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title: "Smart Planning (from the Dispatch Panel)"
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### What is Smart Planning?

Smart Planning is an FieldBuddy enterprise feature that allows planners to efficiently plan a work orders in dispatch panel, as well as improve existing schedules

### For who is Smart Planning?

Smart planning is for planners that are performing planning of a work orders in Dispatch panel, or do operation observation of the current schedule of mechanics.

### What are its features?

Smart planning allows you optimise the the schedule of mechanics for certain date range (or individual days) as well as allow to plan selection of work orders into the agenda of mechanics.

It takes into account restrictions of the work orders, such as skills, scheduled period start/end date, locks on the existing appointments and priority.

Read more on its usage here: [https://upperdeck.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FBDOCS/pages/6052118548](https://upperdeck.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FBDOCS/pages/6052118548) 

### Screenshots

![image-20260220-083854.png](media://9045322c-2272-422e-b710-3abc17466350)

![image-20260220-084856.png](media://279c37ee-a816-4bc4-bc7f-97364f396c4a)