The FishWare 5 Week Guide Calendar displays Guided
Fishing Trip information for a 35 day period. On
scheduled days the background of the day will
indicate basic information about the trip and the
contents of the day will indicate trip details.
Each day can contain the trip information for up to
2 Customers. Background colors are used to help
describe the length of a trip or a general starting
time. Yellow and Red backgrounds are important as
they represent a reservation or combination of
Fishing reservations that needs more configuration
on the part of the Lodge. Additional detailed
information on understanding the 5 Week Guide
Calendar is listed below the image. Also, the Guide
Schedule Forward, which is an additional report, can
contain additional trip information.
Each customer reservation (typical
maximum of 2) is generally 3 lines long, the first
Line contains important trip information, the second
identifies the customer so that if you have fished
with that customer before you will have an idea of
what the customer's interests are and the third line
defines the trip Starting Time (optional with the
Lodge).
Line 1 Part 1 - Example F
GC
F/W F2
1st Character 'F'
F -
Full Day
M - Morning
A -
Afternoon
E - Evening
N - Night
O - Overnight
Line1 Part 2 - 'GC
F/W' - Guides Choice Float/Wade
The second part of the first line
describes the type of trip, this may be a specific
fishing venue or a more general description that
allows the Lodge and the Guide some flexibility to
decide at a later time the actual location of the
trip.
Line 1 Part 3 'F2'
The third part of the first Line
defines the number of Guided Anglers for the
Reservation.
On occasion, the information needed
to display the customer information is too large to
fit onto 1 line, in this case part of the text may
wrap to the next line. In this situation, it is
recommended that you consult your Guide Schedule
Forward report or call the lodge and speak with
lodge staff.
The second line provides the name of
the customer. If you keep a record of past trips
with customers, this information may help you to
better prepare for the trip.
The third line provides the starting
time for the trip. For some Lodges, this may be
consistent from day to day and week to week and
there is no need to specify a starting time, so this
is optional for the Lodge.
Red and Yellow backcolors indicate
Critical trip information is missing or
misconfigured!
Background colors are used to
identify certain useful information about the trips
for the day. As only 1 color can be displayed at a
time, a system of priorities is used. As an
example, a red background indicates that too many
Anglers are scheduled for the Trip type. In this
case, the color would be used to specify a critical
situation that needs to be resolved before the trip.
A Yellow background indicates a trip or trips that
don't have all the necessary details or that two
different trip types are scheduled for the Guide.
You cannot Guide on 2 different rivers at the same
time, so all Scheduled trips for the day should be
of the same Trip Type. Additionally, when Guiding
for more than 1 Angler it is important that Anglers
know each other and come from the same 'Group'. In
FishWare, a Group refers to 2 or more anglers that
are part of a family or work group that socialize,
share rooms and fish together.
Red Borders indicate a meal or
other customer specific issue that the Guide needs
to know about
Guides often are responsible for
customer meals during the day, but for some
customers there may be medical conditions that
prohibit certain foods or simply guest food
preferences. If the day has a Red Border the Guide
needs to call the lodge to get the specific details
about what needs to be done to properly manage the
trip.
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