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The field map
Clients, sites and home addresses on one base map: what each pin represents, how to measure a real distance, and where to see the territory your decrees cover.
The map is not an illustration: it is a decision tool. It answers questions no list knows how to ask: which site is closest to this home, how many kilometres between two mandates, which decree covers this municipality.
Three modes, four panels, a Google base map. The sections that follow take them one by one; read the ones that concern you.
- What you see on it
- Clients, projects, employee homes
- Measuring
- As the crow flies, then by road
- Writing
- The “Add” mode creates real records
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The three modes
Everything starts here, and the current mode changes what a click on the map means.
“Browse” opens the pin you click: its record, its punch zone, a shortcut to add a schedule to it. “Measure” turns clicks into measurement points. “Add” turns a click into a record creation: the only one of the three that writes anything.
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Filter what is displayed
Three dropdowns filter by client, by project and by employee home. The search beside them accepts a name or an address.
“Reset” clears everything. It is worth knowing: a forgotten filter makes you believe a site has vanished from the map when it is simply hidden.
The map lifts your filters for you
When you ask to see a point your filters were hiding, the app lifts them and tells you which: “Filters were hiding X, they have been lifted to show the point.” Nobody hunts for an invisible pin without knowing why.
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The display panel
Two families of layers, and the distinction matters. “Clic Horaire pins” controls YOUR data: clients, projects, homes, employees at work live, and the option to hide finished projects. Each entry shows its count.
“Google base map” controls the scenery: businesses and their icons, bus and metro lines, highway shields, park and neighbourhood names. Turning it all off gives a bare map where only your points remain: often what you want for a screenshot or a meeting.
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What the map cannot place
A banner at the bottom counts the records with no coordinates: they exist, but no point can represent them. “See more info” lists them, with a shortcut to correct the address without leaving the map.
The “Place the N automatically” button geocodes every address at once and saves the coordinates found. It is handy after an import, and it is a massive write: addresses that cannot be found still have to be corrected one by one, and the operation counts in hundreds of records.
An address picked from the suggestions, not typed
The message says it bluntly: “Open their record and pick an address from the suggestions to place them.” An address typed by hand carries no coordinates: it is the selection from the list that attaches them. It is the most common cause of a missing pin.
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Measure a distance
The “Measure” mode asks for two points: a start and an end. Each can be an existing pin (an employee, a home, a project, a client) or any spot on the map, which then becomes a “free point” whose address is found automatically.
The dotted line gives the distance as the crow flies. “Road distance” replaces it with the actual driving route, with its estimated duration.
In measure mode, clicking an employee's avatar starts from their CURRENT position, not their home. That is what answers “who is closest to the site that just opened up”.
Send the route to the person concerned
When the start is an employee, the measurement offers to send them the route by message. They receive the destination and the link, with no address to copy into a conversation.
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The decree zones
The layer tints the territory covered by each of your decrees, with its legend. Useful for settling a recurring question: does this site fall under the Montréal committee or the Québec City one?
Two caveats are written on the panel, and they deserve reading. The zones follow the official administrative regions, whereas a decree may cover only part of one. And in Mauricie, Estrie and Centre-du-Québec, the territory is split municipality by municipality between the two committees.
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Live mode
“Live” switches the map to real time and brings up a bar that does not otherwise exist: the refresh rate (15, 30 or 60 seconds), the time of the last read, a recentre button, and the crew panel.
Employees on shift then appear as avatars at their punch position. When nobody is on duty, the map says so rather than staying empty with no explanation.
The crew panel does more than watch
It lists the days still open, flags those running for more than twelve hours (a departure probably forgotten) lets you write to a whole crew in their site's channel, and close days remotely. Those are writing actions: they deserve their own article.
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Add a project by pointing
The “Add” mode serves when you know the place better than its address. You click the exact spot on the map, the address is found automatically, and you choose to make it a project or a client.
If no address is known at that spot (a roadside site, a place with no street number) the coordinates are kept anyway. The pin exists, geofencing works, only the address stays empty.
What to remember
The punch zone is set from the map
A project's pin shows its geofencing radius, or “No punch zone” when it has none. A “Set” button opens the setting without going through the project record: the shortest route when you spot the problem while looking at the map.
The map has a full screen and a dark theme
The button at the top right of the base map switches to full screen. A second one, under the toolbar, flips that bar to dark: useful in a control room, or simply when the map occupies the screen all day.
“See on the map” from a list
The client and project lists carry a shortcut that opens the map already centred on the chosen item, filters lifted if needed. You rarely reach the map through the menu: you reach it from what you were looking at.
Go further
Clients and projects
The frame everything else hangs on: what a project is for, what it decides for the hours worked on it, and why some records refuse to disappear.
LireBuilding an employee's schedule
Placing a shift on a site: who, where, when, with which breaks, and reading the total paid hours before saving, not after.
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