Event Location Improvements
We're rolling out some large changes to how locations associated with events work, to increase the flexibility offered by the calendar and automatic scheduling.
Prior to this update, events could either be associated with a job or not. Events associated with a job always took place at the job's site address, and non-job events had no location. Some users had to work around this limitation by opening jobs whenever they needed to schedule work at an address, which added admin time, and made job status summaries less useful.
From this update, events themselves have a location, which for all historic events, defaults to the job address, or no address for events without jobs.
This means you can create non-job events with a location, such as for meetings and training, to allow the app to present navigation options.
For job events, you can remove the address from the event, allowing you to schedule in time for calls with customers, or to survey properties online proior to work with software such as Zoom to save on travel time. You're also able to assign a different property to one event, for example, to set an address where keys need to be picked up and returned to in order to access the site's main property.