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Hi, 

I want my team to be on call 3 days at a time, with no weekends. This doesn’t seem to be possible, when I add the restriction of Monday to Friday, the scheduling of the 3 days for each person still runs into the weekend.
I even tried to add another layer with just one person on it at weekends to try and block these days out, but it still doesn’t work.

You can see in the image for example 6th December, Jake comes on the rota for only half a day, because the schedule is still running him through the weekend, even though weekends are excluded.

It should be (from the start)
David - Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Jake - Thursday Friday Monday
Mark - Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Gerald - Friday Monday Tuesday

etc. 

Surely this is a relatively common requirement - there must be a way I can do it? What restrictions do I need to set? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

David

current restriction config

 

Hi ​@confused 

The restrictions feature in schedules is a little complicated. It does include “skipped” days in the shift calculations. There is a way to get what you want, but it might be more complex than you want to manage. I’ll lay it out here, from what our engineers came up with for you.

 

If the restriction encapsulates an entire shift no user will be assigned to that shift and the boundary will be moved accordingly. Base configuration vs configuration with larger than 3 day restrictions.

 

You can make use of this to achieve otherwise complicated rotations by repeating users (this does have other limitations such as max 20 users per layer). By creating a schedule with 1 day rotations instead of three and restrictions across the weekend and repeating each user 3 times you can get the desired schedule. It’s definitely counterintuitive!

 

It gives you this final schedule:

Maybe that will work for you! Let us know. 

 

HTH

--mandi

😂 that’s epic, a true engineering solution. Thanks to you and the engineers for getting back to me so quickly. I’ll have a go at setting it up, thank you!

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