This is a walkthrough/demo of Gather’s new People Profiles feature (from a YouTube video by William Doyle MRICS). The speaker explains the problem with large flat dropdown lists and shows a staging demo where people are full-featured objects: a dedicated People section with unlimited searchable lists, editable person records (name, active/inactive, attributes), role and supplier management (including clashes and project-specific roles), and propagation of chosen defaults into on-site records and allocations. The feature is described as rolling out over the next few weeks.
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Foreign. From Gather. Today we'll talk about our new release, which is People Profiles. First up, let's talk about what the problem is. The current configuration. So we currently have lots of projects, we have lots and lots of people. So as Gather's grown and become more popular, we start to see lots and lots of labor, suppliers, names, even fatigue references. And we've got huge, huge lists. That's fine. But we want to do a little bit more with people now. We want to be able to enhance that profile and make them objects, not just dropdowns in a table. So let's go to our staging environment, have a look at that. So we've got our own dedicated people section. Now. We can still access the people here in the settings, so the role type, suppliers and the attributes that you can add. But more importantly, we've got a dedicated list of people. So you can see we've got three people. There's no limit here. I expect there to be hundreds, if not thousands in here. For some workspaces we can add in new people or today I'm going to look through an existing person. So here's Joe. So with Joe, we can edit his name and attributes. I've got the right permission to do that. I'm the workspace administrator. I can make him active or inactive. So maybe he's left the company and we're not going to get rid of his profile, just mark it as inactive tracking for fatigue or not. It's as easy as that. We can also add in attributes, so things like competencies could put dates on or values in here, whatever's applicable to you. So here's an example. What I like the most is that we can start adding roles. So this is the kind of foundations running rates and other information that you might want to add. But also this is making it easier for someone on site. So I can edit the roles, I can add a new role. Maybe he's also working as an operative and works for Railtext Solutions as well. He's got two suppliers. We can see here there's a clash, so any clashes we will obviously remove and we can start to see that works across multiple fields at any one time. We can make it project specific if you want to do that. So on this project you can only have that role, which is quite useful, especially you've got specific rates and things like that on certain schemes. So I'll save that and then we can start to see those roles available. We can look at those that are archived and unarchived, so we can start to build up that profile and how it changes over time. So list of people unlimited here you can search, you can filter by status all the good stuff. Well how does it affect that person on site? So let's go to an example record. So look at this record that Chris has created here. It's in draft so usual things, nothing's much has changed here. We were moving to people to align with kind of a better description in most forms of contract you can see here, George is already in. We've got the times and all the things that go with it to add someone new. Well I can have Phoebe operative and starts to work that out. It makes that decision making process much much easier. If that person's only got one role and one supplier it will auto fill that works its way all the way through to allocation. As you imagine where we start to allocate people's time against activities and very clearly mark the profile with ID as well. So have a look it will roll out over the next few weeks. Have a look at the people section and start adding the profiles and see what you think. Thank you. You.
