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Shooting scheduleRead and handle warnings
See practical problems in the schedule, jump to them, and keep or dismiss the ones you accept.
Before you start
- A shooting schedule exists.
Steps
Click the warnings chip in the toolbar, for example 5 warnings.
The Schedule assistance panel opens, labelled Practical observations. Each warning is a card with a message and sometimes a detail line. The cards here are: a call sheet prepared before its day changed, an actor needed at several locations on one day, and scenes on a day that are missing location information.
Click Open affected item on a card.
It opens the day page for that warning. Move scene (you decide) does the same, so you can change the scenes yourself. OpenFrame never moves a scene to fix a warning. The warning cards also appear as yellow bars at the top of the day page.
Read the day page you reached.
Only the warnings for this day show. You can fix the cause, for example by confirming a location in Breakdown or Locations, or by moving a scene to a different day.
Click Keep anyway on a warning you accept.
The card moves down to KEPT OR DISMISSED with a Kept anyway label and a Show again button, and the count on the chip goes down, here from 5 to 4. Keeping a warning leaves the schedule as it is.
Click Dismiss on another warning.
It joins KEPT OR DISMISSED with a Dismissed label, and the count goes down again, here to 3. Show again on any decided card puts it back among the open warnings.
Read the foot of the panel, then close it with the x at the top right.
It says: Warnings never block you and nothing is fixed automatically. When there are no warnings the panel says No warnings. The schedule looks consistent.
What you get
You have seen each warning, fixed what you want to fix and set aside what you accept.
Watch out for
- The app raises warnings for actors needed at several locations on one day, missing locations, days longer than their target, travel that pushes a day over, the same location needed on two days with the same date, scenes removed from the script but still scheduled, call sheets that are out of date, and cast or locations marked unavailable on a date. It only raises a warning when it has the data: missing values are never invented.
- A red outline on a strip, and a red count on a day header, show where the open warnings are.