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To create a rotating shift pattern, you must first create a number of donor jobs. These donor jobs are used as a template for the rotation to follow.
For this example, we will make a rotating pattern of 3 jobs, rotating for 3 weeks and repeat that 5 times. This will make shifts for 18 weeks in the future.
Step 1 – Making the donor jobs
For this example we must make 3 donor jobs, each with the correct shift start times, number of people required and pay/charge rates. This is achieved by running through the New Job wizard 3 times. This task can be made easier by running through once and saving the wizard details with a template name, then selecting and altering the template in subsequent runs.
Note that each of the donor jobs MUST fit within a 7 day weekly period, this pattern will be rotated and repeated later to make the complete job over 18 weeks.
When you are complete, your 3 donor jobs will look like this. Note that there are no other shifts outside this week of 11-17 of May.
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Step 2 – Rotating and repeating this pattern
To achieve this we must select our 3 jobs, and load the “Shift Rotator”, to do this tick the jobs and press the dropdown next to any of them and choose “Shift Rotator”.
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This will invoke the “Shift Rotator”
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No of Jobs
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This is auto-populated with the number of jobs ticked to invoke the screen.
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Weeks Rotation
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Defaults to the Number of Jobs, but can be changed by the user.
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Repeat Pattern
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Will default to 0 but can be changed by the user. In this example we will create a 3 week rotation, and then repeat that a further 5 times making 18 weeks in total
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Week 1 Dropdowns
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Are populated with the start and end time of each Job, and will default to those of the donor jobs in the order they were made.
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Week 2 and 3 Dropdowns
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Are populated with the start and end time of each Job, must be completed by the user.
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SAVE Button
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When the data entry is complete this will make the shifts as required.
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Step 3 – Press SAVE
When we press SAVE the additional rotating shifts will be created (for clarity here just 6 weeks of Mondays are shown)
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WEEK 1
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WEEK 2
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