Work that runs over several days
Not every job fits in a day. An installation runs a week; a breakdown waits three days for a part; a site survey takes two visits. EyeOnTask handles this two ways, and neither is more correct than the other — pick whichever is less work for the job in front of you.
Option one: one job, held and continued
Section titled “Option one: one job, held and continued”Schedule the job across the whole span, and let the fieldworker hold it at the end of each day and continue it the next morning. It stays a single job from first day to last.
The Scheduler shows this kind of work for what it is: how many days the job runs, and which day it is currently on — so a job on day three of five reads as exactly that, rather than as something that is running late.
What you get: one job code, one running total of time, one completion report, one invoice. Everything about the work sits in one place.
Where it fits: continuous work by the same person or the same crew — an installation, a rewire, a long service — where each day is the same job carrying on rather than a distinct visit.
Option two: one sub job per day
Section titled “Option two: one sub job per day”Create a sub job for each day. The first day is the parent; each following day hangs off it, taking the code with a suffix — HVAC-20, HVAC-20-1, HVAC-20-2.
What you get: each day is a job in its own right. Its own schedule, its own assignment, its own comments, its own completion report and photos. So day two’s account of what was done is separate from day one’s, and either can be read on its own.
Where it fits: work where the days genuinely differ — different people on different days, a gap while a part is on order, or a client who wants to see day-by-day progress.
Reporting and invoicing across the days
Section titled “Reporting and invoicing across the days”Splitting into sub jobs does not mean splitting the paperwork:
- The service report can name every job in the set, so what the client receives reads as one piece of work with its days set out inside it, rather than as several unrelated visits.
- One invoice can cover several jobs. Pull all of the days onto a single invoice and the client is billed once. See invoicing from a job.
Choosing between them
Section titled “Choosing between them”| One held job | Sub job per day | |
|---|---|---|
| Job codes | One | One per day |
| Completion report | One, covering everything | One per day, reported separately |
| Day-by-day comments | Kept together on one job | Kept apart, day by day |
| Scheduler | Shows total days and the current day | Each day appears as its own job |
| Invoice | One | One, covering all the days |
Reach for one held job when it is one continuous piece of work. Reach for sub jobs when each day needs to stand on its own — its own crew, its own report, or its own place in the client’s account of the week.