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A Shift colours card showing a Training colour and Add colour A Shift colours card showing a Training colour and Add colour Open Settings → Schedule → Colours to change shared schedule colours. Default block colours distinguish kinds of time, while Shift colours are named choices you can apply to individual shifts.
You need Manage schedule settings. These changes affect the workspace, so agree on the meaning of named colours with the people who build its schedules.

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Set defaults for each kind of block

Under Default block colours, choose the swatch beside the block type you want to change. Begin saves your choice immediately. For example, you can give time off a different default from availability. Use the reset control beside an overridden type to return that type to Begin’s default. This does not rename or remove your named shift colours. Choose Use legacy colours if your team wants the familiar Heybegin block-type palette. This applies the preset to the workspace’s block types. It does not import old shifts or recreate your previous custom colour names.

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Create named shift colours

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Add a colour

Under Shift colours, choose Add colour. A New colour row appears.
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Give it a shared meaning

Replace the name with a term such as Training and choose the swatch beside it. Both changes save automatically.
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Use it on a shift

Return to the schedule and select the named colour when creating or editing a shift. The shift uses that colour in place of its block-type default.
A colour is a visual cue. Naming one Training does not change the shift’s position, hours, pay rules or approval status. Use labels when you need a reusable tag to filter work in reports.

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Remove or reset choices

Use Remove colour beside a named colour and confirm Remove to take it off the list. At least one named colour must remain. Reset to defaults replaces all named colour labels and values with Begin’s defaults. Read the confirmation before selecting Reset: there is no undo. This reset is separate from the per-type reset controls above. An individual block’s named colour takes priority over its block-type default. Clear the individual colour choice if you want that block to follow the shared default again. Default block colours above named Training, Extra cover and Opening colours Default block colours above named Training, Extra cover and Opening colours

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Next

Reading the schedule

Choose how colours and blocks appear.

Labels and groups

Tag work for filtering instead of relying on colour.

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