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Dispatch on a phone or tablet

Run the day from a phone — switching views from the title, tapping a job then a crew to assign it, and the Crew Schedule's bar at the foot of the screen.

3 min readChecked October 12, 2026
DispatcherOwner & admin

On a phone or a small tablet, Dispatch fills the whole screen and works by tapping instead of dragging crews.

Getting around

  • Dispatch opens straight on the tab chosen with the gear (the board, unless you chose another) — see Open Dispatch on the tab you want.
  • The bar at the top shows the view you're on, the branch (if you have more than one) and the date with its arrows.
  • To switch views, tap the view's name at the top (it reads Switch view underneath). The list has Dashboard, Job Assignments (when your company uses it), Crew Schedule, Dispatch and — while box delivery is on — Box Deliveries, with its red number of deliveries to schedule. The view you're on is ticked; tap another to open it.
  • ★ Default, just before the ×, sets which view Dispatch opens on — the same choice as the gear on a computer, kept with your name on every device. The star is filled when the view you're on is your default. Tap it and pick a view (the one you're on says this view).
  • The × on that bar leaves Dispatch and takes you back to the screen you were on before (or the Dashboard).
Switching views on a phone
Switching views on a phone

Put a crew on a job

  1. On the Dispatch view, tap a job.
  2. A panel slides in from the right, headed with the job and Open order, listing the day's crews under Assign Crew — "(Select the order and then click on the crew)".
  3. Tap a crew. MoveBoard asks first — for example "Assign Crew 1 (Alex Sandoval, Gustavo Guzman · Truck 26FT #135) to #217483 Alex Sherman?" — with Cancel as the default.
  4. Tap Assign to put the crew on the job; the panel closes. Cancel changes nothing and leaves the panel open.

The crew cards in the panel don't drag, so you can swipe the list up and down freely. If the crew is already on that job, MoveBoard says so and changes nothing. Tapping a crew's order numbers (under Orders:) never assigns it. To open the panel again on the same job, tap the job again.

Tap outside the panel (or press Esc on a keyboard) to close it without choosing. Open order opens the order window over the board.

To pick people one by one, switch the panel to Assign Personnel and fill the spots as on a computer — see Assign trucks and crew.

Move a job

Press and drag the six-dot handle at a card's top-left corner — it's always shown on touch screens. A swipe anywhere else on the board scrolls it, so you won't move a job by accident. In the same way, a job is made longer or shorter only by the small grip in the middle of its right edge. The small arrow at a card's top right opens its order.

The board is drawn a little smaller on a phone so more of the day fits.

The Crew Schedule

  • Each spot on a crew card is a list you pick a name from, with ⋮ beside it for Confirm, Decline, Resend and Remove.
  • A bar at the foot of the screen has Send Notification, how many crews the day has, and the round + to add a crew.
  • Who's free shows as counts across the top (foremen, drivers, helpers).

Job Assignments

Send to all customers is the envelope icon next to the reload button. The print menu isn't on this view.

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