Scheduling

In System Admin > Client Properties in the Properties tab, the settings in the Scheduling section control how Dayforce schedules employees and shows information in Schedules. Additional properties control whether Dayforce shows certain types of information, such as unfilled shifts, job assignments, and pay codes.

Publishes Schedule

Controls if Dayforce tracks whether a schedule was published before it’s printed.

• When selected and users print a schedule before it’s published, it’s labeled as a “Draft.”
• When cleared, even if the schedule isn’t published, it isn’t labeled as a draft when printed.

Display Job Assignments

Controls if Schedules shows employee job assignments. When cleared, users can’t see which job assignment is scheduled to a shift and can’t change which job assignment employees are working during their shifts.

Update/Unfill/Delete Shifts for work assignment changes

When an employee’s work assignment changes, this client property controls whether Dayforce updates, unfills, or deletes shifts that were scheduled under the employee’s previous assignment.

Update Future weeks shifts when work assignment changes (Range 1-52 weeks)

If you select Update in the Update/Unfill/Delete Shifts for work assignment changes drop-down list, enter the number of weeks into the future that Dayforce begins updating shifts when an employee’s work assignment changes. For example, if you enter 2, Dayforce begins updating schedules two weeks from the current date.

Use loose activity matching in shift

Controls how Schedules determines which activities can be added to a shift.

• When selected, employees can be scheduled for activities they’re qualified to perform based on each job assignment they’re qualified to work, rather than the job assignment they’re scheduled to work. For example, if an employee is qualified to work three jobs, and each job has two distinct activities linked to it, six activities can be scheduled in the shift. Activities are linked to job assignments in Schedule Setup. See Configure Job Assignment Activities.
• When cleared, employees can be scheduled for activities they’re qualified to perform based on the job assignment they’re scheduled to work.

Display Pay Codes

Controls whether Schedules shows pay code information. When cleared, users can’t schedule employees to a specific pay code in the Schedules Grid View.

Auto load

Controls whether the upcoming schedule is loaded in Schedules instead of waiting for users to select a week and click Load.

Zone in activity overwrites

Controls how Dayforce accounts for the labor spent during scheduled activities. When cleared, all of the labor from a shift counts toward its zone. This is determined by the job assignment the employee was scheduled to work during the shift and the activities scheduled to a shift don’t impact this allocation. When selected, the labor from a shift can count toward an activity’s zone. If an activity has been linked to a specific zone in Schedule Setup > Activities, then the portion of a shift covered by that activity counts its labor toward the activity’s zone.

See Configure Activities.

Level of view detail

Determines the level of detail in the Grid View for scheduled shifts, which is shown in the slider in the Options panel:

• Schedule: Low level of detail, showing only shifts’ start and end times. Users must change the level of detail, or edit an existing shift, to see any scheduled meals or activities.
• Schedule and meals: Medium level of detail, showing start and end times of shifts and meals. Users must change the level of detail, or edit an existing shift, to see any scheduled activities.
• Schedule, meals and activities: High level of detail, showing the scheduled shift’s start and end times, meal start and end times, and any scheduled activity in the shift.

Shift must be in one zone

Controls whether employees must work their entire shift in the same zone. When selected, users can’t schedule employees for activities outside of their shift’s zone.

Display Detailed Coverage

Controls if Dayforce shows detailed coverage information along the top of the Schedules Bar View. When selected, Dayforce shows the number of scheduled hours and the variance between planned and scheduled hours, for both daily and quarter-hour labor demand:

Layout mode

Controls the default layout that the Bar View uses. Each view provides a slightly different schedule layout. The options are:

• Coverage View: Dayforce stacks scheduled shifts according to shift start times.
• Employee View: Dayforce lists employees alphabetically on the view’s left side and shows the number of hours that they’re scheduled each week.
• Daily Employee View: Similar to the Employee View, but this view shows only employees that are scheduled on the day of the week that you select.

Show Schedule Rule Set in Problem Pane

Enables the Rule Set column in the Problems panel in Centralized Schedules and Schedules. This column indicates which ruleset in your schedule rule policy was violated based on the schedule problem, when applicable.

Show Schedule Rule in Problem Pane

Enables the Rule column in the Problems panel in Centralized Schedules and Schedules. This column indicates which rule in your schedule rule policy was violated based on the schedule problem, when applicable.

View mode

Controls whether Schedules opens in the Bar View, Grid View, or Split View. See Schedule Options in the Manager Guide.

Reallocate meals/breaks

Controls if Dayforce reallocates meals and breaks when users edit the schedule. When selected, Dayforce adds, removes, or reschedules any meal or break on a scheduled shift when the shift's duration is edited. When or if the meal or break is rescheduled depends on the meal and break allocation rules that are already configured. These rules dictate how many meals and breaks shifts receive automatically, and they’re based on the shift’s scheduled duration. For example, the rules might state that a four-hour shift receives one 15-minute break. When a user changes a three-hour shift, which wasn’t scheduled for a break, to last five hours, Dayforce automatically schedules the 15-minute break.

You configure meal and break allocations in time entry policies in Pay Setup > Time Entry Policy. See Meal and Break Allocations.

Show minors

Controls whether Dayforce indicates minor employees in Schedules and Centralized Schedules by default. When this checkbox is selected, the Indicate Minor Status checkbox in the Options panel is selected by default and Dayforce places the minor icon () next to employees’ names in the Grid View. Users can select the Indicate Minor Status option if it’s not enabled by default and can also unselected it.

Minor Age (Age of Minority within scheduling)

Defines the age of minority in Schedules and Centralized Schedules. Dayforce places the minor icon () next to employees’ names in the Grid View if the Indicate Minor Status checkbox in the Options panel is selected. By default, this client property is set to 18 and you can update it as required.

Auto select activity

Controls whether Dayforce automatically selects and schedules an employee to their job assignment’s primary activity. Dayforce schedules an activity if the job assignment has at least one activity assigned to it in Schedule Setup > Job Assignment Activities. If the job assignment has more than one activity assigned to it, Dayforce assigns the activity that’s at the top of the list.

Enable Customized Employee Sort Order

Controls the ability to specify a custom employee sort order in Centralized Schedules and Schedules. When enabled, you can click Custom Sort in the toolstrip to reveal arrow icons in the Employees column of the Schedules Grid View. Use these arrow icons to reorder the list of employees:

The Printed Schedule Report and the Manager Coverage Report respect the custom sort order you apply in Schedules.

Primary sort, Secondary sort, and Third sort

These three drop-down lists define the order in which schedules are shown by default. The Primary sort drop-down list defines how schedules are sorted first, and the Secondary sort and Third sort lists used for successive sorts. The schedule can be sorted by department name, employee job rank, employee name, job rank, pay class rank, seniority date, or zone.

Note: Any sort order defined in Schedules supersedes a default sort order that’s configured using these client properties. To ensure that these client properties are respected, remove the configured sort order (if available) in Schedules by clicking Sort and removing any sorting options in the Selected column.

Job ranks are assigned to the jobs configured in Dayforce. See Jobs and Job Assignments Configuration. If the schedule is sorted by job ranks, shifts with the job that has the highest job rank are shown at the top of the schedule.

Similarly, pay class ranks reference each pay class’s sort order. See Create Pay Classes.

Dayforce sorts zones based on each zone’s sort index. See Create Zones.

Primary sort direction, Secondary sort direction, and Third sort direction

Select ascending or descending.

Allow unfilled shifts

Controls if Dayforce includes unfilled shifts. When cleared, unfilled shifts aren’t shown on the schedule and users can’t schedule them.

This functionality is required for unfilled shift bidding. See Shift Bids.

Create unfilled shifts for tafw

Controls whether users can create unfilled shifts when they approve time away from work requests for employees with scheduled shifts. For example, if an employee was scheduled to work from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on March 2, but then they submit a time away request, you could create an unfilled 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM shift when you approve the employee’s request.

Bar View Sort Criteria First

Controls the default setting for the Apply Sorting before Stacking Shifts checkbox in the Sort panel in Schedules. When you select this in Schedules, Dayforce first sorts schedules using the Bar View editor in Coverage View by the sort order the user has configured in the Sort panel, and then by shift times. When you clear the checkbox, the reverse is true and Dayforce sorts schedules first by shift time, and then by the user’s sort criteria.

Annotate Closing Shifts on Posted Schedule Report

Controls whether the end time of closing shifts are marked with a C in the Posted Schedule Report. When cleared, Dayforce shows shift start and end times in the report, even if a shift is scheduled until close.

Hide Departments

Controls whether Dayforce hides the Zone filter in Schedules and Timesheets.

Limit Availability on Grid Scheduler to Operating Hours

Controls how Dayforce examines employee availability. When selected, Dayforce considers availability only during a location’s operating hours. If an employee is available only outside of operating hours, Dayforce marks the employee as unavailable all day in Schedules. Dayforce shows availability only during operating hours. When cleared, Dayforce considers employee availability during the entire day.

Display activity filter

Controls if Dayforce shows the activity filter on the schedule. When selected, users can filter the schedule based on the activities scheduled to shifts.

Display pay class rank sort

Controls whether users can sort the schedule by pay class rank.

Default Schedule Start, Default Schedule End

Defines shifts’ default start and end times if they’re added through the Grid View.

Grid Autopopulates Meals Before Add Completion

Controls how Dayforce automatically populates meals and breaks in Schedules the first time that a manager uses the feature. When this checkbox is selected, the Autopopulate Meal/Break Before Add checkbox is automatically selected in Schedules in the Options panel when a user opens the feature and schedules employees for the first time. The Autopopulate Meal/Break Before Add checkbox controls whether Dayforce uses the meal and break configuration in the employee’s time entry policy to auto-assign meals and breaks to new user-generated shifts.

When the Grid Autopopulates Meals Before Add Completion client property isn’t enabled, the Autopopulate Meal/Break Before Add checkbox is cleared in Schedules when a manager uses the feature for the first time. When the Autopopulate Meal/Break Before Add checkbox is cleared in Schedules, Dayforce doesn’t automatically add meals and breaks to new user-generated shifts.

Note: This client property only controls the Autopopulate Meal/Break Before Add checkbox functionality in Schedules when a manager uses the feature for the first time. If a manager changes the Autopopulate Meal/Break Before Add configuration (that is, by selecting or clearing the checkbox), their input takes precedence and overrides the Grid Autopopulates Meals Before Add Completion client property.

Day of week when next week shown

Defines when Dayforce loads the next schedule period:

• 0 loads the next schedule period.
• 7 loads the current schedule period.
• 1 to 6 determines which schedule loads, based on the current day’s number in the days of the week. For example, say an organization’s week starts on Monday and a user goes to Schedules on Wednesday, which is the third day of the week. If you enter 2, Dayforce loads the next week’s schedule. If you enter 4, it loads the current week.

Show Audit for unposted schedule

Defines whether Dayforce shows audit information for unposted schedules:

• When selected, the Audits panel shows any changes that are made to the schedule after it’s saved, but before it’s posted.
• When cleared, the Audits panel shows only changes made to posted schedules (using the Post button in Schedules).

Enable Comments

When selected, managers can add comments for an employee when adding or editing shifts in Schedules. For example, a manager could inform their employees of an alternate work location. Employees can view shift comments in Work > Calendar:

Scheduling Interval Size

Defines the minimum increment that users can specify or change scheduled times by when adding or editing shifts. You can select the following increments:

• 1 Minute: Shifts can be scheduled to the desired minute. For example, you can schedule a shift to start at 8:58 AM and end at 3:28 PM.
• Note: Selecting this option disables the Schedules Bar View and Split View. However, Dayforce still shows coverage totals.
• 5 Minutes: Shifts can be scheduled on the hour, or at five minute intervals past the hour.
• 15 Minutes: Shifts can be scheduled on the hour, or 15, 30, or 45 minutes past the hour.

When you select 1 Minute, Dayforce also supports 1-minute schedule increments for the following:

• Shift rotations
• Activities
• Schedule templates
• Schedule auditing
• Schedule compliance rules (for example, Core Hours Rule, Daily Hours Rule, Minimum Rest In Period Rule, and others)
• Printed Schedule Report
• Schedule Audit Report
• Note: The Daily Coverage Report and Manager Coverage Report don’t support 1-minute schedule increments. These reports are unavailable to users when 1-minute increments are enabled.
• Exporting schedules
• Importing schedules
• Find Candidate
• Fill Unfilled Shifts
• Tooltips
• Time entry policies

The Scheduling Interval Size client property also governs the behavior of the Min Duration (minutes) field in activities. Dayforce rounds the value specified in Min Duration (minutes) up to the nearest interval size specified in the Scheduling Interval Size client property. For example, if the interval specified is 15 minutes, and the Min Duration (minutes) is 16 minutes, then the minimum activity length applied for scheduling is rounded to 30 minutes. However, continuing that example, if the Scheduling Interval Size property is set to 5 minutes, then the minimum activity length applied for scheduling is 20 minutes.

Autofill will allow work to start/end/change

Defines the default points in the hour that shifts can start or end when you create shifts using autofill. You can configure shifts to start every 15 minutes, on the 30 and 60 minute marks, or only on the 60-minute mark. Every 15 minutes is selected by default. When users create a schedule using autofill, the option that you select is selected by default in the Options dialog box. If necessary, the user can select another option to change when shifts start, end, or change for the schedule that they’re creating.

Prompt to clear

Defines if Dayforce shows a prompt when users click the Clear button in Schedules. Select Always and Dayforce shows a prompt. Select Never and Dayforce doesn’t show a prompt. Clearing a loaded schedule deletes every scheduled shift, based on the user’s access and any applied filters. By prompting users to confirm, Dayforce helps ensure that this action is performed only when appropriate.

Number of Editable Scheduled Days in the Past

Defines the number of rolling 24 hour periods into the past (if any) that Dayforce permits users to edit schedules, either through Schedules or the schedule import. For example, enter 14 and users with access can go back a maximum of 14 rolling 24 hour periods from the present time and still edit schedules. You can also enter a negative number to restrict edits to future schedules. For example, to prevent users from editing shifts that are within the next three rolling 24 hour periods, enter -3. This prevents users from editing any shifts that occur from now (for example, 3:00 AM Monday) until three rolling 24 hour periods in the future (that is, 3:00 AM Thursday). Also, because the number isn’t positive, this prevents users from editing any schedules prior to that time in the past. By default, the value is 0.

The ability to allow past edits to schedules is intended for situations where an employee’s schedule has changed, but the schedule wasn’t modified in time to reflect the new hours that the employee will be working. For example, if a manager calls an employee in to cover an unexpected absence, then the employee works the shift, and records the time. Dayforce shows this as an unscheduled, worked shift in Timesheets, even though the employee’s manager asked them to come in to work on short notice or there was an agreement to work another shift. With this functionality, the employee’s manager can update the schedule afterwards, even though it’s in the past, to reflect what the employee was asked to work.

This functionality is controlled by this client property and the Edit Past Schedules access authorization.

To allow past schedule edits or prevent future edits:

• In the Number of Editable Scheduled Days in the Past client property, specify the number of days into the past that users with access can edit schedules.
• In System Admin > Roles, in the Authorizations tab, locate the Edit Past Schedules access authorization and assign all permissions. See Configure User Role Authorizations.

Note: When you edit a past schedule, Dayforce runs the rule engine to recalculate employees’ pay and changes to pay can occur, depending on the configuration of the pay rules and qualifiers. For added security and to prevent Dayforce from creating inadvertent retros, it isn’t possible to edit schedules in retro pay periods (that is, on transmitted pay periods). However, users with access can still edit schedules in past, non-retro periods.

Schedule Approval Request Workflow

Enables Dayforce to use workflows for schedule approval. When this client property is enabled and users have access to the Schedules > Forms Action > Schedule Approval Request role feature in System Admin > Roles in the Features tab, the Request button is available in Schedules in the toolstrip. Users with access can click Request to configure and submit the Schedule Approval Request form. See Schedules.

KPI for Schedule Efficiency Score

Links a KPI to the Recalculate Schedule Efficiency background job, which is used to store schedule efficiency scores in the database. You can use the selected KPI to track daily and weekly schedule efficiency scores for locations and their zones in Plan and Operation View, and to create reports on schedule efficiency in Reporting and Analytics. It can be used to track scores of individual stores or the average score of stores under an above store location (for example, to provide a district-wide schedule efficiency score).

First, you need to create a KPI for schedule efficiency. Because schedule efficiency is a percentage value, the KPI must use a percentage.

Then, select the KPI in the KPI for Schedule Efficiency Score drop-down list to link the KPI to the Recalculate Schedule Efficiency background job. The drop-down list shows only KPIs that use a percentage value. When a schedule efficiency KPI is defined, run the Recalculate Schedule Efficiency background job to store schedule efficiency scores in the database. For more information on configuring KPIs for use in Dayforce, see the following sections:

• To configure KPIs for use in Plan, see KPIs and KPI Metadata.
• To configure KPIs for use in Operation View, see Operation Dashboards Configuration.
• To create ad hoc reports, see Ad Hoc Report Administration.

Skip the one-step look-ahead for base coverage in autofill

With one-step look-ahead, Dayforce checks to see if making a schedule change will detrimentally impact the next step in the autofill. This property controls whether the Skip base coverage checking checkbox in the Autofill dialog box is selected by default. When you select this checkbox, autofill doesn’t check for detrimental impacts to base coverage when filling the schedule.

Skip the one-step look-ahead for minimum non-work staffing in autofill

Controls whether the Skip the one-step look-ahead for minimum staffing coverage checkbox in the Autofill dialog box is selected by default. When you select this checkbox, autofill doesn’t check for minimum staffing coverage.

Autofill covers shifts with activities where possible

Controls whether the Activities cover the whole shift checkbox in the Autofill dialog box is selected by default. When you select this checkbox, autofill tries to add/modify activities within shifts at the end of the process to see it can improve schedule efficiency.

Skip appending activities to shifts improvement method

Controls whether the Skip append activity improvement checkbox in the Autofill dialog box is selected by default. This option is enabled by default because it should generally be skipped unless being used for configuration purposes. When enabled, this option attempts to cover a shift entirely with activities which can have some undesirable side effects outside of configuration scenarios.

Values to show in employee totals

Defines which employee totals Dayforce shows in Schedules. By default, Schedule Total and Zone Total are selected. If necessary, select Weekly Contract Target to show the weekly contract target (that is, the Normal Weekly Hours value from the employee profile) for employees who are assigned a contract. When selected, Dayforce shows this total in the following places:

• When using Schedules in Grid View, Dayforce shows the weekly contract target for contract employees after the other totals in the Total column:
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• The weekly contract target value comes from the Normal Weekly Hours field in the employee’s HR record. In the example above, Dayforce shows the weekly total and the zone total (both 35), followed by the employee’s weekly contract target (38). For contract employees who aren’t assigned a Normal Weekly Hours value, Dayforce shows “--” in place of the weekly contract target:
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• For non-contract employees, Dayforce shows only the other totals:
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• When using either the Employee View or Daily Employee View in the Schedules Bar View, Dayforce shows contract employees’ weekly contract target next to their weekly total in the employees list on the left side of schedule.
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Match Employee Transfer based on

Specifies how Dayforce determines which employees you can reassign shifts to. When you select Job Assignments, Dayforce restricts shift reassignment based on job assignment. For example, a Supervisor shift can be reassigned only to another employee with a work assignment for the Supervisor job assignment. When you select Activities, Dayforce ignores shifts’ job assignments and users can reassign it based on the activity. So, if the Markdowns activity is associated with a shift, Dayforce allows you to reassign the shift to any employee who can perform that activity, regardless of their job assignment.

Note the following when using the Match Employee Transfer based on client property:

• When this client property is set to Activities but no activities are assigned to the selected shift, Dayforce reverts back to Job Assignments.
• When an employee has more than one job assignment that they can work at an activity, Dayforce defaults to their primary job assignment. If they can work only that activity in non-primary job assignments, Dayforce uses the first non-primary job assignment it finds.
• Dayforce respects this client property regardless of whether users reassign the shift using the Find Candidate dialog box, by selecting a new employee in the drop-down list when editing the shift, or by dragging and dropping the shift into a new cell in Grid View.

Display Individual Availabilities

Select the Display individual availabilities checkbox by default in the Options panel of the Schedules Bar View. When selected, Dayforce limits each employee’s availability to their own row, so that you can view availability for multiple employees at once:

When you clear the checkbox, Dayforce shows only the availability of the employee that you’re hovering over, because the availability occupies the entire schedule grid:

Auto delete activities in bar view

Controls whether activities are automatically deleted in the Bar View when users modify the duration of the associated shift. When you select this checkbox, Dayforce automatically deletes activities. When this checkbox is cleared, you must delete the activities separately.

Save required before report printing

Specifies whether users can print schedules without saving their latest changes. When selected, users can’t print reports in Schedules until they save their latest schedule changes. When cleared, users can print schedule reports even if they haven’t saved their latest schedule changes.

Prefer primary job assignment filtering

Enables the Prefer primary job assignment filtering checkbox in the Autofill dialog box under Options > Construction. When this property is enabled, users can select the checkbox to schedule employees by primary job assignment first when running autofill. The checkbox in the autofill options is selected by default.

Explicit Day of Week Ordering

Controls the order in which Dayforce schedules shifts using autofill. When this checkbox is selected, Dayforce applies the customized weekly order that’s configured in Schedule Setup > Assignment Policy in the Weekly Order tab when determining which shifts to add to the schedule first. If this checkbox is cleared, Dayforce doesn’t use your customized weekly order and adds the shifts to the schedule randomly.

For more information about weekly orders for autofill, see Assignment Policies and Configure the Weekly Order.

Bar View Ruler

Specifies which ruler type Dayforce shows in the Bar View:

• Duration: View the shift’s duration when modifying an employee’s shift in the Schedules Bar View.
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• Start & end times: Select this option to view the employee’s shift times when modifying their shift in the Schedules Bar View:
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Show Report Version

Controls whether Dayforce shows a report version number in the Printed Schedule Report, Daily Coverage Report, and Manager Coverage Report. The version number increments by 0.1 each time you generate the report if the schedule has been updated since the last time it was generated.

Run Rule Engine on Schedule Save

Controls whether Dayforce runs the Pay Summary Recalc job every time you save their schedule, or only when the Pay Summary Recalc nightly job runs. When selected, the Pay Summary Recalc job runs automatically along with the Reconcile Schedule Data background job, every time you save a schedule. When cleared, the Reconcile Schedule Data background job runs without running the Pay Summary Recalc job. Only the Tardy and Time Entry Problem Recalc job engines run. Saved schedules aren’t recalculated via the Pay Summary Recalc job until the Pay Summary Recalc nightly job runs.

Enable User Defined Labor Metrics on Scheduler

Controls whether Dayforce shows user-defined labor metric codes in Schedules. When you don’t enable this client property, Dayforce doesn’t show user-defined labor metrics on the schedule. Dayforce also doesn’t add user-defined labor metrics to shifts that you create using shift rotations or templates.

Availability Period Maximum Length

Specifies the maximum number of weeks that managers and employees can include when editing the availability period, up to a maximum of eight weeks. For example, if you select 3, users can modify employee availability for three straight weeks.

If you select an option greater than 1 in this drop-down list, Dayforce shows the Duration (weeks) drop-down list when users make edits to default availability. In the drop-down list, users can select the number of weeks that they want to update default availability for. This setting is available in:

• Work > Calendar
• People, in the Work > Availability screen

See:

• Work > Availability in the HR Administration Guide
• Manage Availability Requests in the Manager Guide
• Manage Your Availability in the Employee Guide

Use auto complete for dockets

By default, Dayforce loads all of the dockets that an employee has access to, which can take longer for customers with a large number of dockets. Select this checkbox and Dayforce shows a dialog box where you can search for dockets to load.

Use auto complete for projects

By default, Dayforce loads all of the projects that an employee has access to, which can take longer for customers with a large number of projects. Select this checkbox and Dayforce shows a dialog box where you can search for projects to load.

Note: Unlike full-text searches, this control uses prefix-matching, which means that the search text must exactly match the start of the project name.

Use auto complete for labor metric codes

By default, Dayforce loads all of the labor metrics that an employee has access to, which can take longer for customers with a large number of metrics. Select this checkbox and Dayforce shows a dialog box where you can search for labor metrics to load.

Enable real time calculations (HTML Scheduler)

Use the Recalculate button in the toolstrip to recalculate data in the Cost and KPI panels. When this checkbox is cleared, the Recalculate button recalculates all schedule information as well as data in the Cost and KPI panels.

Enable Schedule Acceptance

Enables the schedule acceptance functionality in Dayforce. When this checkbox is selected, Dayforce enables the following in Schedules:

• The Revoke Offers button in the toolstrip.
• The Rejected Offers tab in the Problems panel.

See Schedule Acceptance.

Mobile Calendar Inbox Future Date Range

Controls the date-range threshold for the Schedule Acceptance – Schedule Offer Sent notification. If a manager creates a new schedule offer for an employee that falls outside of this future date range, Dayforce doesn’t notify the employee about the offer. This client property is set to 90 days, by default.

Consider an example where this client property is set to 14. If a manager updates a shift that’s 22 days in the future, Dayforce doesn’t send a schedule acceptance offer to the affected employee because the shift is outside of the 14-day threshold.

See Schedule Acceptance – Schedule Offer Sent.

Visible MyPlan Columns

Defines whether Dayforce shows or hides each of the forma columns in Plan. Dayforce shows only the specified columns to users in Plan.

Make All Non-Productive Shifts Non-Editable

Dayforce grays out non-productive shifts on the schedule and you can’t edit them.

Autofill primary work assignment restriction level

Specifies the default to apply when you use autofill to schedule employees based on their primary work assignment. The options are:

• No Restriction: All employees are eligible for scheduling, including those that don’t primarily work at this location. This is the default selection.
• Primary Location: Employees are restricted to being scheduled to their primary location but can be scheduled to any on-site department and any job assignment.
• Primary Job Assignment: Employees are restricted to being scheduled to their primary location, their primary on-site department, and their primary job assignment. So, they can be scheduled only to their primary work assignment. This is the most restrictive option.

Maximum Number of Weeks in the Past to Allow Edits in Plan

Role feature access: Plan > Edit

The maximum number of weeks in the past that users can modify plans in Plan. For example, this field can be thought of as the earliest week relative to the current week that you can edit in Plan.

By default, the value in the field is 0 and users can only edit the values in the Manager Adjust column for the current and future weeks. This field accepts integer values including zero and negative numbers. Consider the following examples of this field’s configuration:

• Enter 1 and users can edit future weeks, the current week, and up to one week in the past.
• Enter 0 and users can edit the current week and the future weeks, but not previous weeks.
• Enter -1 and users can edit only future weeks, but not the current or previous weeks.

If left empty, all weeks are editable if the Plan > Edit role feature is enabled in System Admin > Roles in the Features tab.

Work Contract info to show on Scheduler

The work contract information that Dayforce shows in Schedules.

Work Contract Info to show on Scheduler Tooltip

The work contract information that Dayforce shows in tooltips in Schedules.

Show Html Sales Statistics

Dayforce selects the Show Sales Statistics checkbox in the Options panel by default in the Schedules Bar View.

Skip scheduling tasks in Autofill

Dayforce selects the Skip Scheduling Tasks checkbox by default in the Autofill dialog box of the Schedules Grid View.

Enable paging

Dayforce shows the Enable Paging checkbox in the General Options section of the Options panel in Schedules. Select the Enable Paging checkbox to divide employee shift records across separate pages in the Grid View rather than showing them on a single screen. This functionality is useful for organizations with a large number of employees. This client property is used in conjunction with the Records per page client property. When this functionality is enabled, Dayforce shows page selectors above the schedules grid to control which page of employee records you want to view:

When the Enable paging checkbox is selected and you load a location in Schedules, Dayforce checks whether the number of employees at that location exceeds the value specified in the Records per page client property. If the location has a larger number of employees than the Records per page value, Dayforce shows the Enable Paging checkbox in the General Options section of the Options panel, and is selected by default.

Note: When paging is enabled in Schedules, some functionality becomes unavailable. See Schedule Options in the Manager Guide.

Records per page (Recommended range: 200 - 1000)

Controls the number of employee shift records that Dayforce shows per page in the Schedules Grid View, and is used in conjunction with the Enable paging client property. Specify the maximum number of employee records allowable per page. The default value is 750.

Default Landing Pane

Controls the panel that loads by default in Schedules. For example, select Audits and the Audits panel opens by default when you load a schedule.

Completely Exclude Shifts With Non Productive Transfers

Dayforce doesn’t show non-productive shifts in Schedules.

Allow only authorized manager to view violations

Controls who can view and correct scheduling violations for borrowed employees in Schedules. When selected, the following occurs, depending on the borrowed employee’s status:

• If an employee is exclusively borrowed to another location, scheduling violations are visible only to the location that's borrowing the employee.
• If an employee works at multiple locations, scheduling violations are visible only to the affected location.

Secondary Employee Display

Controls the employee attributes that Dayforce shows in Centralized Schedules and Schedules. Dayforce shows the attributes that you select below employees’ names. The options are: 

• Pay Group
• Pay Class
• Rotation
• Primary Location
• Employee Number

Display All TAFW Reason Codes in the Time Off Type Filter of screen(s)

Controls the time away codes that Dayforce shows in the Time Off Type filter in Multi-Week Calendar and Schedules:

• [None]
• Schedules
• Multi-Week Calendar
• Both

When configured, Dayforce shows all of the time away codes that are configured in the application, instead of just the time away codes that are present in the loaded period. For example, if you select Schedules, Dayforce shows all time away codes in Schedules, but it shows only time away codes for the current week in Multi-Week Calendar.

Schedule Cost Pane, Scheduled Hours sum by worked hours only

Dayforce shows the accurate number of scheduled hours in the Cost panel in Schedules. When this checkbox is cleared, Dayforce duplicates the shown scheduled hours in cases where there are separate premiums.

Autofill Allow Shifts To End On 8th Day

When autofill runs, it can create shifts that start on the last day of the week (the 7th day) and end within the first day of the next week (the 8th day). See Generate Shifts Using Autofill (Schedules Only) in the Manager Guide and Schedule Solver Execution Job.

Edit Posted Unfilled Shifts

Controls whether users can edit unfilled shifts in Schedules and Centralized Schedules that have already been posted.

Note: To use this function, users also require role access to the Schedules > Enable Segment Display role feature in System Admin > Roles in the Features tab.

Shift Marketplace

Controls access to Shift Marketplace functionality in Dayforce. In the mobile Shift Marketplace feature, employees can pick up shifts at eligible, non-primary locations. When the Shift Marketplace client property is enabled, Dayforce shows information about Shift Marketplace shifts in several features.

This client property also enables access to:

• The Shift Marketplace checkbox in People in the Work > Work Assignments screen. When employees pick up shifts in Shift Marketplace at eligible locations for the first time, Dayforce automatically creates a Shift Marketplace work assignment for the employe. Optionally, you can also manually enable Shift Marketplace functionality for employees by creating a new secondary work assignment for them and selecting this checkbox. This checkbox is available only for secondary work assignments.
• The Display Shift Marketplace Employees checkbox in the Options panels in Schedules and Multi-Week Calendar.
• The Display Scheduled Shift Marketplace Employees checkbox in the Options panel in Timesheets.

When these display checkboxes are selected in the scheduling and timesheet features, Dayforce shows Shift Marketplace shifts and employees in schedules and timesheets. Note that in Timesheets, Dayforce shows some Shift Marketplace information by default, regardless if the Display Scheduled Shift Marketplace Employees checkbox is selected or cleared. See Shift Marketplace Shift Display in Timesheets in the Manager Guide.

When you enable the Shift Marketplace client property, Dayforce also marks affected shifts with the Shift Marketplace icon () in the following timesheet features, by default:

• Employee Timesheet
• Manager Timesheet
• Work > Timesheet
• Features where you can load duration timesheets (Pay Admin Checklist, Pay Approve Checklist, Period Review, Time Review, Work > Calendar)

See Shift Marketplace.