Assignments
in On Duty are distinct from schedules. Schedules determine
when employees work. Assignments determine what they will
do when they are working. There are two wizards for assignments:
the Automatic Assignment Wizard and the Manual Assignment Wizard.
Both wizards simplify aspects of filling positions with the right
people. Depending on how you set things up, the Automatic
Assignment Wizard will fill more or fewer positions. Some
departments fill vacancies based on rules and priorities...things
a computer program likes to work with. Other departments fill
vacancies based on intuition, judgment and other subjective factors...things
a computer program doesn't have a clue about. If you choose
to do more automatically, then you will have less work to do with
the Manual Assignment Wizard. If you choose to do more manually,
On Duty will make it quick, easy and painless.
The
assignment process in On Duty handles numerous complex situations.
For example, a particular patrol car might have a single person
assigned to it during the day shift, but two people assigned to
it in the evening. No problem. Another car might not
even be used during the early morning shift. No problem.
Some positions are always filled by the same employee when he or
she is working, but filled by a certain other employee when the
first one is off. No problem. Some positions should
be filled when vacant, and others left vacant if the permanently
assigned person isn't working. No problem. On Duty can
be configured to handle virtually any scheme for assigning employees
to jobs.
As
you can see from the screen above, filling unassigned positions
manually is a snap. Pick an open position from the list,
pick an employee and click the Assign button. Pick the next
position and the next employee and away you go. When you
run out of positions or employees (or in an ideal world, both
at the same time), you're done!
Sometimes,
you have to change an assignment after it is already made.
The following screen shows how easy it is to edit an existing
assignment. Once you pick the assignment from the list,
you can change the employee, the position, or both. Assignments
can also be deleted very easily, making both the position and
the employee available for new assignment.
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