Quick-start 3: Creating Jobs

Using a web browser, open the Skedulo web app. You can immediately start creating jobs by going to the scheduling console and clicking the "Quick Create Job" button, located just above the job list in the scheduling console's swimlane view.

The quick create job button in the scheduling console.

You are now prompted to "Drag to schedule." So, using the mouse, drag-and-drop the job card into a swimlane.

To allocate the job to a specific resource, drop the card into their associated swimlane.

How to drag-and-drop a job card into a swimlane.

Once in a swimlane, you can move or re-size the job to get the desired resource, job location, duration, and start time.

A job being manipulated in the swimlane in steps of five minutes.

Clicking the job name (or job number) will redirect you to the job details view. Here you can fine-tune the details by adding resources, adjusting times, adding attachments, etc.

An alternate way to create a job is via the ever-present "Create Job" button. Find it at the top-right of the scheduling console next to the global search box (the "+" icon).

Creating a job this way opens the "Create Job" page. You'll need to complete all the "required fields" (marked red) before you can save and schedule it.

In the job details view or job page, you will find (and be able to populate) all the details of the job. For example, the job type, description, region, and urgency, along with an associated account, contact and location/address–you can also allocate a date and time if this information is known to you.

Within this view you can also create a recurring schedule, e.g., My job must be completed every two days until eight occurrences are created, and they cannot occur on weekends or holidays.