Scheduling

This section of the TimeForce software allows you to create and maintain schedules for your employees. The scheduling module contains many different options, each designed to allow maximum flexibility and ease of use.

Click on the main “Schedule” navigation tab located at the top of the screen. Five links run across the top of the main Schedule screen. These links are “Schedule,” “Create Schedule,” “Spreadsheet Schedule,” “Schedule Rules,” and “Rotating Template.”

Schedule

This screen allows you to view your current schedules in a graph format. Enter the desired starting date, and select whether you would like to view daily, weekly or monthly schedules.

Create Schedule

This section of the software is where your schedules are created and maintained.

Spreadsheet Schedule

This option allows you to create a spreadsheet containing the date range and employees that you would like to create a schedule for. The spreadsheet can then be used to quickly and easily schedule employees and update your existing schedules.

Schedule Rules

This section of the program allows you to create standard sets of rules which can be applied to your schedules. Create rules specifying the number of required hours, automatic meal break deduction, rounding and minimum hours policy assignments, etc.

Shifts

This option allows you to assign your employees to a shift which brings your assigned departments, scheduled days, shift start and stop times, and schedule rules together into easily manageable shift profiles.

Rotating Template

This screen allows you to create templates for rotating schedules. Templates are created with up to four shifts per day, each using an individual set of “schedule rules,” if desired. For example, if a template is created for a 7 day period and applied to a range of 10 days, the system will follow the template for the first 7 days and start over again at the beginning of day 8.