Activities used in shift swaps

Shifts that are included in a shift swap transaction in ASV are reassigned to a new employee or are unassigned, depending on the assignment status of the original shift. When this process happens, a copy of the shifts selected for the swap are booked off as swapped away shifts.

Shifts that have been swapped in ASV are displayed similarly to shifts that have been booked-off and backfilled. You can create activities to indicate shifts that have been assigned to a new employee in a shift swap or that have been swapped away. This can be useful for identifying swapped shifts in ASV or for tracking shift swaps for reporting purposes.

Book off activities for swapped away shifts are configured using the SWAP_BOOKOFF_CODE registry parameter. This activity is used to replace any work or on-call activities in swapped away shifts. The SWAP_BOOKOFF_CODE registry parameter must be configured using an OFF-type activity. Optionally, a relief activity can be configured to correspond with the activity specified in SWAP_BOOKOFF_CODE. This activity replaces work activities in shifts that are assigned or reassigned in a shift swap. The relief activity must be an ON-type activity.

For example, an OFF-type activity called SWP-OFF can be specified for swapped away shifts. An ON-type activity SWP-WRK can be specified as a relief activity for SWP-OFF, which allows it to replace work activities for shifts that are assigned or reassigned in shift swaps.

See Configuring relief activity.