Selecting your Availability or Unavailability

Selecting your Availability or Unavailability

Purpose

  1. To show how to set your availability or unavailability. 

IMPORTANT: Personnel and Scheduling modules have split. This article and video tell you to access the Personnel Module. You should instead access the Scheduling Module. 

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Definitions

  1. Your department has the ability to change how you show when you are available, or unavailable.
  2. Depending on the selection that they choose in the settings, you may be able to:
    1. Select your availability dependent on apparatus assignments.
    2. Select days that you are unavailable. 
    3. Select days you are available (without the ability to choose the assignments you are available for)

Navigate

  1. The first step regardless of what option your department has chosen is to navigate to Personnel > My Shifts. 

            

Selecting Availability Based on Assignments

Info: This option assumes that you are unavailable unless you provide dates and assignments that you are available for. 
  1. Select a day that you are available.
  2. A pop-up will appear, allowing you to choose:
    1. Assignment you are available for.
    2. Start Time of your availability.
    3. End Time of your availability.

      

  1. Select the Assignments drop down and you will see the assignments that you can choose from. 

           

  1. Once you have chosen your assignment, start time, and end time, select Save. 

      

Selecting Unavailability

INFO: This assumes that you are available on all days that you are off, unless you provide dates that you are unavailable.
  1. Select the day that you are unavailable.
  2. A pop-up will appear, allowing you to choose:
    1. The start time of your availability.
    2. The end time of your availability.
  3. When you have put in the start and end times, select Set as Unavailable.

      

Selecting Availability

INFO: This option assumes that you are unavailable unless you provide dates that you are available for. 
  1. Select the date that you are available.
  2. A pop-up will appear, allowing you to choose:
    1. The start time of your availability.
    2. The end time of your availability
    3. When you have put in the start and end time, select Set as Available. 

      

Adding Multiple Available/Unavailable Days

  1. You can also select multiple days that you are available or unavailable (depending on what your department has chosen.)
  2. Select the Multiple Selection button from the top left of the calendar. 
      

  1. The button will turn blue, and switch to Done. 
    1. This lets you know you can begin selecting multiple days. 

      

  1. Select the days you are available or unavailable (depending on what your department has chosen.
    1. The date will turn blue, giving a visual on which ones you have selected. 
      

  1. Once done selecting days, click the Done button. 

      

  1. A pop-up will appear. 

  1. If your department is using availability with assignments, you will be allowed to choose your assignments you are available for and the start and end times. 
    1. Once you have selected the assignments and entered the start and end times, select Save. 
                  

  1. If you are selecting unavailability, you will be allowed to choose the start and end times. 
    1. Once you have entered the start and end times, select Set as Unavailable. 
            


  1. If you are selecting availability, you will be allowed to choose the start and end times. 
    1. Once you have entered the start and end times, select Set as Available. 
            
            




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