The Overview is the page you land on when you sign in. There are two boards - a Manager command-centre and a simpler Team board - and which one you see depends on your role.
When you'd use this
- Checking at a glance whether today is on track and what needs you now (Manager board).
- Reading the day's notices, seeing your own assigned dive groups, and checking the weather and tide (Team board).
The two boards
- Manager Overview - the command-centre. From the top down: an amber alert strip (anything that needs attention - gear due for service, boats due for service, staff credentials expiring, divers needing physician sign-off); the weather, tide and notice cards; the operational KPIs (forward load, bookings, dives, bot SLA, WhatsApp); Today's Day Plan; an Action queue and Starting tomorrow pair; a Who's out two-week leave calendar; and a live rail with Waiting for Reply, a Fleet now mini-map of your boats, the 14-day forward-load chart, Recent Activity and Recent Bookings. Money figures are not shown here - they live in Finance.
- Team Overview - a simpler everybody board: the notice board, your assigned dive groups, weather and tide. No money, no management KPIs.
Senior staff who can see both get a Manager / Team toggle in the top right to switch between them. Everyone else just sees the board their role is set to. Everyone can reach an Overview - nobody lands on a blank page.
The Manager command-centre, card by card
- Alert strip - amber chips, one per thing that needs attention. Click a chip to jump straight to the page that fixes it. Chips only appear when there's something to show, so an all-clear day has none.
- Action queue - the "what needs a decision right now" list: bookings to confirm, course students who still need an instructor (links to Assignments), and service jobs in the workshop. Empty when you're all caught up.
- Starting tomorrow - who walks in the door tomorrow and for what course, with party size and booking status. The card every centre wants at 4pm.
- Who's out - a two-week calendar of staff leave. Each day shows the initials of anyone off; a dashed circle means leave that's still pending approval. Today is outlined in your brand colour.
- Fleet now - a mini-map of your boats' live positions and the last 24 hours of their tracks (needs the optional GPS tracker; without it the card invites you to add one).
Choosing which board a role sees
Which board a role lands on is controlled by two permissions in Settings → Roles & Permissions, under the Pages group:
- Manager Overview - tick this for roles that should see the command-centre.
- Team Overview - tick this for roles that should see the Team board (on by default for every role).
Tick both for a role and that person gets the Manager/Team toggle. See roles.md.
The notice board (Team board)
- Everyone sees the notices. Managers (anyone with the Manager Overview permission) can post, pin and delete them.
- To post: type into "Post a message to all staff…", optionally tick Pin to keep it at the top, then press Post.
- To remove a notice, press its delete (bin) icon and confirm "Delete this notice?".
Weather and tide cards
Both boards show a weather card (live conditions, wind in knots) and a tide card (the day's high and low waters) for your centre's location.
- The cards are labelled with your place name (e.g. your island or town), not your centre name.
- Weather is live. Tide times are generated by DiveOps for your location - if your tide card is empty, your location hasn't been set up for tides yet (see below). The cards quietly hide rather than error when data is missing.
- Tide times are a planning guide, not for navigation.
Setting your location (for weather and tide)
The cards need to know where your centre is. Set it once in Centre Info → Hours & Locale:
- Open Settings → Centre Info and scroll to the Hours & Locale card.
- Under Location (for weather & tides), click the map or drag the pin to your centre's spot (or type the Latitude and Longitude).
- The Location name fills in automatically from the map (e.g. your island or town) - edit it if you want a different label. This is what shows on the cards.
- Save. Weather updates straight away; tide tables are generated by DiveOps per location.
Tips
- For an offshore pin, the auto-filled name may come back as a province rather than the island or dive area - just type the right name into Location name.
- The Overview no longer shows any revenue or money figures - those live in Finance (still gated by View pricing & revenue).
Troubleshooting
- Symptom: the tide card is empty but weather works → Cause / fix: your location is set but DiveOps hasn't generated tides for it yet. Weather is instant; tides are precomputed per location - contact DiveOps support.
- Symptom: the cards show your centre name, not a place name → Cause / fix: set Location name under Centre Info → Hours & Locale.
- Symptom: a role lands on the Team board but should see the Manager board → Cause / fix: tick Manager Overview for that role in Roles & Permissions.