The Publish Schedule section is used to set when shifts will be published, and whether or not employees will be provided with other options when seeing their shifts.

Publish Date

Allows the user to specify how many days in advance employees can see their shifts once they have been created and saved in Schedule Xpress.

The choices available are:

• All Dates
  • As soon as the shifts are saved, employees will be able to see the shifts
• Publish schedule up to <select date>
  • Shifts only up to the inputted date are shown to employees
  • The date does not change automatically so if users mention that they cannot see shifts, it could be due to a stale date that has been entered in this field.
• Shifts dated up to <x> days after the current date
  • Shifts up to a specified number of days from the current day can be seen by the employee

Auto-Confirm of Shift

When enabled, auto-confirm allows for shifts to be automatically confirmed (vs. explicitly requiring the employee to confirm) once the shift is assigned to the employee.

In some cases when the shift is assigned to the employee, you may want to give them some additional options. An additional feature that can be enabled is where the employee can indicate they can no longer work the shift (Cannot Work). If enabled, additional choices available are:

• Automatically set shift to open
  • Once Cannot Work is selected within Team Xpress, the shift is automatically set to Open so it can be filled by any other qualified employee
• Automatically create time off records
  • This feature will automatically create a time-off record so that the employee will not be available to fill other shifts at the same time
• Disable Cannot Work
  • Allows Cannot Work to be disabled a certain number of hours before the start time of the shift or at a specific time and number of days before the start of the shift