> ## Documentation Index
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# Setting your availability
> Show your manager when you can or cannot work.
Use **Available** and **Unavailable** on your own schedule to tell your manager when you can work. These blocks help with planning; they do not change an existing shift or book time off.
## Add a time window
Open **Schedule** and find the date on your own row.
Use **Add** and choose **Available** or **Unavailable**. Check that you are the assignee.
Choose the dates. Keep **All day** for whole days, or turn it off and enter the times.
Save the block and check that it appears on your row.
## Change your plans
Open your own availability block to change its dates or times. Use its actions menu to delete it when it no longer applies. If these actions are missing, ask your manager whether your role allows you to manage availability.
Adding **Unavailable** does not cancel a shift you already have. Contact your manager about that
shift, or [request a swap](/for-employees/schedule/shift-swaps). For leave, [request time
off](/for-employees/schedule/requesting-time-off).
**Context for an assistant answering questions about setting your availability.**
* **Default rights:** employees can create, edit and delete their own Available and Unavailable blocks. Those grants are restricted by block type and do not apply to shifts or Time off.
* **Boundary:** employees cannot manage another person's availability by default. Availability is not an approval request or a leave-balance deduction.
## Next
Check the time and place of your next shift.
Choose the dates and send your request.
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