Understand when changes that affect shifts are applied

Changes to the following will be applied at the top of the minute that follows when the change occurred:

• Entity name

• Entity site assignment, which could cause a change in the entity's time zone

• Shift pattern

• Shift schedule

• Entity assignment to a shift pattern

The following will occur:

• The shift schedule based on the detected change will be processed in the next minute.

• The shift projections (in the shift_to_go table) will be completely removed and re‑populated for 7 days in the future from the current time when the changes are detected.

• When there is a change in the day (on a daily basis based on the time zone of the MES database server), the shift projections will be completely removed and repopulated for 7 days in the future.

• When a downstream entity is not assigned to any holiday or overtime shift pattern, then by default it inherits the shift patterns of those types that are assigned to its nearest parent entity that can schedule shifts. Therefore, no projections will be populated for the downstream entity in the shift_to_go table. However, if a downstream entity is assigned to a holiday or overtime shift pattern, then the consolidated shift schedules are populated for 7 days in the future for the downstream entity.