall screen.
Top-down	One column per person, time down the page, bars with their length.	A day at a time, when the length of each shift matters more than the week.
Agenda	The rows as a list by day, with the time, the title and the person.	A phone, a narrow pane, or reading the plan rather than moving it.

Without a Resource lookup bound there are no people or assets, so the timeline layout shows the day, week or month calendar instead.

Timeline

Roster grid

Top-down

Agenda

Setting the layout

1. Open the Chrona Scheduler View row for the view (the row whose Bound view is the view’s id; Connect creates it).
2. Set Layout to Timeline, Roster grid, Top-down or Agenda. Empty means Timeline.
3. Save. The next load of the view draws it that way for everyone.

The time scale (Slot length), the working hours and the weekend default on the same row apply to every layout that draws a time axis.