Once enabled in your settings, Enterprise Work Schedules (EWS) allows you to easily create rosters that are pre-populated with shifts that reflect employees' fixed work schedules, in their primary location and role.
Need to enable EWS in your account? Head to Set up Enterprise Work Schedules
Automatically create shifts from employee work schedules
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Go to Rosters
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Click Create New
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Select
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Based on if you want Ento to pre-populate the Roster Locations and Roster Period based on a previous roster or
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Create New to enter the roster location and period details from scratch.
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Review or enter a Roster name
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Review or select the Roster period
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Review and/or enter the Locations
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Select the checkbox for 'Use work-schedules to reset and auto-create shifts'
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Click Create.
And that's it! 🙌 As long as you've enabled EWS in your account settings, your roster will be created with shifts auto-populated from work schedules.
Ento Tip: Shifts automatically created from work schedules are always assigned to the employee's primary role in the draft roster. Double click the shift to select a different role in the shift edit panel and save.
What about shifts for casuals or team members not on fixed work schedules?
Don't worry - we haven't forgotten about your casuals or other team members who don't have a regular pattern of work! Use based on previous roster to also bring in shifts for casuals from the previous roster you select.
To recap, when you create a roster based on a previous roster with the auto-create shifts checkbox selected, Ento will:
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create shifts based on the previous roster for your staff that don't have EWS enabled in their Staff Permissions (likely for your casual workforce, for example) and
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auto-create shifts from work schedules for Staff who do have EWS enabled in their Staff Permissions (likely your FT/PT workforce).
Troubleshooting checklist
Not seeing the shifts you expected in your roster? Check the following items.
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How to check |
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Is EWS enabled correctly in Company Settings and Staff Permissions? |
Follow the steps here on [Article link] |
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Does the employee have a work schedule saved in their Core HR profile? |
Core HR > People > Employees Click 'Edit' on the employee record Click Employment Details and expand the workschedule tile. |
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Is the employee's primary location one of the roster locations?
Auto-creation of shifts from a work schedule occurs on rosters for the employee's primary location only. |
Core HR > People > Employees Click 'Edit' on the employee record Click the Roles tab on the left, and review the Primary Location field.
Rosters > Edit and check the Locations field at the bottom of the page. |