Assigning Shifts Using Week Views

The Week schedule views (16 and 8 Week views) are used to assign shifts. Remember, in ARCOS a shift is a collection of working times that spans 7 days. Each daily working time record is referred to as a schedule record in ARCOS. An example of a shift is 7:00 am - 3:00 pm Monday through Friday and an example of a schedule record is 7:00 am - 3:00 pm on Monday. Establishing the shift is done in the Week views and establishing or modifying an individual schedule record is done in the Day views.

Whenever you are in Week schedule view mode, you can customize the list using the Selector options, assign =shifts to employees, copy shifts from week to week for an employee or multiple employees, and delete assigned shifts.

ARCOS has two week views from which to choose: 16 Week View and 8 Week View. The buttons in both the Selector and Tools sections remain the same for both the 16 Week and 8 Week views. Shifts that appear in black text are regular shifts that have not been modified and shifts that appear in red text are regular shifts that have been modified with one-time changes. These changes can be viewed using one of the Day view screens.

All of the buttons shown on the Week view screens are defined in the table below.

Button	Function
Tools
	Allows you to select from a list of user-defined shifts to assign a shift to an employee.
	Allows you to select an existing assigned shift for an employee and copy it to other weeks.
	You must always select the shift in the left-most column to copy to other weeks.
	Allows you to print a selected schedule.
	Allows you to export the selected schedule to a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file for further manipulation or for inclusion in an Excel or Access file.
Submit
	Allows you to save and modifications or additions you make to a schedule.
	Allows you to cancel any modifications or additions you made to a schedule, as long as you did not click the Save button first.
Date
	Allows you to jump back 8 weeks if you are in the 8 Week View, or 16 weeks if you are in the 16 Week View.
	Allows you to jump back one week if you are in either the 8 Week View or 16 Week View.
	Allows you to jump forward one week if you are in either the 8 Week View or the 16 Week View.
	Allows you to jump forward 8 weeks if you are in the 8 Week View, or 16 weeks if you are in the 16 Week View.
	Allows you to reset the current set of dates. If you are in the 8 Week View, the current 8 weeks display and if you are in the 16 Week View, the current 16 weeks display.

  
See here to view an example of the 8 Week View.

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