Shift properties when added to a shift pattern

Shift Description

A description of a shift that is to be assigned or has been assigned to the shift schedule. You can select an existing shift or manually enter a description to add a new shift. If you add a new shift, it will also be added to the list in the Shifts tab.

Start and End Time

Specifies the time period for the shift.

• Times must be entered using the 24-hour format.

• Shift time periods can’t overlap with other shifts in the shift pattern.

• Using the End Day Span property value, a shift can span over 2 to 7 days.

  Note: Shift history records are generated based on the entity's local time. During the end of daylight savings time when clocks are moved back one hour, the local time for the hour will occur twice. If a shift schedule is configured to occur during this hour, the first time will generate a shift change, but the second time will update the shift history record to the latest time. Ultimately, the shift history table will only show the final shift change and not the intermediate change. The recommendation is to not define shift schedules that will fall in the middle of the hour when daylight savings time ends.

End Day Span

For a shift that spans one or more days, this property specifies the number of days beyond the start day of the day the shift ends. A shift can span up to 6 additional days. If the shift does not span into another day, set the value to 0.

For example, say a shift begins at 20:00 on Monday and ends at 04:00 on Tuesday. To implement this shift, you would set the End Day Span to 1 to indicate that the time period spans over to the next day. If the time period starts on Monday and ends on Wednesday, you would set End Day Span to 2, and so on.

Days of the Week

The days of the week to which the shift applies.

Break1 to Break3

These properties allow you to define up to 3 breaks in the shift (e.g., for morning, lunch, and afternoon breaks). Times must be entered using the 24-hour format and must be within the shift time period.

Break time periods are not included in shift time calculations.

User Defined Shift_Schedule spare 1 to 6

User-defined information about the shift. These properties are for configuration information only. They are not copied to shift_history table.