Schedule periods

Schedule periods are defined according to your scheduling needs. The default schedule period is one (1) week, which can be modified to the desired duration. Some industries prefer to use a longer scheduling period with a duration of several weeks.

Out of the box, the start date for the default schedule period coincides with the DAY_WEEK_STARTS registry parameter. If the DAY_WEEK_STARTS parameter is set to MONDAY, then the default period starts on Monday. The DAY_WEEK_STARTS registry parameter also determines the start day of the week used to calculate employees' weekly scheduled hours in the MVS scheduling screens.

You can use the Schedule Period maintenance form, located at Maintenance > Schedule Settings > Schedule Period, to change the start date for the default schedule period. You can also use this form to add new schedule periods or to edit the start date and duration of existing schedule periods. Schedule periods are associated to teams. When the team schedule is retrieved in the Advanced Schedule View, the system knows which schedule period to retrieve based on the date selected. Any changes in this maintenance form have no effect on the DAY_WEEK_STARTS parameter.

Associating teams with schedule periods is done from the Team Details screen. A team can be associated with only one schedule period. However, a schedule period can be associated with more than one team. When associating a schedule period to a team, you can also apply the same schedule period to all that team’s sub-teams by selecting the Apply to Sub Teams check box. If a sub-team with an inherited schedule period needs to be updated, you can override the schedule period so that the sub-team no longer inherits the schedule period of its parent team.

If a schedule period is not explicitly associated with a team or not inherited from the parent team, the default schedule period is used. If a schedule period currently associated to some teams is deleted, those teams revert to being associated with the default schedule period. The default schedule period cannot be deleted, though the period can be edited.

See Overriding the schedule period of a team.