Trip Page - Understanding the List & Gantt Views

This document touches on the following features related to the new improvements to the Trips page:

  • Identifying the 3 Viewing Modes
  • List View of for trips
  • Vertical Gantt View for trips
  • Horizontal Gantt View for trips
  • Understanding the Gantt Tiles
  • Functions available on the trip's gantt tile
  • Filters available on the Trip Page

Trips Viewing Modes

The Manifest page has always been the place for users to go to see the trips that have been build in the system. The default view is the Trip List view which provides a tiled view of each trip. Recent updates to the Trip page have made multiple gantt views available to alongside the Trip List view. These gantt views will provide much easier to understand views of the callsign schedules, provide visual indicators to identify underutilized legs of those trips, as well as looking for merging and sharing opportunities between assets during planning.

There are now 3 different views for users to view the trip schedule:

1. List View - The List View is the default view that users are normally used to seeing when they land on the Trips page. This button can be used to toggle back to the list view from the gantt views. The List View is where you can quickly manage the passengers and cargo placed on the trip manifest via the side bar on the left.

2. Vertical Gantt View - The vertical gantt view provides the user with all of the callsigns and trips that are scheduled each day in the date range set. These trips will be listed with the time intervals for the day across the top of the gantt and each day in the range is listed below.

3. Horizontal Gantt View - The horizontal gantt view provides the user with a callsign schedule that is scrolled left to right to see the trips for each day in the date range. Rather than the days of the range being listed one below the other, this view will allows users to have the rows being the fixed callsigns and following them throughout the date range set.

Trips List View

This is the default view when users are brought to the Trips Page. The Trips List View provides list of all planned trips as tiles. These trip tiles provide different action buttons that can be used to manage the manifest in one way or another. The tiles also display the trip summary information and the leg level details can be seen just by clicking the route on the trip tile.

List View Tips:

  • Best view when you are managing the passengers who are being placed on the manifest for the trips in the system
  • Gain screen space while looking at the Plan information for a trip by toggling the new pinning/unpinning of the left menu bar
  • Pop out the trips Plan Page into a new browser tab via page pop out icon on the top right of the trips tile next to the trip notes icon so you don't lose your place

Pro Tips:

  • Popping out a trip's Plan page opens a new tab with a URL specific to that trip's plan page. This tab can then be refreshed over and over as edits to the manifest are being made, check-ins are being created by arriving passengers, and weights are totaled up. Each time the page is refreshed, it will reload that trips plan page.
  • Refreshing the web browser from the Trips List Views will result in the entire Trips page being reloaded and drop the user back to the List View of the current day. To update the information on the trip tiles to display current information for the trip tiles without losing your filters set in the gantt view, simply hit the magnifying glass to the right of the search bar.

Vertical Gantt View

The vertical gantt layout is great for those users who work within the callsign schedule on a day to day basis. The way the view is built places the 24:00 day as the set width of the gantt view, with the callsigns schedule for each date being stacked vertically. Opening the Vertical Gantt view with the time interval set to 15 minutes or 30 minutes would be valuable to manage individual days worth of flights. This provides the viewer the ability to compare the scheduled start times across a flight over a set time range.

Logistics planners who are looking at the callsign schedule over a time horizon rather than a day could also fine value in this layout. By setting a date range in this view, the gantt will automatically stack together only callsigns that have a trip for each day vertically. Thus, it allows the viewer to see the scheduled demand for each callsign each day and compare them against the time of the day.

Vertical Gantt Tips:

  • Provides the most detail on the gantt tiles for the trip when the 15 minute, 30, minute, or 1 hour interval is used
  • Most convenient view to monitor the trips as they happen throughout the day
  • Only displays callsigns that are scheduled for the individual day
  • Helps compare scheduled trip times for multiple days in a range

Pro Tips:

  • Refreshing the web browser from the Gantt Views will result in the entire Trips page being reloaded and drop the user back to the List View of the current day. To update the information on the gantt to display current information for the trip tiles without losing your filters set in the gantt view, simply hit the magnifying glass to the right of the search bar.

Horizontal Gantt View

The horizontal gantt view is very similar to the vertical gantt view with one big exception; the date range selected will span the top of the gantt with the callsigns being fixed rows throughout. This view will be beneficial to those users who are looking to plan the movements of the fleet over a date range. By having the callsigns fixed on a single row across the entire period, users can easily follow the callsign's schedule over the planning horizon. This view is also the most useful when working with motor vessel trips in the Marine space as it allows the schedule to span over multiple days smoothly.

Horizontal Gantt Tips:

  • Best view when using the gantt to plan future trips and schedules
  • The 2 hour, 3, hour, and 6 hour time intervals help reduce the size of the trip tiles and give more room to fit multiple days
  • Gives the user the overall trip schedule for each aircraft over the course of a day
  • Helps understand the schedule for specific callsigns over a date range

Pro Tips:

  • If you are looking to use this horizontal view to compare a date range, try stretching the browser window across multiple monitors. Stretching the gantt across multiple monitors will provide a much wider range of dates and times on the page at once.
  • Refreshing the web browser from the Gantt Views will result in the entire Trips page being reloaded and drop the user back to the List View of the current day. To update the information on the gantt to display current information for the trip tiles without losing your filters set in the gantt view, simply hit the magnifying glass to the right of the search bar.

Understanding the Gantt Tiles

Large Gantt Tiles

The large trip tiles will usually appear when working in the smaller time intervals such as 15 or 30 minutes. These tiles will display as much of the detail information it can while hiding the data points as they get squeezed out of view. The large trip tiles include:

  • Check Warning icon when triggered
  • Trip Name
  • Trips Cost Estimates (clicking the trip cost displays a breakdown of the cost per seat for each leg of the flight estimates)*
  • Trip Status
  • Trip Notes
  • Trip Route with visual indication of underutilized legs on the trip
  • Planned Departure and Return times
  • Checked In Passengers vs Total Passengers
  • Used Payload vs Available Payload
  • Number of Passengers on First and Last Legs

*The Trip Cost element is behind a permission set by your Helipass administrator on an as needed basis.

Clicking on the bottom gray bar that displays the trip route will open up the detailed leg view for the selected trip. This detailed view will give a further breakdown of passengers, cargo, and times for each leg of the trip.

Small Gantt Tiles

The small gantt tiles come in handy when trying to view the larger time intervals like the 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6 hours over a large date range. When viewing the schedule like this, smaller tiles make it easier to see all information regarding the callsign schedule at the sacrifice of information regarding each individual trip.

The trip tile will have most of the details provided in the large tiles removed. The information remaining on the small tile is:

  • Outbound passenger count
  • Abbreviations for location on trip route
  • If tile is to small to display all the locations on the route, it will instead switch to identifying the number of locations on the route
  • Visual indicators on the route information regarding if trips are being underutilized
  • Inbound passenger count

Clicking on the trips gantt tile will open up the detailed leg view for the selected trip. This detailed view will give the detailed breakdown for the trip and each of its legs.

Understanding the Underutilized Trip Indicators

Each Helipass tenant has the ability to set specific payload and/or seat utilization percentages that trigger the underutilized warnings on the gantt tiles. When the leg of a trip goes below that threshold, the offshore location the the trip is arriving at or departing from will be highlighted yellow with the respective arriving or departing arrow also being highlighted (when viewing in the large tiles). At a glance, the viewer can potentially determine the location and specific leg of the journey causing the trigger.

By monitoring trips in route to your location, as well as trips to neighboring locations, these visual indicators can help alert users of potential sharing opportunities to save cost and reduce trip time.

Functions and Filters

Functions on Gantt Tiles

When the user right clicks on any of the trip tiles on the gantt, they will be presented with a menu of various actions that can be done. These will look familiar because they are some of the same functions available on the Trip List view already.

  • Edit Trip - Selecting this option will open up the Edit/Actions window for that trip
  • Copy Trip - This will open up the Create Trip window with the information fields from the selected trip already entered
  • Delete Trip - Selecting this will delete the trip off of the schedule
  • Manage Manifest - This will open a new tab in the browser with the Plan page for that specific trip so the manifested passengers can be viewed and edited
  • Print Manifest - Gives the print options for the selected manifest
  • Gantt Controls - Provides a quick overview of the different options available to the user on the gantt as well as some keyboard shortcuts that can be used while navigating the gantt trips
  • Create Trip - Right clicking on a scheduled trip that has not been created yet can be done so by right clicking on the virtual trip's tile

Trip Page Filters

The Trips page allows each individual user to setup default filters to be applied when they land on the Trips page. The filters that can be set and saved on the Trip page can be found to the right of the search bar area. This will open up a popup window that allows the user to apply and clear filters as well as save them as the defaults.

On this top menu, there are other quick set menus that can be applied like Service Area, Trip Status, Time Interval used on the gantts, the Trip Date rage, and to show unmanifested trips or not. There is also a search bar that can be used to search trip names that appear in the date range. The Trip Date range and Time Interval filters are unique because they are not in the filters popup window. However, the Time Interval can be saved as the default by having it set in the filter before going into the popup and hitting the Save As Default button.

Take note of the new Dates filter that appears on both the filter popup window and the filter bar. The new date filters will allow users to filter in or out specific days in the selected date range. The can be useful to filter out all of the trips for specific days that you do not wish to see at that time as you compare other options. The Dates filter, as well as the Date Range are saved as defaults.

Filtering Tips:

  • Set up default filters that only display the service area, locations, or callsigns that your role cares about
  • Filter down to only see your Home and Favorite locations associated with your User Profile whom you may normally share trips with

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