Add Tasks to Shifts

Dayforce shows tasks in Schedules only after they’re planned in Task Planning Calendar. See Task Management.

Grid View

To add tasks to shifts in the Grid View:

1. Go to Schedules and load a schedule.
2. Click a shift and then click the edit icon ().
3. Expand the add meal drop-down list and then click Add Task.
4. Click OK, then Save.

Bar View

In the Bar View, Dayforce shows the add task icon only when there’s at least one labor-impacting task planned for the selected week.

To add tasks to shifts in the Bar View:

1. Go to Schedules and load a schedule.
2. Click the add task icon ().
3. In the Add Task slide-out panel, select the task that you want to assign. When you select a task, the schedule automatically highlights the employees that can work the task and grays out employees that can’t. If the task is bound to a specific time frame, Dayforce highlights only the schedule section that falls within that time frame.
4. Click Save.