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Automated Rounds Calculation for Harvest Forecast

How Source automatically calculates harvest rounds from your labor registration data

Tracking how many rounds your team has harvested no longer needs to be a manual exercise. Source can now calculate realized rounds for you each day, based on the harvesting tasks registered in your labor system, and flag when your plan is drifting from reality.

Before you start: Labor registration integration is required

Automated rounds calculation only works if you have a labor registration system connected to Source. We currently support two:

  • Nitea Work-IT

  • Priva FS

If you don't have one of these connected, the rounds column will continue to work as it does today — you enter planned rounds manually, and there's no automatic comparison against what was actually done in the greenhouse.

How the calculation works

The calculation runs overnight. Each morning, you'll see the realized rounds for the previous day already filled in.

Source looks at:

  1. The paths selected in your cultivation settings (under the Path selection tab). The total area of these selected paths represents 100% of one round.

  2. The harvest tasks registered in your labor system for the previous day. By looking at which paths have been harvested, Source calculates what fraction of the total area was covered — and translates that into a number of rounds for the day.

So if half of your selected area was harvested, that's 0.5 rounds. If the entire selected area was covered, that's 1 round.

What you'll see in the rounds column

Syncing indicator (solid) — When a day's rounds have been calculated from your labor data, you'll see a small syncing icon to the left of the cell. This is how you know the number came from automated calculation rather than manual entry.

Syncing indicator (with line through it) — If the overnight sync was not completed for some reason, you'll see the syncing icon with a line through it. When this happens, Source falls back to your planned rounds for that day — the calculated value does not overwrite the plan. This way, your forecast keeps working even when the labor data doesn't come through cleanly.

Orange warning (⚠️) — If the calculated rounds differ from your planned rounds by more than 5% in either direction (higher or lower), an orange exclamation mark appears on the cell. This is your signal that your plan and reality are drifting apart for that day, so you can decide whether to adjust your plan, investigate what happened, or correct the calculation.

Correcting the calculated rounds

If the calculated number doesn't match what actually happened in the greenhouse (for example, a task was registered against the wrong path, or a task type was misclassified), you can override it in two ways:

  • Click the cell and type in the correct number, or

  • Drag the bar left or right to adjust.

Teaching Source which tasks to include

If you're seeing the same kind of error appear consistently — for example, a particular harvest-related task is being counted when it shouldn't be, or a task is being missed — you can correct the calculation logic itself.

The first time you manually adjust a calculated round on a given day, a feedback modal will appear asking which harvesting tasks should be included in the calculation and which should not. The modal appears once per day, so subsequent corrections that same day won't interrupt you. Your answers update the calculation going forward, so daily rounds will better reflect what's actually being done in the greenhouse.

The more feedback you give over time, the more accurate the automated rounds become for your specific operation.

When to manually correct vs. when to give feedback

Situation

What to do?

One-off mismatch (e.g., someone forgot to register a task)

Manually correct the cell

Repeated mismatches in the same direction

Check your selected paths and if correct use the feedback modal to adjust which tasks are counted

Calculated rounds look right, but planned rounds were off

Update your plan, not the calculation

You see the syncing icon with a line through it

Check that your labor registration is connected and reporting; in the meantime your planned rounds will be used

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