In short. Starting a period's calculation closes input for the whole team and produces the schedule you will adjust before publishing it. No email is sent, and Go back to input undoes the action. Reserved for managers.
Start the calculation
- Generate the schedule, in the band of a Collecting period (at the bottom of the screen on a phone). If participants remain to be told, Inform the newcomers comes before it.
- Read the window: who has confirmed, who has not answered, the requests kept, the rest and the public holidays.
- Generate.
The calculation runs in the background: you can close the page. The grid appears in the Schedule tab (Adjusting the schedule).
Good to know: what is entered is read, confirmed or not. A carry-over of answers counts, unless you set it aside. A person on nights the day before the first day is not put on the first slot, if a schedule covers that day; otherwise, enter their last shift.
Remove a lock that blocks
If a person has declared themselves unavailable on a locked cell, or a kept request targets it, the window says so under To settle before generating. Answer with Remove the lock, or Refuse the request: as long as any remain, Generate is inactive.
Recalculate
On an Editing period:
- Regenerate, in the Schedule tab, keeps locked cells and erases other adjustments;
- Run the calculation again, in the band, resumes a calculation that failed;
- Go back to input hands over to the physicians (Close input).
What is refused
- "Nobody takes part in this period": set the participants in the Settings tab.
- "The team has not been informed yet": Inform the team first.
- "A calculation is already running for this period": wait for it to finish.
If something is wrong
- The calculation exceeds the time allowed, or fails: Run the calculation again, or Go back to input to ease the constraints.
- A slot stays empty: nobody could take it. It appears at the top of "To fix".