Availability allows you or your employee to enter when they can and can't work. If your company has turned on the availability permission, your employees will be able to choose this. If not, availability will be shown from the weekly working pattern on the people page and any ad-hoc availability that has been added by a manager on the scheduler directly.

Seeing availability that has been entered:

All Availability appears on the Scheduler, against the individual days for which it's been entered for this person. A person's availability is visible on the scheduler to help with scheduling decisions, as seen on the screenshot below:

Availability can be entered as all day, or specified times.

There are four types of availability:

If you do not want to see a person's Availability on the Scheduler you can toggle the visibility on the 'View Section'

Whether shown on the Scheduler or not, if you attempt to schedule someone for a day/time-window that they're unavailable, you'll get a warning to tell you of this 'conflict'.

It's never a binding constraint though - if you decide you want to press ahead and schedule this person despite this warning, you will be able to. The shift will then have an orange triangle and this will also appear next to their name.

However, if your company uses the Autoscheduler, this will always treat Unavailability as binding. Employees will never receive shifts from the Autoscheduler that overlap with a period that they're unavailable. You can manually amend this after to break someones availability if needed.

If you need to add new availability to an employee as a one-off, you can do so by going to add a new shift. Select the 'availability' tab along the top.

Here, you can select one of the four options,. You can then choose if it's an all day availability or selected times and click save.