Concept: Schedule Patterns

Schedule patterns are recurring sets of start, end, and meal times that occur over a 7-day period. Work schedule calendars can contain either schedule patterns or calendar events. Schedule patterns and calendar events can both support multiple sets of start and end times, and multiple meals, per day. However, self-service workers can't edit work schedule calendars that use calendar events. Self-service workers can edit work schedule calendars that use schedule patterns when the pattern is less than 2 weeks long.

When you enable managers to create and assign worker-specific schedules, those schedules are based on schedule patterns, not calendar events.

The

Pattern Start Date

determines the first day of a pattern (the

Pattern Start Day

, which controls which day displays first when you edit scheduled days individually). The

Pattern Start Date

also determines when the patterns begin cycling. The

My Schedule

report begins weeks based on your locale preferences, regardless of when the

Pattern Start Day

is.