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title: "Site Plan Designer"
space: "Industrial Relations Documentation"
url: "http://www.buff0k.co.za/ir-docs/site-plan-designer"
updated: "2026-08-17"
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# Site Plan Designer

A **Site Plan** is a reusable, dated staffing template - group headings, slots, and reporting lines - that doesn't reference any specific Employee or Asset yet. It's the design; a **Site Organogram** is the real, site-specific instance built from it.

![The Site Plan Designer: two group headings (Site Management, Earthmoving), each with Designation slots, a drag handle, and a duplicate button](/files/ir-site-plan-designer978f74.png)

## Structure

- **Group Headings** - the major sections of the plan (e.g. Site Management, Earthmoving), each pointing at a **Shift Design** for its shift columns.
- **Slots** - one row per position the plan calls for, within a heading. A slot is either:
  - a **Designation** slot (a role that needs filling, e.g. Site Manager), or
  - an **Asset** slot (an Asset Category that needs an operator, e.g. an Excavator).
- **Reporting Lines** - who reports to whom, drawn between slots.

## Duplicating and reordering rows

Every slot has a **duplicate** button (⧉) that clones it with a fresh identity, inserted right after the original - the fast way to add several near-identical rows (e.g. three more Excavator Operator slots) without rebuilding each one from scratch. Rows can also be **dragged** by their handle (⠿) to reorder within a heading, or across into a different heading entirely - both the row's position and its heading membership update immediately.

Next: **Site Organogram**, to turn this template into a real site structure.