{"id":1141,"date":"2018-05-08T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/?page_id=1141"},"modified":"2018-07-06T20:55:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T20:55:44","slug":"h-add-shifts-cat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-cat-sft-colors\/h-add-shifts-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; Add Shifts Using Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-cat-sft-colors\/h-add-new-cat\/\">created Categories<\/a>\u00a0with any &#8220;Add Shift Default Settings,&#8221; these defaults will automatically appear when you choose a Category in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-view-edit-sched\/h-add-shift\/\">Add Shifts<\/a>\u00a0window. This can make adding similar shifts for different Positions much easier or it can be an easy way to pre-define begin and end times, paid hours, shift colors, etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>To Add Shifts using Categories<\/h2>\n<p>From any Schedule View:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Add Shifts<\/strong>\u00a0to open the Add Shifts window\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Before typing anything.\u00a0<strong>choose a Category<\/strong>\u00a0in the Category dropdown\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Any Category &#8220;Add shift defaults&#8221; ex. begin\/end times or color, etc. will appear (any of the information can be changed for that particular shift)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Enter any other desired information for the shift(s)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Add Shift<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>To test the Category and view the shifts<\/h2>\n<p>From any Schedule View\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Category dropdown, choose your new Category name (Be sure the Positions dropdown is set to All Positions)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Schedule View will now include only the shifts in that Category\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have\u00a0created Categories\u00a0with any &#8220;Add Shift Default Settings,&#8221; these defaults will automatically appear when you choose a Category in the\u00a0Add Shifts\u00a0window. This can make&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-cat-sft-colors\/h-add-shifts-cat\/\">More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8211; Add Shifts Using Categories<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1129,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1141\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}