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# Introduction to Scheduling

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**Important:** this feature requires the paid **Operations add-on.**
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## What is a job?

A Job in PaintScout is a project assigned to a crew. Keep track of your team's scheduling and availability by scheduling jobs, assigning project leads and crews, and viewing them on your calendar or map.

Each Job contains details like:

* ​Deal and contact information
* ​Date(s) of the job
* ​Job progress
* ​Total amount of the job ($)
* ​Estimated hours to complete the job
* ​Assigned project lead and crew

Jobs are your way to easily schedule, visualize, and adjust your team's timelines on projects.

![Animated overview of a job in PaintScout showing deal, dates, crew, and progress](/files/SWoyjpR45ICUO4cLJK3n)

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To assign jobs, you must first create your **Crews**. You can set up your project leads and crews in [Create a Crew](/support/operations/crews/create-a-crew.md).
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## Production Calendar

Visualize and manage your team's jobs on the Production Calendar.

* **​Schedule View**: gives a detailed overview of all unscheduled and scheduled jobs, organized by project lead and crew. View current and upcoming projects, job progress, and total amounts scheduled by project lead.
  * ​Jobs on the timeline can be rearranged and reassigned to a different project lead or crew, and expanded or collapsed to adjust the length of project.
  * The timeline includes a [weather snapshot](/support/operations/jobs/weather-in-paintscout.md) showing the daily high temperature for the city listed in your Account Settings.

![Production Calendar Schedule View showing jobs organized by project lead and crew on a timeline](/files/zN0zTFiu60IIJmi6ZmQI)

* **​Day, Week & Month View:** Switch between views to get a full scope of all past, current and upcoming scheduled jobs, organized by project lead.

![Production Calendar Day, Week, and Month view options for scheduled jobs](/files/8b2ATj22OkGdS3T8ZM4b)

* ​**Filter by Users:** Narrow down jobs by selected project leads.

![Filtering the Production Calendar by selected project leads](/files/28YDa4MPsdm6zEJm4VDb)

* **Weekends**: On Week and Month views, you can choose to display weekends.

![Toggling weekend display on the Production Calendar Week and Month views](/files/iA6eW6kKW9hQSVxsTs4B)

* **Total week/month:** Total amounts that week or month, broken down by user.
  * Only visible to Team users and Sales users with permissions to view other users' info.

![Production Calendar showing total scheduled amounts for the week broken down by user](/files/voWbU6bJDb4XIrniqPar)

* **​Interactive Events:** Click on a job to view all relevant details.

![Clicking a job on the Production Calendar to view its details](/files/IcOdLk5FpY4r0ckwTCSU)

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## Map view

The Map helps you visualize where jobs are happening on a particular day.

* **​Views:** Choose between **Map** or **Satellite** view.
* ​**Pins**: Each project lead's jobs are shown as pins on the map.
* ​**Interactivity**: Hover over pins to see tooltips, or click a pin to open **Job Details.**
* ​**Navigation**: Switch between days and return to **Today** with one click.
* ​**Filter by Users:** Show only the project leads you want to see.

![Map view showing job locations as pins for each project lead](/files/ju5VnCAhS3PZUlpaWeUf)

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