Schedule Calendar

Schedule calendar is the most important feature of a shift scheduling application, and ShiftExec allows you to configure the calendar display to meet all your schedule requirements. Let's have a look at the configuration options.

Calendar Date

Select the date that will define the displayed schedule range. By default it starts with today's date.

Calendar Display Range

The zoom level of the schedule.

• Week - display weekly schedule calendar. By default it displays the current week. If another date is selected, it displays the respective week when this selected date is. The selected date doesn't necessarily have to be the start of the week, for example if we select 12 Jul (Wed), the displayed range will be 9 Jul (Sun) — 15 Jul (Sat).
• Month - display monthly schedule calendar. By default it displays the current month. If another date is selected, it displays the respective month when this selected date is. The selected date doesn't necessarily have to be the start of the month, for example if we select 12 Jul, the displayed range will be 1 Jul — 31 Jul.
• Day - display daily schedule calendar. Normally in this mode you will also select how many days it will display. Unlike week or month options, this one will display the schedule right from the selected date. For example, 5 days from 12 Jul.

Like for the day range option, you can also choose how many weeks or months you want to display. For example, you can show 5 weeks or 2 months.

Days Of Week

Here you can define which days of week you need in your schedule calendar. By default it displays all the seven days of the week. But if you want, you can disable some of the days, for example if you want to review the weekends schedule, you can choose to display only Saturday and Sunday.

Grid View

This setting defines how to organize the layout of the cells with each day schedule.

• Each day separately - here we display each new day on a new line, one day per row. This kind of view is especially helpful when you want to display the schedule for a long range, you will just need to scroll the view vertically.
• All days in one row - display the schedule as a table with date labels being as column headers. This view works best when the displayed date range is limited, max 1 month.
• Calendar table - display the schedule as a monthly calendar. Here you can also display a long range of dates, perhaps even a whole month, but this view can't be grouped (by employee or by business term).

Day View

This setting defines how to display shifts, time off and other assignments within one day.

• Timeline - display the assignments in a horizontal timeline according to their start and end times.
• List - display the assignments in a list, one by one, one assignment per row.
• Slim - display the assignments in an inline list as small blocks. This option is helpful if you have many assignments per day so with this one you will get a quick overview of the day.

Group By

You can group the schedule calendar by employee or by any custom business term that you condifured in your online scheduling software system.

Examples

• Display: 1 Week
• Days of Week: All
• Grid View: All days in one row
• Day View: List
• Group By: Employee

• Display: 1 Week
• Days of Week: All
• Grid View: Each day separately
• Day View: Timeline
• Group By: None

• Display: 1 Month
• Days of Week: All
• Grid View: Calendar Table
• Day View: Slim
• Group By: None

• Display: 9 Days
• Days of Week: Mon, Wed, Fri
• Grid View: All days in one row
• Day View: List
• Group By: Position

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