Show off your displays!

Going to start off this thread with one of my frustrations and a fix for it!

Whenever we refreshed the schedule board it would grab the manager name of the last refreshed person if we had multiple schedule boards up. Pretty quickly we would would have the same Manager on the board multiple times rather than 3 separate managers.

Here is how we fixed that!

Step 1: Open Firefox Profile Manager

1. Close Firefox Completely:

   • Make sure all Firefox windows are closed.

2. Launch Profile Manager:

   • Press Win + R to open the Run dialog.
   • Type:

     firefox.exe -p

   • Press Enter.

3. Profile Manager Opens:

   • You’ll see a list of profiles and options to create new ones.

Step 2: Create New Profiles

1. Click "Create Profile":

   • Follow the prompts and give your new profile a unique name (e.g., "Work", "Personal").

2. Repeat for Each Profile:

   • Create as many profiles as needed.

Step 3: Create Desktop Shortcuts for Convenience

1. Create a New Shortcut:

   • Right-click on the desktop and select New > Shortcut.
   • In the location field, type:

     "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -p "ProfileName" -no-remote

     Replace "ProfileName" with your profile’s name.

2. Name the Shortcut:

   • Give it a name like "Firefox - Work" or "Firefox - Personal".

3. Repeat for Each Profile:

   • Make shortcuts for all profiles you want to access.

You can then open each profile and log into Aspire independently and they will not impact each other.

A second problem we had was making the display full screen while keeping it windowed in firefox. Here is the fix!

1. Access about:config:

   • In the address bar, type about:config and press Enter.
   • Click the button to accept the risk and proceed.

2. Search for Zoom Settings:

   • In the search bar, type zoom.

3. Modify the Settings:

   • Look for the preference browser.zoom.siteSpecific. Ensure its value is set to true. If it's set to false, double-click it to toggle it to true.

​@vladryabyy I like your graph of Maintenance Hours Variance by Crew Leader! Does each bar represent a different Crew Leader?

It does! This report goes all the way from the Branch Level down to Individual Work Tickets.

Hello! I also like your graph of Maintenance Hours Variance by Crew Leader, I am new to using aspire and would love to know how to build it.

​@madvocate That is actually a custom build using Power BI and the Aspire API. Unfortunately it is not something you can build in Aspire itself.

Here’s one I like breaking down client contract growth YoY into new clients added, existing client growth, and lost clients:

Our schedule board display monitor that we are going to put up in the warehouse. The console is open showing the auto-scroll and keep-alive script I threw together to stop Aspire from timing out and to slowly move the board up and down. The suggested method of using a web extension to prevent timeouts was not functioning how I wanted, so I took matters into my own hands!

​@Nick that is slick! I am going to steal your scrolling and combine that with my script that I am using with Autohotkey to switch between desktops.

Hi Nick,

Thank you so much for sharing your script. I run it on our end for two days, it works great!!!

Now I’m facing another challenge how to automatically select all the managers to display all the routes and loop the mangers.

Appreciate your help and solution.

Best,

​@SoboYiW we fixed that by using multiple browser profiles (one for each manager)! If you use the same browser profile for each person then when it refreshes it grabs the cookies from another window. If you use a separate profile it lives in its own little box.

Has anyone found a Chrome extension that will auto scroll the schedule board? 

Please check Nick’s response. ​@BrennaB , he provides a solution there. (27 days ago)

We hired a developer to upgrade the extension a bit. So it can auto scroll with different speed. And auto switch from one route manager to anther route manager. The manager interval can be set as 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 20 minutes as well.

​@SoboYiW I tried Nick’s solution - and at least a dozen others - with no success. Is it possible that other extensions are interfering?

Hi Brenna, it works great at our end when applying Nick’s script into a chrome extension package. I tried it out with ChatGPT. (I’m not a coding person).
Maybe try to remove your other extensions and test again?

​@Nick That code works great!!