- What is the Duty Station View
- Adding, Editing and Deleting Shifts
- Single Week View
- Single Day View
- Multi Week View
What is the Duty Station View
The Duty Station View is accessed by navigating to Rota>Rota Weekly Viewer and clicking the Duty Station View tab
If a shift has a confirmed person working it their first initial and surname will be viewable on the shift, with unallocated shifts saying Not Allocated and having a red border. By default shifts will be colour coded based on the Shift Group with the border depicting the role.
The panel on the left of the screen can be used to filter your results using the drop down boxes
You can also choose to display shifts based on the following options
- Colour code by - This will change the main colour coding of the shift based on Shift Group, Duty Station or Role
- Group Sessions by - This will change the grouping of the shifts to Duty Station, Team or Room
- Allocation Status - Filters shifts based on allocation status, either All Shifts, Allocated or Not Allocated
- Hide Weekends
Adding, Editing and Deleting Shifts
Adding
Shifts can be added at any time by either double clicking the Add Shift button in the icon bar at the top of the screen or by double clicking in the empty space where you want the shift to go. Fill in the relevant details in the Add Shift box and click Save.
✋When creating a shift this way make sure you click on the Shift Defaults tab to fill in the mandatory information
Editing
As with the View Rota Screen shifts can be edited by double clicking on the shift and changing the relevant information.
Multiple shifts can be edited at once by pressing and holding Ctrl on your keyboard, clicking the shifts you want to change and then clicking Quick Edit
The Duty Station of a shift can also easily be edited by dragging and dropping the desired shift from it's original Duty Station to a different one
Deleting
To delete a shift from the Rota Weekly Viewer select the shift you would like to delete and click Delete. You will be asked to enter your password before the shift can be fully deleted.
💡Add Shift, Quick Edit and Delete are all located in the icon bar on the top of the View. Click here for a guide explaining all the icons.
Single Week View
When you initially open the page you will be taken to a single week view with the Duty Stations on the left side of the screen with days running along the top.
Hovering over a shift will show you a dialogue box with additional information
Clicking the arrow next to the week dates will allow you to view the previous or next week within the main date filters of the page
Single Day View
Clicking Zoom In will change the view to a single day view allowing you to better see what shifts you have spanning specific hours of the day
This will show the times of the day down the sides of the screen with shifts spanning the same number of hours as their duration.
Multi Week View
Clicking Zoom Out from the default single week view will expand the view to show you two weeks worth of shifts at once
Clicking it again will show three weeks
And a fourth time will show you four weeks
In each of these views additional shifts on the day can be viewed by clicking the grey bar indicating how many more shifts there are
This will show a list of shifts grouped by Team
Shifts can still be edited from this view by double clicking on the shift.