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Creating a Worksheet

How to create a worksheet, assign it to a team member, and add jobs or quotes before saving.

Work Planner Team12 April 2026

A new worksheet can start completely empty, but in most cases you create it with at least one job or quote already attached. That makes the create screen part route setup, part assignment, and part job selection.

Main Fields

  • Name: The worksheet name defaults to today’s date. Keep that if you use date-based worksheets, or replace it with a route name, staff name, area name, or anything else your team will recognise quickly.
  • Assigned Team Member: Use this when the worksheet already belongs to a specific user. Leave it as Unassigned if you are building the worksheet before deciding who will run it.
  • Business context: This screen creates the worksheet inside the business you are currently working in. If you have more than one business selected, the job and quote selectors can still pull in records from those selected businesses, and each worksheet item keeps the business it came from.

Adding Jobs

  • Add Job: Opens the jobs selector popup so you can pull in jobs that are available for worksheet assignment.
  • Selected jobs list: Shows the jobs you have already chosen so you can review or remove them before saving.
  • Create from inside the selector: If the job does not exist yet, the selector can open the create-job popup and then add the new job back into the worksheet form automatically.

Adding Quotes

  • Add Quote: Opens the quote selector popup so quotes can be attached before the worksheet is saved.
  • Selected quotes list: Lets you double-check the reference, customer, and quote status before creating the worksheet.
  • Create from inside the selector: If the quote does not exist yet, the selector can open the create-quote popup and bring the saved quote back into the worksheet form.

What Happens After Save

  • Validation: Work Planner expects at least one job or quote. An empty worksheet is not the normal create flow here.
  • Worksheet opens ready to work: After save, the worksheet detail screen becomes the place where you reorder items, mark statuses, print, submit, and manage the route.

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