How to use the rotation planner

Any email on a Singapore public healthcare domain works, or a mainstream personal email such as Gmail or Outlook. The code comes by email, and there is no password.

Everyone shares one demo; Reset the demo starts it afresh, so press it when you are done. The tasks below are in the order a coordinator meets them; the last part is for residents.

A department's line reads, for example, Manpower: 9 to 10 and Duration: 1 to 3 blocks. Add hospital adds a hospital.

The solver never breaks a band. From Home, Curriculum shows what each year group must clear.

Add resident needs a name and a year group, the rest optional, such as a work email. Add another starts the next one.

For Paste residents, press Download the template, fill it in Excel, paste it, check each column's picker, and press the button that adds them (it says how many, for example Add these 12 residents).

Paste past postings takes the past years' postings from a spreadsheet: one row per resident per past year, twelve cells, each a posting or Leave.

Existing residents shows everyone grouped R0, R1, R2 and R3, with their completed and pending postings.

There is an invitation, up to three reminders and the deadline. A date today or earlier asks first, with Send and Cancel. The emails go by themselves on those dates.

The replies line reads, for example, 21 of 30 replied; Not in yet is grouped by year group.

The demo never sends real email; it answers Would have sent. Start a new round sits under the replies line.

For a returning resident, Copy last year's wishes forward offers last year's wishes that were not granted, ticked, to copy into this year.

Residents normally type their own wishes after signing in: see the part for residents.

A draft opens as its table; rename it with the pencil if you like. The dates save as you go.

The palette also has Leave, with Undo and Redo beside it. The solver keeps every box you placed.

The Rules are the curriculum quotas, the manpower bands, the built-in rules, and your own with Add a rule; the scoring numbers are for wishes, fairness and preferences.

The waiting screen says how long it will take. On a real programme a solve can take up to 15 minutes.

Each card shows the score, the wishes granted, the breaches, the manpower, and how many boxes it differs by. A preview shows in dashed boxes, with its analysis: the score, wishes, fairness, rules, departments and residents.

The preview shows the year group changes, the wish points before and after, and who leaves the programme.

Open a filed year to read it or edit it, with its edit history.

The invitation says your rotation wishes for the year are open, and by when to make them. It carries no link. After Send code, type the six-digit code from your email.

Your own page shows your completed postings, what you still need, and Wishes for the coming year, with the date it is open until.

A wish has the specialty, the length, the hospital and the period (any period, a quarter, one block or a run of blocks). Tap a wish to change it, and move it up or down or remove it, at any time. If you were in last year's round, Copy last year's wishes forward offers last year's wishes that were not granted, ticked, to copy into this year.

Each wish is kept as soon as you add it. After the deadline, the page says when the round closed, your list reads only, and it is the one used; for a change then, contact your coordinator.

Residents type their own wishes after signing in; the coordinator never needs to type them for you. Your page shows only your own record.