{"id":5872,"date":"2020-11-27T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/?page_id=5872"},"modified":"2020-11-27T18:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:55:01","slug":"stop-new-open-shift-notices-when-editing-shifts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/stop-new-open-shift-notices-when-editing-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop New Open Shift Notices when Editing Shifts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally when you unassign a shift<\/a> on a published week, then employees are sent a notification about “a new shift on the tradeboard”\u00a0 This happens when both items are set up in your account:<\/p>\n

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  1. SETTINGS> Global Employee Permissions<\/a>\u00a0 page option 20<\/span> “Can see and pickup UNASSIGNED shifts”\u00a0 is set to “With Manager Approval” or “At Will” then when you are on a Published week and\n<\/li>\n
  2. Employees have chosen to be notified when a new open shift becomes available<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So if you do not want employees being notified about certain open shifts (you are just temporarily setting it to unassigned), you can uncheck the “Notify affected employees” checkbox before unassigning – but note that this also will not notify the employee you took off the shift.<\/p>\n

    We recommend that you use the Shift Change window to decide who to choose to replace the employee you are taking off the shift right at the same time you are taking the other employee off.\u00a0 This will result in only the old and new employee being notified and prevent the step of the shift being temporarily placed on the tradeboard as an open shift, with notices going out about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Normally when you unassign a shift on a published week, then employees are sent a notification about “a new shift on the tradeboard”\u00a0 This happens…<\/p>\n

    MoreStop New Open Shift Notices when Editing 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\/5872"}],"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=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5872\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}