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Learn what details make an employee eligible to see an available shift, or why an employee cannot see an available shift

Available shift visibility

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Help with shift creation, schedule appearance and settings, scheduling tools, and more

Schedules

Arrange the order in which your employees are listed under the Day or Week view when grouped by employee names

Customize order of employees

Review changes to your company's schedule

Activity log

Adjust your schedule layout to horizontal

Horizontal view

Apply and remove filters to get work done faster

Filters

Learn how to view the calendar by shift time

Group by

Learn how this setting helps admins and managers with scheduling for various time zones and how it works for employees

World clock

Viewing the Schedule

Creating a shift

Add details to a single shift to communicate important details to employees, managers, or admins

Shift notes

Use slots with unassigned shifts to meet your staffing needs

Getting your coverage right

Learn how to make shifts visible to your employees and notify them

Publishing the schedule

Unpublishing a shift

Learn how to update several shifts at the same time with bulk editing

Bulk editing shifts

Learn different ways to delete a shift, including bulk-deletion

Deleting a shift

Distribute unassigned shifts to employees that are visible in the schedule

Auto-assign shifts

Tags can help you add more details to your shifts so that they are easily visible within the schedule

Day notes

Learn how to save entire ranges of your schedules so they can be applied to future dates easily

Schedule templates

Learn how to set your commonly used shift times for certain locations and positions so they can be added to the schedule with a few clicks

Shift templates

How to set and apply time blocks and day parts to schedule faster

Time blocks and day parts

Track shifts your employees don't show up for & track sick days on your schedule to keep up with employee attendance

No-shows and sick callouts

How to create, edit, or remove repeating shifts from your schedule

Recurring shifts

Create open shifts for employees to apply to and make unassigned shifts available

Available shifts

Learn how to create and assign multiple applicants to one shift

Available slots

Learn how to copy the full schedule, selected shifts, or one shift

Copying shifts

Create a shift without showing an end time for your employees

Open-ended shifts

Learn how to use this option to help with scheduling

Conflicts

Learn when to use it and what it applies to

Undo scheduling

Apply filters to publish shifts for different departments or managers separately

Publish specific shifts

Edit recurring shifts to transfer them to a different employee

Reassign recurring shifts

Scheduling multiple employees

Learn how to review changes made to a shift and time off requests

Viewing shift history

Configure your schedule settings for standard or mandatory breaks

Breaks

Learn how to use the bulk editing feature to make available shifts unassigned

Make available shifts unassigned in bulk

Creating the Schedule

Learn how to get a CSV or XLS file of your shifts which will include shift notes

Export the schedule

Review shift applications for the schedule

Shift applications

Roster

Adjust schedule settings to request confirmation of shift assignment

Shift acceptance

Premium and Business users can customize the details that display within a shift block

Shift appearance

See a list of icons for shifts and their meanings

Shift icons legend

Select the appropriate schedule tab for the view you need

Viewing the full schedule

Learn how to print or download your schedule and available printing options

Printing the schedule

For all users

Indicate when your break begins, when it ends, and verify that you did or did not take your required breaks

Start and end breaks

For employees

Learn how to share schedules with employees

How do employees receive their schedules?

Check these settings if you are not seeing available shifts in the app

Why can't I see available shifts in the app? (for employees)

View any assigned shifts and available shifts in Sling

My schedule

Enable the world clock to see shifts based on user time zones

Time zone differences

Make the full schedule visible to your employees

Schedule visibility

Unassigned versus available shifts

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