Blacking out the day-offs of the factory and mechanics

Hey ​@takwitham,

I don’t think that is possible with the native timeline page layout. However, you might want to consider using Airtable Custom Interfaces. If Omni is giving you a hard time for building it you can always explore the code base provided by Omni and share that with Claude. Do note that once you make changes to such code base you will not be able to make changes via Omni again.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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Also fyi in case it helps. In order to do that, you’ll want to click on the Omni icon, start a new chat and select the Generate a custom element tool.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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Hmm, I don’t think so I’m afraid.  The workarounds I’ve used for this are:

1. Hide the weekends entirely

   

    
   1. This doesn’t help for weekdays when the factory is closed though and so we ended up creating task records for ‘Factory Closed’ so they’d show up in the Timeline
2. Created task records for mechanic days off so it’d show up in the timeline

You could also probably do the Saturday and Sunday one with a Tampermonkey script, but that would need to be installed on every user’s browser and I don’t know how feasible that is.  Here’s an example of something I threw together where I put a grey mask on Saturdays and Sundays:

(The grey mask is in the header and below the horizontal scroll bar currently and would need to be cleaned up, but I just wanted to show you what was possible)

Hey ​@Mike_AutomaticN ,

I haven’t given much to Omni yet as so far I’ve mostly been constructing table structures and automations, but will give it a go to see if there’s any more flexibility to build an interface that’d fit to my purpose.

Thanks for the input!
 

Hi ​@TheTimeSavingCo 

Yes giving it a browser based code probably will not be very feasible in my case it seems.

Also showing days-off as records may not be suitable as it’d compress the area and will not be seen throughout vertically (which may not help the recognisibility).

But thanks for your response anyway, will look into other possibilities as well.

Hey ​@takwitham this might be kind of clunky in terms of experience for workign with it, but I would HIGHLY suggest:

1. Create the initial version with omni, but then
2. Explore the code base (even if you do not understand a single line), copy it and paste it on Claude
3. Prompt claude to make any improvements you might need
4. Copy and paste it on Airtable, replacing your exisitng code base.

You should get far enough doing that! Make sure to reach out if you need any help whilst doing that!
 

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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This is all doable with OMNI in a custom interface. I don’t even think you need to take the code outside of OMNI/Airtable to Claude for more code creation (though it wouldn’t hurt). I’ve seen through a few rounds of iteration that OMNI can build pretty deep interfaces, with very specific customization. I took about 10 minutes to create this version that I attached. below. In my example, this relies on 3 tables (Work Schedules, Days Off, & Position). It is grouping the Work Schedules by Position and drawing grayed-out Time off from the Days Off table records, and keeping them confined to positions. It is auto-graying out weekends with no reference to specific records; just blanket weekend days. 

Hey ​@Mike_AutomaticN and ​@Kevin_DiBenedet ,

Thank you both for the info.

At the moment I don’t have enough time to explore more on either internal or external coding development, especially for me being very new to system development. However I will definitely look more in to Omni capability first as it seems more straight forward and the screen capture of Kevin’s looks like a good step forward being able to see the schedule of the mechanics on the same screen.

Will update you guys once I get to spend some time on it.

Sounds great ​@takwitham keep us posted and let us know if you have any other question!

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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