Staff Scheduler Features: Copy Schedules

Copy Schedules

One of the most powerful features for creating staff schedules is dbi Staff Scheduler’s "Copy Schedule" action. This allows you to copy an existing schedule to create a new schedule. This time saving feature really replicates the way many organizations schedule. Rather than building every schedule from scratch, simply select a schedule plan that you want to use as a template and copy it to a new schedule. To copy a schedule you first identify a new start date then you press the Copy button. The existing schedule is copied exactly (Departments, Positions/Tasks, and Staff) by applying the new start date to all the time bars in the schedule. For example, if you schedule by week, starting on a Monday, you could schedule the following week by copying the first week’s schedule and setting the start date for the copied schedule to the Monday following the original schedule’s start date. Apply the schedules changes for the new week's schedule (what's different from last week) and your done.