Chronoshift

What this page is for

The layout

• Topbar: a date picker, a Scenes ▾ menu (saved moments you or a teammate bookmarked), a Map/Board view toggle, an Orders button that shows or hides the unassigned-order markers on the map (turn it off when you only want to watch drivers), a focus chip (shows when you're focused on a specific driver or order), and a completeness percentage (how much of the picture at this instant is backed by real data).

• Stage: the map (driver positions, routes) in Map view, or a read-only snapshot of the Dispatch Board as it looked at your current time in Board view (a picture of that moment, nothing is clickable). Board view stops at the event ticker's edge, so the ready and due columns stay visible with the ticker open.
• Snapshot strip: a thin strip docked under the topbar (never floating over the stage) with the counts at your current time - active, unassigned, late, in transit, drivers online - a GPS exact-vs-reconstructed readout, and a bell that opens alerts, context notes and source freshness. Colours match the timeline legend.

• MANIFEST @ T: when you focus a driver, a side panel shows exactly what they were carrying at that instant - what's not yet picked up, what's in hand, what's delivered - in the same phone-style layout as the driver app. An order joins it when it was dispatched to that driver, so an earlier moment does not show work they had not been given yet.

• Ticker: a running list of events near your current time.
• Transport bar (bottom): the scrubber track with a legend in its top-left corner - the lines are the board's shape through the day (active, unassigned, late, in transit all on ONE shared scale, whose maximum is printed top-right; overrides dashed on its own scale) and the triangles along the bottom are event markers - plus Prev/Play-Pause/Next buttons, a speed selector (1/10/50/100x), zoom controls, a clip-status readout, the clock (in your organization's zone), driver and order filter pickers, Copy link, and Save scene.

Common tasks

1. Jump to a specific moment. Drag the scrubber, or click a marker on the track.
2. Watch it unfold. Click Play (or press Space) to advance the clock at your chosen speed; Pause stops it. Prev/Next (or the , and . keys) jump to the previous or next event marker. Left/Right arrows nudge the playhead; hold Shift for a bigger step.
3. Focus on one driver or order. Pick drivers in the transport bar's driver picker and the map shows only them (clear the chips to get the whole fleet back), or arrive via a "Replay in Chronoshift" link from Order Detail, a route stop's popup, or the Dispatch Board's right-click History submenu - each drops you in at that entity's moment, focused.

1. See what a driver was carrying. Focus a driver and the MANIFEST @ T panel appears on its own; it hides again when the focus is cleared (press Esc).
2. Compare against the board. Click the Board button in the topbar to see the Dispatch Board exactly as it looked at your current time (read-only); click Map to go back.
3. Mark a clip. Press [ at the playhead to set the clip's start, ] to set its end (or press x / click the ✕ in the clip-status readout to clear). A complete clip loops playback between its two points.
4. Save a scene. Click Save scene - if you have a complete clip set, the save form starts from that window; otherwise it captures your current moment. Give it a name and save it to the Scenes menu.
5. Reopen or remove a saved scene. Click Scenes ▾, pick one to load it (this also sets the clip to that scene's window), or delete it from the same menu (you are asked to confirm the delete). Scenes are shared with everyone in your organization who can open Chronoshift (dispatcher and up).
6. Share the exact moment you're looking at. Click Copy link - it copies a URL that restores your date, time, driver and order filters, focus, and clip. A link with a complete clip zooms to the clip and starts playing on its own when opened.
7. Zoom the timeline. Press +/- to zoom in/out around the playhead, or 0 to reset to the full day.

Things that confuse people

• The clock is always in your organization's own timezone (the suffix tells you which). Times follow your clock setting: 24-hour or 12-hour, set on your Account page.
• Completeness under 100% doesn't mean something is broken - it means the reconstruction at that instant is leaning on the nearest saved snapshot rather than a fully dense record. Replaying a day older than the detailed-history window shows a reduced-fidelity banner.
• Board view is a snapshot, not a live board - nothing you click there dispatches, reassigns, or edits anything.
• The board is checked every minute from 6am to 10pm in your organization's own time zone and every five minutes overnight (until 12 September 2026 that window was fixed to Eastern time). A snapshot is stored whenever something on it changed, confirmed at every check in between, and at least every 15 minutes even when nothing did. A snapshot always holds the whole board: the storage caps sit far above any real day (about eight times the busiest day on record), and if one were ever hit the server logs it as an error rather than quietly storing a partial board.
• Arrow keys pan the map instead of scrubbing time whenever your focus is inside the map itself; click outside the map first if the scrubber seems unresponsive to arrow keys.
• Keyboard shortcuts don't fire while you're typing in a text field, date picker, or dropdown - click elsewhere on the page first.
• [ and ] alone set clip points; holding Shift with them changes playback speed instead - it's easy to hit the wrong one.

Related

• Command Center
• open Chronoshift