MOW Scheduler Tutorials :: Schedule a Job on a Non-standard Day

The scenario is that you normally deliver Route 5 on MWF, but because of a holiday you want to deliver on Thursday next week. The goal is for Route 5 to show up "pink" (short-handed) on that specific Thursday on the Help Wanted and staff's Daily/Weekly schedules, so you can recruit a volunteer to fill it. But you don't want signups on other Thursdays.

Here's a recipe to make that happen:

  1. "Activate Shift" for Route 5 on Thursday on the Job Settings page
  2. Still in Job Settings, set "required" workers to 0 for newly active "job day" by clicking the "1" in the gray circle for required workers on the D position (or any other position that's not already 0) and change it to 0. This will prevent the job from appearing on the Help Wanted page and showing up pink (short-handed) on the staff's schedules on unwanted Thursdays.
  3. Find the specific Thursday you want to deliver on either the Daily or Weekly schedule, and click the magnifying glass icon in the Route 5 row to get to the "shift details" page for that job and date.
  4. Under Job Assignments, find the position you want to recruit for (i.e. Driver), and where it says "0 required" click the 0 and change it to 1.
  5. That's it...your Job will show up as short-handed only on the desired Thursday. In the future if you want to deliver on a different Thursday, you can skip the first 2 steps since the Job is already active (but not short-handed) on Thursdays.