Use Advanced Mode in Adaptive Capacity Reporting to plan your week and make manual adjustments

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Overview

Advanced Mode in Adaptive Capacity Reporting shows your capacity at a granular level. This gives you valuable insights that you can organize to fit your business needs for more effective daily and weekly planning.


Who uses this feature

  • Administrators, owners, and managers

  • Primarily benefits Residential Service and Commercial Service business types

  • Applies to all trades

Feature configuration

  • Account configuration is required to use this feature. Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to get access.

  • The Apply Manual Adjustments permission is required to use this feature. Please contact the account administrator on your team.

Things to know

Open Advanced Mode in Capacity Reporting

  1. Go to the navigation bar and click Schedule .

  2. Click Capacity Reporting.

  3. Review the informative pop-ups then click Next > Get Started.        

    Tip: To prevent these pop-ups from coming up again, select Don't show this again.

    Setup hierarchy feature for capacity reporting with assigned and unassigned hours overview.    

  4. On the Adaptive Capacity Report that opens, click Advanced under Reporting ModeUser interface showing capacity reporting options for a specific date and mode.

Overview of Capacity Reporting Advanced Mode

Capacity Reporting is based on hours as a unit, not number of jobs. Think of the report as a big spreadsheet with more functionalities.

In Capacity Reporting Advanced Mode, you can:

  • View capacity for a selected day or a five day period in a week. Dropdown menu showing options for daily and weekly capacity view selection.

  • Click the Back  or Forward arrows to change your view by a day if you're in the Daily view or by a week if you're in the Weekly view. A user clicks the right arrow to navigate the daily summary for April 17.

  • Click the Date Picker to select a specific date. Calendar showing April 17, 2026, with a selection for capacity display.

  • Use the tree structure on the left side of the report to expand and collapse hierarchy branches for navigation. Click Expand  to drill down in the report so you can understand what the calculation means. Click Collapse to close a row. Summary of scheduled plumbing jobs with hours assigned for each task.

Time slots in Capacity Reporting Advanced Mode

In the Weekly view, each column represents a day. Every time slot within each day is summarized into one daily summary for each business unit. Click the column header on a given day to switch to the daily view of that day.

In the Daily view, each column represents a time slot. The time slots are listed at the top of each column. To set what type of time slots are shown, click the dropdown below Set Time Frame based on and select one of the following options:

  • Arrival Windows        

    Note: This option is only available if arrival windows are set up in your account.

  • Business Hours

  • Custom Hour Increments

Note: If your account is configured to use office time zones, time slots use the time zone set in your account. Otherwise, time slots use the time zone set on your device.

Options for setting custom hour increments in a scheduling interface.

Note: If you're using arrival windows and there are different arrival windows set up for different business units (BUs), we recommend using BUs or BU groups as the primary hierarchy to accurately display the arrival window split.

Hierarchies in Capacity Reporting Advanced Mode

Hierarchies determine what data you see first, second, and third when you drill down in the report. Advanced Mode uses a tree structure on the left side of the report. Click any branch to expand or collapse it and navigate through your hierarchy levels.

Note: Only a Primary hierarchy is required to view the report. Secondary and Tertiary hierarchies are optional.

To configure your hierarchies:

  1. Click Edit  to configure your hierarchies.

  2. Use the dropdowns to search for and select an attribute for each hierarchy level:

    • The first dropdown sets your primary hierarchy.

    • The second dropdown (indented) sets your secondary hierarchy. This dropdown is only available after a primary hierarchy is selected.

    • The third dropdown (indented further) sets your tertiary hierarchy. This dropdown is only available after a secondary hierarchy is selected.

      User interface for setting up a reporting hierarchy with dimensions for business units.

  3. When finished, click Apply to save your hierarchy selections.

    Note: The Apply button is inactive if no primary hierarchy is selected.

Attributes you can choose from include:

  • Business Unit

  • Business Unit Group        

    Note: Business Unit and Business Unit Group are only shown as hierarchy options if Default to include Business Units in Availability Calculation is turned on as a calculation default in Adaptive Capacity Basic Settings.

  • Job Type

  • Job Type Group

  • Shift Type

  • Skill

  • Tag Type        

    Note: Tag Type is only shown as a hierarchy option if you add tag selections in Adaptive Capacity Advanced Settings.

  • Team

  • Technician

  • Technician Type

  • Trade

  • Zone

Note: Hierarchy Attributes are also available as filters.

Filters in Capacity Reporting Advanced Mode

Hierarchy attributes are also available as filters. Filters persist after you select them, so you don't have to update them each time you open Capacity Reporting. Click Filter to choose what you want to see in the report. You can filter by:

  • Business Unit

  • Business Unit Group        

    Note: Business Unit and Business Unit Group are only shown as filter options if Default to include Business Units in Availability Calculation is turned on as a calculation default in Adaptive Capacity Basic Settings.

  • Job Type

  • Job Type Group

  • Shift Type

  • Skill

  • Tag Type        

    Note: Tag Type is only shown as a filter option if you add tag selections in Adaptive Capacity Advanced Settings.

  • Team

  • Technician

  • Technician Type

  • Trade

  • Zone

Data points in Capacity Reporting Advanced Mode

For each cell in the report, there are four data points:

  1. Labor Supply: The total available technician hours based on schedules and shifts.Labor count shows 8, with added and scheduled tasks also displayed.

  2. Added/Subtracted: Hours added or removed through strategic rules and manual adjustments.Added shows 5.

  3. Scheduled: Hours consumed by assigned and unassigned jobs.Scheduled shows 5.

  4. Capacity result: The remaining open hours.Dashboard showing labor statistics with open hours and percentage details highlighted.

Configure and save template views in Capacity Reporting Advanced Mode

Configure and save template views

Use View Settings to configure how the Capacity Report displays data and to save those configurations as reusable templates. Templates reduce repetitive setup and let you share standardized report views across your organization.

To open View Settings, click the Settings icon on the Advanced Reporting page.

Hierarchy setup interface showing Business Unit and Job Type options with settings icon.

Set display options

The Basic Information section of the View Settings flyout shows the template name, hierarchy, time frame, and filter applied to the report. Below this context, two toggles control what information appears on the report:

  • Display strategic rules impact: Set this toggle to on to show the effect of strategic rules on capacity calculations. This toggle is off by default.

  • Display manual adjustments impact: Set this toggle to on to show the effect of manual adjustments on capacity calculations. This toggle is on by default.

    Settings for displaying strategic rules and manual adjustments impact in a template.

Select a capacity focus

The Capacity Focus section controls what the report measures and how cells are colored. Select one of the following focus types:

  • Open Time: Review aggregated open time considering all existing commitments. All scheduled jobs and events get included in all relevant dimensions.

  • Scheduled Work: Review scheduled workload per dimension for goal attainment tracking.

  • Blended: Aggregated open time with a more optimistic approach to unassigned work.

A Preview section appears below the focus options. It shows a live example of how report cells look based on your selection, including capacity labels such as Labor, Added / Subtracted, and Scheduled.

Selecting 'Open Time' option to review job scheduling and capacity management.

Choose a density level

The Density Level section controls how many time-range columns appear on the report. Select one of the following options:

  • Compact: Maximum time range with up to 8 columns.

  • Default: Balanced report with up to 5 columns.

  • Sparse: Optimize for simplicity with up to 4 columns.

Select a density level that matches your screen size and the level of detail you want to see at once.

User selects the default density level option in a settings interface.

Save a template

After configuring your display options, capacity focus, and density level, save your settings as a template so you can quickly reapply them in future sessions.

At the bottom of the View Settings flyout, click one of the following save options:

  • Save as my Default: Save the current configuration as your personal default view. This view loads automatically each time you open Capacity Report.

  • Save as org’s default: Save the current configuration as a default view for your organization. This view loads automatically each time you or a team member open Capacity Reporting.

  • Save new template for self: Save the current configuration as an optional view that only you can select.

  • Save new template for org: Save the current configuration as an optional view that anyone in your organization can select.

  • Update existing template: Apply any changes you’ve made while already using a template.

    Options for saving a template, including default and organizational settings.

    Note: Saving a template for your organization requires the Edit Adaptive Capacity Settings permission.

Apply a saved template

To apply a saved template, open the View Settings flyout and expand the Saved Templates section. A list of available templates appears, each displaying its capacity focus, adjustment visibility, filter, hierarchy, and time frame at a glance.

Click Apply on the template you want to use. The report updates to reflect the template's settings.

User interface showing saved templates with an option to apply a selected template.

Tip: The template marked (Current) indicates the configuration that is applied to the report.

Manually adjust capacity in Capacity Reporting Advanced Mode

Manual adjustments allow you to increase and decrease capacity based on specific, one-off needs. This allows you to efficiently control the mix of incoming jobs and optimize capacity based on your resources.

For example, it's a busy day and even though it's already the afternoon you anticipate more demand to come for one of your business units (BUs). In this case, you can hover your BU in the report and add hours to it.

To adjust capacity, hover over a cell and click or . You can adjust the lowest hierarchy cells in the report in one-hour increments. For example:

  • If there are three hierarchies, you can adjust the lowest hierarchy. Dashboard displaying job types, labor statistics, and scheduling for leaky faucet tasks.

  • If there is only one hierarchy, you can adjust the whole report. User interface showing open hours and a button to increase a value.

Adjustments impact the number of hours available for booking and are shown in the Added/Subtracted icon on the cell.

User interface showing open hours, user count, and a highlighted add button.

When you adjust a cell, related cells might also be impacted. For example:

  • If you add one hour of capacity to a technician's 8:00 AM–12:00 PM arrival window, all attributes the technician falls into—such as business unit, trade, and so on—will have one hour added as well. Technician Cody D's labor hours and added tasks for plumbing installations are displayed.

  • If you add two hours to a business unit's 8:00 AM–12:00 PM arrival window, and then add a lower hierarchy of technicians, the two hours you added are applied to all the technicians that fall under this business unit. Capacity overview showing overbooked hours and available slots for business units. Capacity overview showing overbooked and fully booked statuses for technicians and business units.

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