
{"id":614,"date":"2018-05-04T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/?page_id=614"},"modified":"2021-04-17T22:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T22:00:39","slug":"h-delete-positions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-delete-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Delete Position &#8211; Hide Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, Positions would only be deleted when you are in the process of setting up your account and you have not set up any schedules you want to keep.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, If you have certain positions you have used in the past but don&#8217;t use any more, you can simply set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/sort-order-of-positions\/\">custom sort of your positions<\/a> and sort those unused positions to the bottom of the list.<\/p>\n<p>Only the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-settings\/h-main-mgr\/\">main manager<\/a>\u00a0on the account can delete Positions. Deleting Positions is NOT normally recommended once you have started scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>When you delete a position, it removes that position label and ALL SHIFTS for that Position and it also removes all those shifts from any templates you have saved. This action cannot be undone, once you choose to delete a Position those shifts cannot be brought back when the position is restored.<\/p>\n<p>You might consider using a <a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/sort-order-of-positions\/\">custom positions sort order<\/a>, and sort any currently unused positions to the bottom of the list.<\/p>\n<p>If instead you simply want to <strong>delete all the shifts on a week for a Position<\/strong>, you can go to that week in the Schedules section,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-sched-view-layouts\/h-filtering\/\">filter your Schedule View<\/a>\u00a0to only include that position, and then click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-sub-view-edit-sched\/h-clearing-deleting\/\">Clear\/Delete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>If you want to remove a Position and all shifts related to it from schedules and templates:<\/h3>\n<p>From any Schedule View:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the top menu, choose\u00a0<strong>SCHEDULES<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the Positions dropdown, choose\u00a0<strong>Add \/ Edit Positions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<strong>Edit\/Delete<\/strong>\u00a0Button to open the Edit Positions window<\/li>\n<li>Put a checkmark next the Position and shifts you want to delete\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Click the\u00a0<strong>Save<\/strong>\u00a0button\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/ssdelposw.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4830\" src=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/ssdelposw.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/ssdelposw.png 700w, https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/ssdelposw-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"red\">Note:<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"red\">* You cannot delete positions that have shifts in the current or future schedules.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"red\">** If you are trying to delete shifts for a certain week, please use the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-clearing-deleting\/\"><strong>Clear\/Delete<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0button on any Schedule View instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"extrawords\">delete position deleting position remove erase job old\u00a0 delete positions delete positions delete positions\u00a0 position position position\u00a0 delete positions remove position<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, Positions would only be deleted when you are in the process of setting up your account and you have not set up any schedules&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/h-delete-positions\/\">More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delete Position &#8211; Hide Position<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614"}],"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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/when2work.com\/help\/mgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}