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A week of shifts on the Begin schedule, with one shift in focus A week of shifts on the Begin schedule, with one shift in focus The schedule is where you build the working week: who is on, when, where, and in which position. You place shifts on a grid of people and days, and a shift reaches the team only once you publish it.

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A shift is a draft until you publish it

A shift you add is a until you publish it, so your team sees nothing and nobody is notified. Publishing releases the period and filters you are looking at, and nothing else.
A week of the schedule with every shift card carrying the grey draft dot, and the Publish button in the header showing a count of twelve unpublished blocksA week of the schedule with every shift card carrying the grey draft dot, and the Publish button in the header showing a count of twelve unpublished blocks

Every shift here is still a draft, and the number on Publish is what would go out

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Who sees what

You build; the team reads. Someone on an employee role sees their own shifts, and their colleagues’ too when their role allows it. They can add and remove their own Available and Unavailable blocks, which is how they tell you when they can work. They cannot create shifts, and they cannot change anything on somebody else’s row. Time off and Shift swaps are the two pages they also use: your team asks, and you decide. Every other page in this section is a manager’s job.
Yes. Anyone whose role can add and edit shifts sees drafts, for the people their role lets them see. Someone without that permission, which includes the employee role, sees a shift only once it is published.
No. Only shifts are held back as drafts: time off and availability show on the person’s row as soon as they are saved.

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Where the settings live

The schedule reads its rules from a few places. Each has its own permission, so one missing from your menu is one your role does not carry. The week always starts on Monday. There is no setting for it.

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Creating shifts

Times, assignees, breaks, and the shift form.

Publishing

How a draft week reaches the team.

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