Buffer between a crew's jobs

A hatched marker between consecutive jobs for the same crew, labelled with the number of idle days.

What it is

Between one project and the previous project belonging to the same crew, the chart draws a diagonally-hatched band spanning the gap. When there is room, it prints '3d buffer' inside it.

Also called: gap between jobs · crew downtime · days between builds

See it
Buffer between a crew's jobs
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Ronan Petsch — 30×40 Garage
Framing
Ivy Brubaker — Barndominium
Concrete
Delia Yoder — Riding Arena
Trim
Ivy Brubaker — Riding Arena
Framing
Marlin Hoover — Equipment Storage
Concrete
Framing crewConcrete crewTrim crew
Hatched '5d buffer' band between two jobs on the same crew row — GanttChart.tsx rowGeometry + buffer indicator. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Row geometry runs one O(P) pass per project-list change, keeping the last span seen per crew
  2. 2The gap is span.start minus the previous same-crew span.end
  3. 3The band renders only when the gap is positive, and the label only when the band is wide enough to read
Why we built it

Idle crew days are money — two empty days between a crew's jobs is two days of wages against no revenue, and nobody could see the holes because they were scattered down a long board. The gaps between a crew's consecutive jobs are drawn on the chart. Earlier versions recalculated that geometry for every row on every frame of a pan, which made the board stutter badly enough on a phone that people stopped using it in the field.

The problem
  • Unbooked crew days being invisible on the schedule
Sound familiar?
What you get
Idle days are visible and countable
Easier to pull the next job forward into the gap

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