
{"id":5403,"date":"2020-11-15T17:56:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T17:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/?page_id=5403"},"modified":"2022-04-04T20:11:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T20:11:16","slug":"can-emp-pick-up-overlapping-shifts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/can-emp-pick-up-overlapping-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Employees Pick Up Overlapping Shifts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, WhenToWork tries to prevent employees from being &#8220;double booked&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0So when an employee clicks on an open shift that overlaps any time of a shift they are already assigned, we do not display the link to request picking it up.<\/p>\n<p>They can click the link to <strong>message the manager about that shift <\/strong>instead, and they can ask that the manager assign them to that shift and override the warning that it overlaps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"extrawords\">She gets the error message that states \u201cYou cannot pick up this shift because you already have another shift at the same time\u201d.\u00a0 How can I set it that she can pick up any shift even if it rolls into her already scheduled shift?\u00a0 double book employee pick up shift same time\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"extrawords\">add an open shift, and someone is already assigned to work that during that day\/ time frame, they are not allowed to request to work the shift I posted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"extrawords\"><br \/>\nIs there a setting I can change to over ride this function<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, WhenToWork tries to prevent employees from being &#8220;double booked&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0So when an employee clicks on an open shift that overlaps any time of a shift&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/can-emp-pick-up-overlapping-shifts\/\">More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can Employees Pick Up Overlapping Shifts?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/5403"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5403\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}