
{"id":1355,"date":"2018-05-09T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T01:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/?page_id=1355"},"modified":"2021-04-16T22:39:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T22:39:59","slug":"prefs-let-emps-view-only","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/prefs-let-emps-view-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Prefs &#8211; Let Emps View Only?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently if you do not let your employees edit their &#8220;Prefer&#8221; and &#8220;Dislike&#8221; work time preferences then that whole Preferences section is hidden from their interface.<\/p>\n<p>Note while you can restrict the employees from entering or changing their set \u2018cannot work\u2019 times, there really is no downside to letting them edit their own \u2018prefer\u2019 and \u2018dislike\u2019 time preferences, which then allows them to view all preferences.<\/p>\n<p>This is because you can let your employees then maintain their own prefer \/ dislike information without you having to do it for them, and you can still control their \u2018cannot work\u2019 time information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you like, \u201cPrefer\u201d and \u201cDislike\u201d information can be ignored when manually assigning or using AutoFill if you like, or you could choose to factor it is when making assignments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only \u2018cannot work\u2019 is adhered to by AutoFill so there is no downside to letting employees set their prefer\/dislike times themselves and that would also allow them to see preferences, including any \u2018cannot work\u2019 times you have entered for them (even though they cannot change that information).<\/p>\n<p>Their prefer and dislike information can also be very helpful when trying to find a last minute replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently if you do not let your employees edit their &#8220;Prefer&#8221; and &#8220;Dislike&#8221; work time preferences then that whole Preferences section is hidden from their&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/prefs-let-emps-view-only\/\">More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prefs &#8211; Let Emps View Only?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7278,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1355\/revisions\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}