Daily crew dispatch brief in Slack with weather warnings

Every weekday at 6am, build my crews a dispatch brief for the day and post it in Slack.

Start by pulling today's scheduled work from Jobber. Use List Visits filtered to today's date range. For each visit that comes back, use Get Visit for the assigned team members and the scheduled start and end times, Get Job for the job instructions and line items, and Get Client plus Get Property for the service address and any access notes such as gate codes, dogs on site, or where to park. Use Get User to resolve assigned team member IDs into real names so the brief reads properly.

Then check conditions with the Weather Get Weather Forecast operation. Take one set of service-area coordinates as a configured input on the workflow rather than trying to geocode each property, because Jobber returns street addresses rather than latitude and longitude, and we work a single metro. The forecast comes back as five days in three-hour intervals, so line up each stop with the interval that covers its scheduled time and judge morning stops against the morning intervals and afternoon stops against the afternoon ones.

Post one message per day with the slackbot Send a Message operation to a Slack channel I configure. Group the brief by crew member, and under each person list their stops in time order. Every stop should show the time window, the service address, what is being done based on the job instructions and line items, and any access notes.

Flag outdoor jobs that collide with bad conditions at the hour they are actually scheduled: rain, high wind, or freezing temperatures. Decide which jobs are weather sensitive by reading the job details and line items, so work like landscaping, roofing, painting, exterior cleaning, and concrete gets flagged while indoor work does not. Put these warnings somewhere dispatch cannot miss them rather than burying them in the stop list.

Also call out any visit that is missing a service address or missing instructions, in its own section at the end, so dispatch can fix the record before the trucks roll. Do not silently drop those visits.

Make the send time, the days of the week, the Slack channel, and the service-area coordinates configurable inputs. If there is no scheduled work for the day, say so in one short message instead of posting an empty brief.