Activities

Activities indicate the type of work occurring within each shift. Typical activities are WRK (work), BRK (Break), VAC (Vacation), and TRN (training). Activities are used in MVS as part of the shift definition in the Shift Configuration Wizard.

Any activity that should be accounted for in an employee's total hours on schedule views must have the Working Activity option selected. All activities should be associated to the PARENT location.

Activity type

Once an activity is established, the activity must be associated to a type in MVS. This type allows the system to distinguish between different types of book-off and working shifts. These types are available:

  • On: Indicates work or productive time, including meal and break times. Typical activities of this type are WRK, BRK, and UAT.
  • Time Off: Indicates leave time. When using these activities to book time off, an LTA override is applied to the employee's timesheet. Typical activities of this type are SICK and VAC.
  • Off: Indicates special leave time. When using these activities to book time off, the shift is removed altogether from the employee's timesheet (instead of an LTA override being applied).
  • On-call: Indicates time when an employee is on-call. Shifts containing activity of this type allow concurrent work time, so both the on-call time and work time (when the employee is called into work) can be recorded. On-call shifts cannot contain meal or break times.

    See Managing on-call time.

Any leave type activities can be configured to use color. The color highlights shift cells for days with full-day book-offs in the Advanced Schedule View.

Leave activities

Leave type activities are VAC and SICK. These activities are defined as non-working. Any leave activities (Time Off or Off types) can be configured to require a reason and a comment when booking off shifts.