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Last Updated: 2025-02-07
Steps: Set Up Shifts

Steps: Set Up Shifts

Shifts enabled in your environment. To enable, create a Product Support Case with Workday VNDLY Support.
You can define and maintain shift needs within Workday VNDLY. This ability allows companies to use defined blocks of time (shifts) to identify gaps in their schedule that need to be filled to avoid downtime. Companies can also compensate hard-to-fill times differently to incentivize workers.
  1. From the header, select
    More
    Company Settings
    . 
  2. From the
    Security
     section, click
    Security Settings
    .
  3. Add the
    shift.settings.edit
     and
    shift.settings.read
     permissions to security roles that require access to view and maintain shifts settings. 
    These settings must be added by an administrator role that has the
    settings.admin
     permission.
  4. Within
    Security Settings
    , add the following permissions to roles that require access to view, edit, and backdate shifts and shift differentials:
    • shift.differential.read
       to view shift differential on a job page.
    • field.shifts.update
       to override shifts, shift strategy, and shift differential on a job or work order.
    • Backdating shifts also require the
      workorder.modification.shifts_backdate.create
       permission.
Changes to
Shifts Settings
 are captured in the
Activity Log
.
Assign shifts to relevant jobs and work orders.