October 10th 2023, Release Note: WFM UK | Revenue and Labour-Based Scheduling: Shift Box Colours

Summary

Release date:  October 10th 2023

• Enabled by default? - Yes
• Set up by customer admin? - No
• Enable via support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - No

What’s Changing?

Shift boxes will now be colour-edged, using a new colour palette for job roles.

Reason for the Change

This is an existing functionality in the old classic user interface of the Scheduling page that we are migrating to the new Revenu-Based Scheduling user interface.

Customers Affected

All Revenue-Based and Labour-Based Scheduling customers. 

Release Notes 

The colour is set up when the job role is created (Settings > Job Roles > Create new job role.

Fig.1 - Select a colour when creating a job role

There will be no changes for any configured job role colours used in the classic UI.

For the new UI, new colours are being introduced. The colour mapping is the following: 

Fig.2 - Colour mapping

For example, if the colour configured in the settings page is Red, the classic UI will display red and Revenue-Based and Labour-Based Scheduling will display Light Brown. The new colours were introduced to meet the standard of accessibility for graphical elements.

The new colours are:

Fig.3 - New shift colours

On the Scheduling page, the shift boxes will be colour-edged.

Fig.4 - Colour-edged shift boxes on Schedule page