Lesson 6 of 8 · 5 min
Today's Routes Sidebar — Stop-by-Stop Dispatch View
Use the Today's Routes sidebar in Routes mode to see every technician's full day plan, interact with individual stops, and email or copy routes.
Today's Routes Sidebar — Stop-by-Stop Dispatch View
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Lesson Notes
When Routes mode is active, the right-side area of the map page switches from the default job list to the Today's Routes sidebar. This sidebar groups all computed route data by technician. Each technician appears as a collapsible section header showing their name, color dot, total stop count, total drive distance (in both km and mi), total drive time, and the window from their day's first job to their last job's end. Clicking the technician's name row toggles the stop list open or closed.
Within each technician's expanded section, stops are rendered in sequence order with numbered badges colored to match that technician's route color. Between stops, leg dividers show the distance and drive time for each segment — for example, '2.1km / 1.3mi · 5m' between stop 1 and stop 2. The first leg shows a home icon (the technician starts from their home base); the final leg shows a flag icon for the return home. Each stop row shows the property address, scheduled time, shoot duration, and a state indicator: an empty circle for upcoming stops, a pulsing ring for the active (in-progress) stop, and a green check for completed stops.
Each stop also shows a live weather icon and temperature fetched from the Open-Meteo API for that stop's coordinates at its scheduled time. The weather icons map WMO weather codes to Lucide icons: Sun for clear, CloudSun for partly cloudy, Cloud for overcast, CloudDrizzle for drizzle, CloudRain for rain, CloudSnow for snow, CloudLightning for thunderstorms. The icon color changes with severity — amber for clear/partly cloudy, sky-blue for rain, slate for snow/fog, red for thunderstorms. This lets dispatchers and technicians see at a glance whether weather might affect a specific shoot before heading out.
Clicking a stop row selects that job on the map, flying the camera to its location. If the underlying job is no longer in the active jobs feed (for example, it has been delivered and archived), the stop row still renders and clicking it flies the map to the stop's coordinates via a fallback handler, so you are never stranded looking at a stop that can't be navigated to. The three-dot menu on each technician header gives two actions: Copy route as text (produces a plain-text summary of the route that can be pasted into a messaging app) and Email to technician (opens an email compose dialog pre-filled with the route summary and the technician's email address).
Route isolation lets you focus the map on one technician at a time. Clicking a technician header's name area toggles map isolation — all other technician routes and stops dim to low opacity while the selected technician's route renders at full brightness. A 'Clear route isolation' link appears at the top of the sidebar when isolation is active. Isolation is purely visual and doesn't affect data or any other user.
Key Takeaways
- Each technician section shows total stops, distance (km and mi), drive time, and the day window at a glance.
- Leg dividers between stops show drive distance and time for each individual segment.
- Stop rows show weather icons and temperature from Open-Meteo — useful for outdoor and twilight shoot planning.
- The three-dot menu per technician lets you copy or email the full route as plain text.
- Click a technician's name row to isolate their route on the map; all other routes dim.