Recurring Shifts
Allow setting a shift as recurring with beginning and end dates
David
shared this idea
Recurring shifts is on the backlog. Thanks!
122 comments
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Eduard Schmidt (GER)
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There is no need to develope a new type of forms for recurring shifts. It‘s very easy and fast to copy them by Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V day-by-day. But it would be very helpful that the shift-bars would be merged in the weekly and monthly view, if there are the same shift informations by more days in a row.
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Dustin Rocksvold commented
First of ll let me say thanks for all the hard work building and maintaining this product and trying to add more functionality, especially in these crazy times!
We work 24x7 rotating shifts on a 6 week rotation. If recurring shifts were available this would allow me to create the shift and set it to repeat every 6 weeks indefinitely. This would remove hours of copying and pasting shifts around inside this app, as well as hours of editing the existing schedule in Excel every year. I could also tie Power Automate to this to remind me about vacant shifts caused by vacations, etc. Outlook has had the ability to set recurring meetings for years. Could that functionality be duplicated here? -
Anonymous
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I would like to add my voice to the thread as needing to have the recurring shifts feature added!!!
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Anonymous
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I accidentally copied one weeks schedule and posted on the next, therefore having a duplicate. I have not shared with the team so it is is editable. For the life of me how do I remove it or default back to the schedule that was last shared with the team? Help!
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Anonymous
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Thanks for the comment here about copy schedule - the copy icon at the top right, seems to work well to copy the previous week/month schedule into the current one. If adding recurring shifts is too hard, maybe microsoft could make this copy schedule a lot more discoverable, like not using the standard copy icon, or even better putting a button with some text!
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Anonymous
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Any update on when this will happen?
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BB
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EVERYONE you know you can copy schedules, right? It's at the top right of the page. It's a good workaround to not having a recurring option for a shift. Copy a day, a week, a month depending on your needs.
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DK
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I need this reoccurring as takes up to much time. please add this
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Bill Dean
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I was really excited about this app in teams only to find that scheduling has to be done on a day by day basis. Having to copy and paste the shifts into the proper days of the week was one thing, but not being able to assign a standard shift over multiple days for one employee makes this unusable.
If your aim is to target retail stores with this shifts app, I think you are targeting the wrong demographic. Any big company that is using teams for communication will not have randomized shifts like retail. They will have set shift blocks that will only change every week to two weeks (for teams that rotate shifts). Why on earth did anyone think that the majority of users would only need to schedule...every...single...day...individually...for...each...employee....separately?!?
You took an app that could be very useful and made it so unusable that it would take 2 - 3 times as long to create a useable shift roster than it would to just use an excel document or a paper and pencil method.
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Scott
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Now that so many of us are going full remote, this seems like something that should be moved to the front of the line. Setting recurring meetings has been a thing as long as I can remember. I don't see how this is different in any way and find it difficult to understand the lack of this feature being implemented.
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Ian
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As others have said, why even release the app without the ability to set recurring shifts. It really is a waste of hours and hours of time. It's unbelievable that this still hasn't been implemented.
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Kyle Dixon
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We, like probably a vast majority of Teams users, have a set work schedule every week. We are a global company with different time zones and people working at different times but they are static work schedules for each office. Using Shifts, I have to manually copy day to day shifts as well as to the members. This is a waste of time. There has to be a way to set a static schedule per Shift Group on a weekly basis. Like Mon-Fri 9AM-5PM and then users sign up or are assigned their shift and it is perpetual so there's no additional administration required unless a change is requested (which is extremely rare).
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Dave
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Is there any work on when this feature may be advanced from the backlog into production? It's been added to the backlog over a year ago
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Egill Juliusson
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Please add this feature asap. Essential part of being able to use Teams for projects that work on a schedule...
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Anonymous
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1 year later and still not a basic feature. MS you dropped the ball on this App.
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Poppy Turbiak
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Wow, I am new to shifts and was trying to set up the next month for my team, I was unable to make the shifts reoccur so I did a Google search hoping to find a tutorial.....and I find this, hundreds of people requesting the same thing! It's really difficult to use this app without this feature, please fix
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Becky Wiacek
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How long is something on the back log for? The lack of this feature is why I can's use this app
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staticshocker
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We should be able to set schedule for every weekday, every weekend, or both. Those options would make shifts very useful. Copying schedule is very confusing and awkward, in my opinion. It also duplicates the time slots and causes mass confusion. Please improve this Teams feature!
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Anonymous
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A white board and dry erase markers are more efficient.
I'd be embarrassed and likely quit before being fired for not responding to my customers for 11 months and 13 days.
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Jeremy Forster
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The lack of this feature is the major reason why we decided not to use Shifts.