General Color and Character Formatting 

Use

The General Color and Character Formatting feature allows you to specify which colors and character formats are used to display each shift and business situation in your shift plans.
The term ‘business situation’ is used to refer to events that may occur during your planning phase.
These include:

·        Changed or unsaved shifts

·        Working times that deviate from shift abbreviations

·        Info columns for additional employee data

·        Name columns in shift plans

·        Additional shifts exist for each day (except availabilities)

·        Lead columns in Requirements Matchup

·        ‘Days off’ exist (day type <> 0)

·        Working time preference exists

·         Information about the shift exists

·         Marking for special days

 

The shades for the available colors are:

·         Normal

·         Intensive

·         Inverted

The character formats are:

·         Normal

·         Bold

·         Italics

·         Underlined

Color and character formatting is defined on the basis of shift groups, as it can be assumed that the same color and character formats are always used within an organizational unit, represented by the shift group. A shift planner can then easily identify information that was created using color and character formats.

As only one color can be displayed in each cell, collisions may sometimes occur, for example if a business situation is defined with the same color as a shift abbreviation or a requirements coverage status. In such an instance, settings that are made for general color and character formatting take precedence over any settings that relate to specific shifts. This scenario is based on priorities that are set for individual settings.

You can define the General Color and Character Formatting settings in the IMG for Shift Planning, under Specify Shift Groups.

You can also specify the colors used for shift abbreviations in the same step.

You can define the colors to be used for the various stages of requirements coverage in the IMG for Shift Planning, under Define Icons, Colors and Character Formatting for Requirements Matchup. In this way, any related information can be easily identified in the shift plan.