Hardly any notice is looked at as often as the laundry schedule, and hardly any is wrong as often. It has hung for years, someone has pencilled in a swap, a note about the holidays is stuck over it, and half the calls to the property manager are about who may use it when.
Why this schedule in particular goes out of date
Because it is the one notice residents want to change themselves. A swap between neighbours, a week away, a machine under repair: all of that happens between two visits by the manager, and it happens in ballpoint pen.
After that there are two versions, the one on the paper and the one in people’s heads, and neither is binding. That is the ground the dispute grows on, not the washing machine.
Nobody feels responsible for the schedule once it is up, either. The manager printed it once, the caretaker sees it on every round and leaves it alone because the rota is not his business. When someone moves out, their line stays on the schedule until somebody remembers, and until then the new tenant washes on a day that belongs to another household on paper.
What changes when the schedule is not behind glass
It is current, because a change costs half a minute instead of a trip. Whoever swaps tells the manager, and the schedule in the stairwell is right the same day. There is one version again, and it hangs where everyone passes.
It is also the point where residents start using the screen by themselves. Whoever has tapped the schedule once will see the notice next to it the next time.
How the property manager sets it up
In the portal the laundry schedule is a piece of content like any other notice. The simplest form is a table as text, with the weekdays and the flats. If the schedule already exists as a file, upload it as an image or PDF. It then goes into the building’s playlist and appears on the screen in the stairwell.
A temporary change, such as a machine under repair for a week, works best as a short notice of its own next to the schedule. It gets an end date when it is entered and disappears by itself afterwards, while the schedule underneath stays as it is. A swap between neighbours goes straight into the schedule instead, so that there is still only one version.
How the schedule works together with the house rules and notices in a rental property is shown on the page about the digital notice board for rental properties.
What works today and what is planned
Today the stairwell screen shows the schedule and the manager maintains it through the portal. That settles the question of which version applies.
Booking directly on the screen is a planned service and not available yet. It requires a connection to the laundry room, and until that exists a booking on the screen would only be a second list next to reality.