August 23, 2026
Project rows in Planning now carry real numbers: progress, hours logged against
hours planned, how far ahead or behind schedule, and a bar drawing the actual
against the plan so a slip reads as a shape rather than only a figure. That is the
piece that makes it possible to look at one large order and decide whether to break
it up. It is being enabled per organisation, so ask if you want it on.
Two fixes worth a look if they sound familiar. Clocking a crew out now stamps each
session's end at the clock-out time, matching the attendance record beside it. And
the date filter in Timesheets → Sessions applies when you set it.
Also: a team can name more than one lead, editing a route inline in Planning offers
that row's own department, QR scans from the wrong department explain themselves,
the support chat is being replaced one organisation at a time, and a couple of
layout fixes tidied up drawers and the form page.
New
Grouping Planning by project now puts numbers on the project row: a progress bar,
the percentage done, and hours logged against hours planned, with a tick showing
where the schedule says you should be today. Hovering it opens the detail, how far
ahead or behind schedule the project is in man hours and how many hours are left.
It covers the whole project, including rows your current filters are hiding.
The chart beside it draws the same thing as a shape. A planned window with the
actual against it, so a project that is slipping overruns its planned box rather
than only reading as a number. A project still running keeps an open-ended bar
rather than looking finished.
Working out where a project stood used to mean opening its orders one at a time and
adding them up. This is what makes it possible to look at one large order and decide
whether to break it into smaller ones.
It is being enabled per organisation, so ask if you want it turned on.
Maintenance
Clocking a crew out stamps each work session's end at the clock-out time,
matching the attendance record beside it.
Maintenance
Setting a date range in Timesheets → Sessions narrows the list to that range, so
you can read and export across weeks in one go.
Before this the range could revert to the pay cycle as the filter drawer closed.
Both the current and the previous Sessions view are fixed.
Maintenance
Editing a route inline in the Planning table offers routes from that row's own
department, matching what the drawer has always done.
Before this the list included other departments' routes, and picking one moved the
work out of your team's view. Rows that belong to no single department, like an
order spanning several, still show everything.
New
A team can name several leads instead of one, so a crew answering to more than one
foreman can be set up as it actually works.
The workaround before this was a second team holding the same workers, which does
not hold: a worker belongs to one team, so moving them into the second takes them
out of the first. The practical cost was leads scrolling the whole worker list to
assign anything, because the shortcut to their own crew only worked for whoever
held the single lead slot.
Every existing lead is carried over, so nothing needs setting up again.
Maintenance
Every rejected QR scan on Build now explains itself: not recognised, archived,
or belonging to another department. Work from another department is refused rather
than partly accepted.
Before this, a cross-department scan gave no message. An order that spans
departments stays scannable everywhere. The scanner also fits the screen properly
on desktop and on a phone.
Improved
The help button now opens a new support chat, with the bubble in the same corner
you are used to.
You are recognised when it opens, so you do not have to introduce yourself or say
which shop you are from before asking anything. Your history moves with you, and
past conversations are where you left them.
This is arriving one organisation at a time rather than all at once.
Read this online at https://changelog.buildingswell.com/notes/week/2026-w34