Adding Shifts

There is no limit to the number of shifts that can be added to ARCOS. 

Shift

A collection of working times over a span of seven days.

Once a shift is added, it is available to all employees at all locations within a company. Once you create a shift, ARCOS creates a system-generated string that it stores in the Signature column on the Shift Schedule and subsequent shift pages. The information in this column is the days of the week and the time ranges for the shift as you enter it when you create a shift on the Shift Detail page. ARCOS uses this "Signature" that is created for each new, unique shift created on the Shift Detail page to prevent creation of duplicate shifts, so that you must use the Refer As functionality instead.

To Create a New Shift

1. Click the Shift tab. The Shift screen displays.

2. Click Add Shift. The Shift Detail screen displays.

   

3. Click OK to the Please enter a shift name prompt.

   

4. Enter the name of the new shift in the Shift Name field.

5. Select the day the work week begins from the Day of Week dropdown menu in the first row.

6. Continue picking days of the week until you have your work week defined.

7. Select start and end times from the Times dropdown menus in each row and skip to Step 9, -OR-

Select the start and end times of the two Synchronize Times dropdown menus at the bottom of the Shift Days table, if all or most of the times for each day's schedule are the same.

8. Click the Click button in the Synchronize column for each day to which you wish to copy the time that you set in the Synchronize Times field.

9. Click the checkbox in the (P) column or the (N) column, if the shift spans two days to tell ARCOS how you wish to "treat" the shift; it either starts on the previous day or ends on the next day.

   • Select P if the shift starts on the Previous day. (Selecting Previous means the shift STARTED yesterday and ENDS today.)

     Example: If the selected day of the week and time is Monday 17:00-01:00, then the shift will start at 5:00 PM on Sunday and end at 1:00 AM on Monday.

   • Select N if the shift ends on the Next day. (Selecting Next means the shift STARTS today and ENDS tomorrow.)

     Example: If the selected day of the week and time is Monday 17:00-01:00, then the shift will start at 5:00 PM on Monday and end at 1:00 AM on Tuesday.

10. Repeat Step 9 for each day of the week that the schedule spans days.

11. Click Save Shift.

Note: Once the shift is assigned to employees, the shift cannot be modify.

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