Bulk updating shifts in your schedule allows you to make a large number of changes with less effort than updating shifts individually. This action will update / edit shifts already on the schedule. If you want to bulk import/add new shifts to your schedule you should instead read Bulk import schedule and timesheets.

IMPORTANT: Deputy works on a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) basis, so using Bulk Updates means making changes to all shifts that are currently visible on your Schedule page - see Schedule filtering for more information.

• How to display the desired set of shifts on your schedule to update
• How to make bulk update to shifts
• What shift fields can I bulk update?
  • Start time
  • End time
  • Meal and Rest break length
  • Team member
  • Area
  • Comment
  • Publish status
• Other bulk action options on the schedule

Before you can apply bulk updates to any shifts, you need to ensure only the shifts you wish to update are displayed on the Schedule page.

As shown in the example below, you can use the following selectors at the top of the Schedule page to filter the shifts that are displayed:

When viewing the Schedule in View by Area, you can also hide specific areas on the schedule to further filter and only display the shifts you wish to update.

You can click on the arrow next to the Area name to collapse and expand the schedule.

In the example below a filter has been applied to display shifts for:

• Location: The Azure
• Time Period: week of 21st - 27th Feb
• Areas: Front Desk and Admin
• The filtered result displays 21 shifts on the schedule ready for bulk update.

When viewing the Schedule in View by Team Member you can also use the search bar at the top of the team member list on the Schedule to select specific team members' shifts to display.

In the example shown below, the 2 week by Team member view is displayed and then Akira's name is entered in the search bar to filter to show just Akira's shifts so the manager can bulk update them to be covered by Chris for those two weeks.

For more information on how to filter your Schedule effectively read Schedule Filtering and Management.

Once you have filtered the Schedule to only display shifts you wish to make updates to then:

3. Select a field to apply the update to and click on Apply Update!

This will update all the visible shifts' start times to the time you specify in minute increments.

This will update all the visible shifts' end times to the time you specify in minute increments.

This allows you to add a meal or Rest break to every shift visible, in 15 minute increments from 0 to 240 minutes.

Team Member allows you to replace the current team member's shifts displayed with another team member.

Utilise the Team Member View and other selectors described above to ensure you are only displaying the shifts you wish to replace prevent accidentally assigning every shift on a schedule to a single team member.

This option will take all displayed shifts and place them into an Area as specified by you.

This option will add a shift comment to all displayed shifts.

Publish status will allow you to bulk update the shift publish status. You can select one of the two following:

• Not Published
• Published

When you open the Options menu in the Schedule you can see that in addition to Bulk Updates there are other bulk actions you can apply to your schedule including:

• Remove All Team Members
• Remove Empty Shifts
• Delete All Shifts
• Mark Empty Shifts as Open

All of these options function in the same way as described for Bulk Updates. That is, the action will only be applied to the shifts that are displayed on the Schedule.

In the example below, the manager wants to delete all shifts on the selected week from the Area, South Room.

1. The Areas other than "South Room" are hidden on the Schedule by clicking on the arrows. (You can also expand and collapse all areas at once by selecting Expland/Collapse all from the Options menu.

2. Click on Options (Sprocket icon)

3. Select Delete All Shifts from the menu.

4. Click Remove.

You can see that when the schedule is expanded out only the shifts from the Area South Room were deleted but the other shifts on the Schedule remain.