- Add Lunch or Breaks

Lunches or breaks can be added to shifts when they are first created or at any later time. Once you have added this information into a schedule week, it will be there when you Import those shifts into future schedules or if you save that week as a template. This information can be added in the shift description field for each shift and then the shift "Duration" can be manually set to account for any lunch or break time.

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So, for example, if you have an 8:15am to 5:15pm shift with a 1 hr lunch, you can enter those begin and end times and then enter hours as "8" and then in the shift description you could enter "Lunch at 2." The break times can then be displayed on the schedules for both helpers and coordinators to see.

You can quickly add this information to multiple shifts using the Multi-Shift Edit schedule view.

Note: When using this method, WhenToHelp does NOT allow you to graphically see and account for break times within the shifts. If you need to have accurate helper counts at all times, you could, as in the example above, create one shift from 8am-12pm and another shift from 1 to 5. This would allow you to have accurate counts on the Availability/Coverage view. Note that this might be awkward if helpers use the Tradeboard and would then need to post two shifts to trade in one day.