Weekly Off Schedule

Business Requirement: The employee does not work for certain weeks of a year. A weekly off work schedule has to be attached to the employee.

Solution: Create a work shift, work pattern and work schedule of type duration and period type as off. If the work schedule is attached to an employee, the application will consider the person to be not working for the duration for which the work schedule is attached.

 1. Creating Work Shift

Go to Setup and Maintenance >  Search for Manage Work Shifts > Create

Name	Weekly_Off_Shift
Duration	24
Unit of Measure	Hours
Period Type	Off Period

2. Creating Work Pattern

Go to Setup and Maintenance >  Search for Manage Work Workday Patterns > Create

Name	Weekly_Off_Pattern
Sequence	1
Shift Name	Weekly_Off_Shift

  

 3. Creating Work Schedule

Go to Setup and Maintenance > Search for Manage Work Schedules > Create

Name	Weekly_Off_WS
Type	Duration
Effective from Date	12/28/15
Effective to Date	12/28/25
Pattern Sequence	1
Pattern Name	Weekly_Off_Pattern

Go to Setup and Maintenance > Search for Manage Work Schedules Assignment Administration > Search for the previously created Work Schedule Weekly_Off_WS

4.Assigning Work Schedule to Employee

Name	Weekly_Off_WS
Type	Duration
Effective from Date	12/28/15
Effective to Date	12/28/25
Pattern Sequence	1
Pattern Name	Weekly_Off_Pattern

Open Weekly_Off_WS 

Under Resource Assignment > Create 

Instead of Resource Type as Assignment, you can also choose Department, Employment Terms, Enterprise, Job, Legal Employer, Position, Location.

Now when the employee applies for leave during the period 1/4/16 to 1/15/16 , the application will throw an error message.