{"id":1149,"date":"2018-05-08T17:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/?page_id=1149"},"modified":"2019-05-22T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:32:13","slug":"h-cat-shift-def","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-cat-sft-colors\/h-cat-shift-def\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; Category Default Shift Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-cat-sft-colors\/h-add-new-cat\/\">adding Categories<\/a>, you can set the &#8220;Add Shifts Default Color.&#8221; When you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-view-edit-sched\/h-add-shift\/\">Add New Shifts<\/a>\u00a0and choose that Category, the Color will automatically be set to that default color. You can always\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-cat-sft-colors\/h-coloring\/\">change the Color<\/a>\u00a0of an individual shift by changing it in the Color dropdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-cat-sft-colors\/h-add-new-cat\/\">Create a new Category<\/a>\u00a0with Add Shift Default Settings:<\/h2>\n<p>From any Schedule View:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Category dropdown, choose\u00a0<strong>Add\/Edit Categories<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Enter the Category Name and Abbreviation (Ex. Night Shifts and NT)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Enter any default Color setting you like in the lower box\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<strong>Add<\/strong>\u00a0button\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The window remains open for you to add more Categories &#8211; when done, close the window to go back to your schedule<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Changing the Add Shift Default Settings of an Existing Category:<\/h2>\n<p>From any Schedule View:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Category dropdown, choose\u00a0<strong>Add\/Edit Categories<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scroll down to the bottom box &#8211; Edit Current Categories\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the dropdown, choose the Category name to edit\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Category details will appear below\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Choose the Default Color you want from the dropdown\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<strong>Save<\/strong>\u00a0button\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now when you click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-view-edit-sched\/h-add-shift\/\"><strong>Add Shifts<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on any Schedule View and choose this Category, your default color will be automatically entered for you (any of the default info can be changed).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0adding Categories, you can set the &#8220;Add Shifts Default Color.&#8221; When you\u00a0Add New Shifts\u00a0and choose that Category, the Color will automatically be set to that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/h-sub-cat-sft-colors\/h-cat-shift-def\/\">More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8211; Category Default Shift Colors<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1129,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149"}],"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=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/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=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}