Add Shifts for Employees in Centralized Schedules

Before You Begin: To enable the ability to add activities or tasks to shifts, go to System Admin > Roles and, in the Features tab, enable Schedules > Partial Shift Activities.

To add a shift for an employee:

1. Go to Centralized Schedules and load a template.
2. Expand the location grouping in your hierarchy and then expand the Employee section.
3. Select a cell and click the add icon. The Add Schedule dialog box opens.
4. (Optional) In the Shift Details section:
   1. Enter a comment.
   2. To create an on-call shift, click the on-call icon (). Dayforce updates the icon with the unconfirmed standby shift icon (). Click the icon again. In the message that opens, click OK to send an SMS message to the employee to confirm the standby shift. Dayforce updates the icon with the standby shift icon ().
5. In the Segment Details section:
   1. (Optional) Edit the shift's default start and end times.
   2. (Optional) Edit the shift's default details.
   3. Click Add Segment to add another segment to the shift. For example, you can add a segment if an employee transfers between job assignments or is paid using another pay code for a portion of their shift.
   4. Click Add Meal or Add Break and edit the rest period’s start and end times.
   5. Click Add Activity or Add Task and configure its details.
6. Click Apply, then OK. Dayforce adds the shift to the employee’s schedule. Depending on the configuration of the template’s grouping hierarchy and the shift, the shift or its segments might also appear under a grouping in your hierarchy.
7. Click Save.

If you added an on call shift, Dayforce marks the shift with the unconfirmed standby shift icon or the confirmed standby shift icon.