Copying a week

In most businesses, every week looks almost the same. Creating it from scratch every time anyway is the quickest way to stop maintaining a shift plan.

Step by step

1. Open Shift plan and go to the week you want to copy — the source week.
2. Click Copy week at the top.
3. Select the target week.
4. Decide how shifts that already exist in the target week are to be handled: replace or add.
5. Confirm.

The result: all shifts of the source week are in the target week as a draft — with the same people, times, positions and projects. Nothing has been published yet.

What is checked when copying

After copying, the same check runs as when creating a single shift. Specifically, you immediately see:

• Shifts that fall on approved vacation or a sick note
• Shifts on a public holiday in the configured federal state
• Violated rest periods at the transitions between weeks
• Temporary workers whose mini-job limit is at risk

These cases are the real reason why you look over the plan again after copying: the plan is the same, the week is not.

A pattern over several weeks

For a four-week rotation, copy in sequence: week 1 to week 5, week 2 to week 6 and so on. Named weekly patterns as reusable templates do not exist yet — the item is on the list.

Need more help?

If someone cannot make it after copying, the proper route is a shift swap — not quietly changing the entry.