Gigs

Work you can claim, work you have claimed, and what the groups you belong to are building.

Where this lives: Manage > Gigs

What this is

Gigs is the work board. A job is a piece of work somebody posted. Claiming one puts your name on it.

Some jobs pay cash, some pay points, and some are volunteer work that mints a Thanks voucher.

What you see

The title reads Gigs Hub. Above it sits the place you are viewing in, or a line about offering what you can and asking for what you need.

Two buttons sit at the top right of the middle column, above everything arrangeable. They read Offer a service and Post a job.

The wide middle column holds four panels.

Available work lists the open jobs you could claim. A search box narrows it by title. Three rows of controls narrow it further. The first row is the kind of pay: All work, Fixed price, Hourly and Volunteer. The second row is when: Any time, Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month and Upcoming. The third is a list of your groups, starting with All groups. Each card carries a Claim button.

Work near you pins the jobs and projects on this page on a globe.

My jobs lists the work you have already claimed. When you have none, it says so.

Discover projects in my groups lists what your groups are building.

The narrow right column holds Current projects, which is your open tasks across every project, and Waiting on your reply.

The page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.

What you can do here

• Look for something to take on. See Find work.
• Put your name on a job. See Claim a job.
• Clock on and off. See Track your time on a job.
• Ask somebody else to do something. See Post a job.
• Offer what you can do. See Offer a service.

How to

Find work

1. Open Gigs under Manage.
2. Find the Available work panel.
3. Type a word in the search box to narrow by title.
4. Press a pay kind: All work, Fixed price, Hourly or Volunteer.
5. Press a when: Any time, Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month or Upcoming.
6. Choose a group from the list, or leave it on All groups.

Claim a job

1. Find the job in the Available work panel.
2. Press Claim on its card.
3. The button changes to Claimed and a note confirms the claim.
4. The job moves into the My jobs panel.

Press Claim again to withdraw your claim.

Track your time on a job

1. Open the job from the My jobs panel.
2. Press the Timer tab.
3. Choose a task, or leave it on the whole job.
4. Press Start.
5. Press Stop when you finish. The period is logged and a note tells you how long it was.

The Time tracker panel on the Dashboard and on Calendar runs the same clock. Starting in one and stopping in the other works.

Post a job

1. Press Post a job at the top of Gigs.
2. Fill in the title, the description and how it is paid.
3. Set how many people may claim it, and any deadline.
4. Save it.

Offer a service

1. Press Offer a service at the top of Gigs.
2. Choose what kind of offering it is.
3. Fill in the details and the price.
4. Save it. You land on the offering you made.

What changes for you

You must be signed in to reach Gigs.

The whole board follows the pill in the top bar. Choosing a place narrows it to that place.

Only jobs that are open or already running, and that still have a free place, appear under Available work. A job with no pay kind is hidden by any specific pay filter. A job with no date is hidden by any specific when filter.

A job's own page carries tabs for About, Tasks, Timer and Stock. Points appears when there is a share to show. Review appears for the people who manage or attest the job. Docs appears for its managers and for the people actively working on it.

Only a job's manager sees the admin panel, with Edit job, Add task, Mark done and Release payment.

Getting paid is two steps by somebody else. A manager presses Mark done, which records the contribution and the cash owed. Then a manager presses Release payment, which attests it and pays it out. The control then reads that it is paid.

A volunteer job mints a Thanks voucher rather than moving cash.

Where this connects

• Wallet is where the money for a finished job arrives.
• Calendar shows a claimed job's deadline as a shift.
• Subgroups and projects explains where a job sits.