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Creating, editing and publishing a shift

Add shifts to the roster, make changes, and publish them so employees can see when they are working.

Use the Schedule to create, edit and manage shifts for your team. Shifts can be assigned to employees, areas and roles, and can be created as one-off, recurring or overnight shifts.

Creating a shift

Clicking on day

  1. Go to Schedule.

  2. Select an empty cell in the roster.

  3. Choose the employee, area and role

  4. Enter the start and finish times.

  5. Add any breaks or notes if required.

  6. Click Save.

The shift will be saved as a draft until it is published.

Dragging an employee onto a day

  1. Click on drag the employee to a day

  2. Drop the employee

  3. If the employee is unavailable, a warning will show.

Note: You can also drag and drop an employee on an empty shift.

Creating leave from the Schedule

Leave can be added directly from the same window used to create shifts.

  1. Select an empty cell in the roster

  2. Change the entry type from Shift to Leave

  3. Complete the leave details

  4. Click Save

Moving shifts to another Employee

Open the shift window and change the assigned employee:

You can also copy & paste a shift to

  • Another employee

  • Another day

  • Another position on the roster

To copy a shift, click on the Copy button, and use the paste button on a day cell


Copying shifts

To save time when building rosters, shifts can be copied and pasted.

You can:

  • Copy individual shifts

  • Copy an employee's week

  • Copy an entire roster into another period by using the Copy Current Week to Another under the Actions

Making changes to existing shifts

Select any shift to:

  • Change start and finish times

  • Update the assigned employee

  • Change the area or role

  • Add or update notes

  • Delete the shift

Deleting a shift

  1. Go to the Schedule

  2. Select the shift you want to remove

  3. Select the ellipsis

  4. Select Delete or Delete & notify

  5. Confirm the deletion to proceed

The shift will be permanently removed from the roster.


What happens after deletion

Once deleted, the shift is removed from the roster and any published notifications are withdrawn. The employee will no longer see the shift.

Undo roster actions

Accidently made a change to the schedule by mistake? Simply undo the change as shown below.

1. Select Actions from the schedule

2. Select Undo / Restore Shifts

To undo a change make select Undo on the relevant action


To restore a deleted shift, select Restore on the relevant shift/s

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