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Lunchtime Learning - 26th July 2023

📃 Slides & notes can be found here

During this lunchtime learning, we explore:

Volunteer List

  • An automated list of available shifts that can be easily sent to staff via the Admin Hub
  • The list can be sent to everyone or only the desired roles; rota groups; teams posts. With staff receiving a list of only the shifts they can work

News/Announcements & Audits

  • How administrators can create news and announcement items to share useful & important information/documents with employees in the Staff Hub
  • Created in the Admin Hub and seen in the Staff Hub, news & announcements can be targeted to specific rota groups; teams & roles 
  • Where you can view an audit of which members of staff have opened certain announcements

Sending Emails & SMS from the rota

  • How to send a message to staff allocated to shifts, directly from the rota
  • How to send a list of unallocated shifts to all staff who could work, directly from the rota

New Functionality

  • (v121.1) A new report to show the total number of hours worked across all Rota Groups is available, called [853] Grand Total Hours
  • (v120.1) The leave type is now shown in the subject of the confirmation email sent to staff when a leave request is approved
  • (v119.1) The zone of a shift is now shown in the proposed allocation screen after running the allocation wizard.

✨ A full overview of our latest release (v124) can be found here