February 15th 2024, Release Note: WFM UK | Revenue-Based Scheduling: A New Way for Adding Open and Contractor Shifts

Summary

Release date: February 15th 2024

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

What’s Changing?

Users will now be able to add 'Open' or 'Contractor' shifts from the Scheduling page. Contractor shifts will now be displayed at the top of the Scheduling page, under Open shifts. The layout of Contractor shifts has been slightly amended as well.

Reason for the Change

To display more employees and see contractor shifts without the need to scroll down the page.

Customers Affected

All Revenue-Based Scheduling customers.

Release Notes 

• Go to the Scheduling page
• Use the new 'add' button next to 'Employees'
• Then, Open Shifts or Contractor Shifts can be selected

Fig.1 - Add Open or Contractor Shifts

If the Auto-Scheduler is enabled, the 'Open Shifts' row will be displayed by default when converting Auto-Scheduler shifts to open shifts.

'Contractors' shifts are now displayed at the top of the Scheduling page under 'Open Shifts'.

Now the Open shifts can be deleted:

Fig.2 - Open shifts can be deleted

When the user selects the recycle bin in the Open Shifts, a new pop-up will appear, where they can choose a day to delete open shifts from.

Fig.3 - Select a day to delete open shifts 

The recycle bin has also been moved inside the 'Contractors' shift box.

Fig. 4 - Contractor shift row on top of the Scheduling page