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How YourCA works, step by step.

How do I print the roster?

  1. Open Schedule and go to This week. Move to the week you want with the arrows on the band.
  2. Press Download, on the row of controls above the grid. On a phone it is on the band beside the week instead, so it uses no row of its own.
  3. On a crew of fewer than twelve, the row holds Download and nothing else. The grid is already easy to read for a small crew, so the filters are not drawn.
  4. There are four formats, and each says what it is for. PDF is the week as a document to print or send as it is. Word is the same document, for when you want to add a line. Excel is the working sheet. CSV is the plain file another system reads.
  5. It contains exactly what you are looking at: the week you are on, narrowed by any job, trade or suburb filter or search. The narrowing prints on the document, so nobody reads a filtered roster as your whole crew.
  6. Only the people with a day that week are in it. It says how many of your crew were left out. A printed roster with seventy-eight names and fifty of them blank is unreadable in the shed.
  7. It prints landscape, with a row for each person and a column for each day. Each cell shows their task and their hours, exactly as the grid shows them. The last row counts how many people are on each day.
  8. The hours column is what you rostered across every job that week, not what anybody clocked. The spreadsheet and the CSV keep those as numbers, so a column of them adds up.
  9. It is the document on your own letterhead, with nothing on it that names YourCA, because it goes out in your name.
Worth knowing

A week with nobody on it has no Download at all. A file of only column headings tells the reader less than no file. What somebody actually worked is a different question and a different file. For that, use Hours on the same tab, which downloads every shift in a date range.