What is a Schedule Template?
To quickly build employee schedules, many TimeForge managers rely on the TimeForge AutoScheduler and schedule forecasts, or build schedules by hand (one shift at a time). Other managers pre-build days on the schedule using collections of shifts, called templates.
Each TimeForge template contains one or more shifts, and can be used to quickly generate schedules for staff members. Each location (or store) can have many different templates (as many as are needed), and templates can be used to build new schedules.
Some examples of templates:
- Friday server / waiter template
- Monday night football template
- Summer weekend lifeguard template
- Christmas retail template
Templates can be grouped together to create Weekly Templates, for one-click schedule creation.
Employee Schedule Templates
Employee schedule templates can be built one shift at a time, or can be copied from other templates. Additionally, a template can be created from a pre-existing schedule, and if departments are enabled, each department will have individual schedule templates.
There are no limits to the number of schedule templates that can be created at a location.
Weekly Templates can be created from Daily Templates
Several schedule templates can be combined together into weekly templates, and supervisors and managers can use weekly templates to build entire schedules with a single click.
Templates can be assembled in different orders to handle labor scheduling across different seasonalities, holidays, or business requirements.
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