Waive work that isn't needed

Required work blocks a zone from being confirmed ready. Usually that’s the point. Occasionally the work genuinely doesn’t need doing — the venue supplied its own, the section got cancelled, it was written for a different room.

Waiving is how you say so.

How it works

Open the task and choose Waive. You have to give a reason.

The reason is not optional and it isn’t a formality. Waived work counts as dealt with for readiness, which means waiving is the one action that can turn a not-ready space into a ready one without anybody doing anything. A reason is the price of that.

What the report prints

This is the part to be clear-eyed about. The report prints, next to that task:

Waived by your name: your reason

Your name. Your words. Permanently, in the document you hand to whoever is accountable for the space.

That’s deliberate, and it’s what makes waiving safe to have. A cut that nobody can see is a cut nobody can question. A cut with a name and a reason on it is a decision — and most of the time, reading it back later, it’ll be obviously the right one.

Write the reason for a stranger reading it in a month. “Venue supplied its own” is good. “n/a” is the kind of thing that makes a report worthless.

Waiving is not completing

A waived task is marked waived, not done. The report shows them differently, and the distinction survives everywhere.

Don’t waive work to tidy up a board. If it needed doing and didn’t get done, leaving it open is the honest outcome — the report’s what was not done table exists for exactly that, and an unfinished item there is far less damaging than a false completion.

When to set a close-by time instead

If the work does still need doing, just not before doors open, set a close-by time on it rather than waiving it.

That keeps the item alive with a deadline attached, and the report prints the time it was meant to be closed by. It’s the right answer for “we’ll do it at the interval” — which is a very different statement from “this doesn’t need doing.”

Restoring

Waived work can be restored if you were wrong. It goes back to being required, and the zone’s readiness recalculates.

The waiver and the restoration are both recorded. Nothing quietly disappears — which is the general rule everywhere in this product.