Sling on Mobile

You may find the Sling Employee Scheduling application for mobile devices to be useful. You are not required to use the mobile app. If you choose to give it a whirl, I suggest tinkering with the settings and turning off many of the alerts, because they should prove unnecessary. We plan to communicate any changes similarly to how we do now.

It appears to me and my assistant Emily Ash that we should go about adding CONFLICTS two different ways:

Option 1: For consistent, recurring conflicts, it is best to use

UNAVAILABILITY

Have a look at the Sling mobile app:

See that top left hamburger icon (the three lines)? Click (tap?) it!

Look at all those options. (Editor's note: You may not see all of these options.)

The one you will care about most is UNAVAILABILITY. Use this to create UNAVAILABILITY SETS if you have recurring conflicts. If you have a conflict that you don't foresee changing anytime soon, you could make an Unavailability Set EFFECTIVE UNTIL: INDEFINITELY, which should mean you don't need to add that conflict ever again.

If it changes, though, you can always edit it or completely delete it. 

But what if one has ADDITIONAL CONFLICTS on top of these Unavailability Sets? Well, you could add multiple Unavailability Sets week by week by week. Or, what appears to be the better option for us, is to simply request TIME OFF on the schedule calendar itself.

Option 2: For inconsistent, unique conflicts, it is best to use

TIME OFF

Let's click on Shifts at the bottom and take a look at MY SCHEDULE. 

Very exciting. At the top right, you will see the kebab icon (that's what it's called?! The three dots. The vertical ellipsis, if you will.). See that? That's where we can SCHEDULE TIME OFF.

(I'm assuming you will not see "Create shift" here...) Set the parameters of the request. Please only add a COMMENT if your conflict is attending a PAC event (and thus, not guaranteed).

Then click  SAVE  at the top right. You should now see your TIME OFF request on your schedule:

TIME OFF requests and UNAVAILABILITY overlap shouldn't be an issue.

Let us know if you have questions!

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