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Work the roster

Show everyone which station you're working right now, and run rounds through the roster capturing comments and traffic. The working cursor is what turns a list of check-ins into a net people can follow.

Prerequisites

  • A live session with check-ins on it.
  • The NCS role on that session.

Steps

Step 1: Mark the working station

Focus or select a roster row and press w, or use the inline set-working control.

At most one station is the working station at a time. Every viewer — including account-less ones — sees the working cursor move to it live: a coral left bar, a wash across the row, and the label "Working now".

The keycap legend and tooltips make w and n discoverable, so you don't have to remember them.

Step 2: Complete the station

When you've finished with a station for this round, mark it worked. The row drops to reduced opacity with a green tick.

Where the row then sits depends on the ordering mode (Step 3). By default it keeps its position — the roster order stays stable, so nobody loses their place. With Sink worked stations turned on, it moves down to the worked group instead, and everyone's roster moves with it.

Step 3: Sink worked stations out of the way

On a long net, most of the roster is people you've already worked. Turn on Sink worked stations and every station you finish drops below the ones still waiting — automatically, as you work them. You only turn it on once; it stays on for the rest of the session, and it stays on for whoever takes over the net control position from you.

The station you're working now always stays in the upper group with the stations still waiting, never in the worked group — including on a second round, when you come back to someone you have already worked. The upper group keeps its order, so the next station to call is the highest one in it you have not worked yet. If you also order by precedence (Step 5), precedence applies within each group — an emergency you've already worked does not jump back above the stations still waiting.

The worked group collapses to a count — "Worked 7". Click it (or tab to it and press Enter) to expand the stations inside; collapsing and expanding is yours alone and changes nothing for anyone else.

Turning the switch back off leaves the roster where it is; it just stops moving worked stations from then on.

Step 4: Run the next round

Revisit stations in check-in order to take comments and traffic. Rounds are repeatable as many times as the net needs, and prior notes are never lost when you come back around.

Step 5: Capture notes

Record per-station notes on an individual entry through its detail modal, and net-level notes on the session as a whole.

A per-station entry has two note fields, and the difference matters:

  • Staff note (operators only) — private to your logging team. It never appears on the live page, signed in or not, and never on the public stream.
  • Public note (everyone watching) — shown on the roster row to every viewer, including someone with no account. Write it for the people following the net.

Notes you wrote before the two fields existed are all staff notes. Nothing you had already written became public, and nothing was cleared — the field you have always typed into is the private one, and it is now labelled that way. The public note starts empty on every entry.

The net-level note is a separate field again, and it stays operator-only.

All of them end up in the summary and the exports.

Step 6: Reorder when you need to

Reorder the roster when the working order should differ from check-in order — most often to run precedence order on a traffic net. Ordering by precedence works Emergency, then Priority, then Routine, preserving stable order within each tier. With Sink worked stations on, that ordering happens inside each group.

Verify

Open the session as a signed-out viewer in a second window. The working cursor sits on the same station you selected, and moves within about two seconds when you move it.

With Sink worked stations on, that second window shows the same order you see: mark a station worked on the console and watch it drop down the signed-out viewer's list too. The order is shared; only the collapsed/expanded state of the worked group is per-viewer.

What participants see

A participant whose entry is next up sees the your-turn indicator on their own row — a cyan left bar, a You chip, and "You're next up". Which station that is follows the ordering you have on. With Sink worked stations on, next up is the top of the unworked group — which can sit above the working station once you come back to a station in a later round. With manual ordering, next up is the first unworked station below the working one; a station above it was passed on purpose. Account-less viewers see the working-station highlight and where they would fall in the order.

Everyone watching — signed in or not — also sees, per station: the staying status, the precedence, the traffic count, and the public note. That is the same set on the operator console, on the live page with an account, and on the live page with none. Someone following a traffic net can now see which station is holding emergency traffic rather than only where it sits in the order.

They do not see the signal report, the operator's name, location or grid, corrections, who logged the entry, or the staff note. Watching is still read-only: no viewer without the right role gets an edit control, on any surface.