Copying schedules

If your weeks look mostly alike, don't rebuild them — copy them. Schedio can duplicate a whole week or a single day, and it never overwrites work you've already done.

Copy a week

The Copy week control sits in the header of the Schedule page. It duplicates the shifts of the week you're looking at, with people still assigned. You choose where the copy goes:

• Next week
• In 2 / 3 / 4 weeks
• Multiple weeks — any number up to 26
• Until end of month

So if Maria has the last week of May dialed in at Northside Inn, she can copy it across all of June in one go.

Days that already have shifts are skipped

Copying is safe: any target day that already has shifts on it is skipped entirely, so you can't overwrite a day you've already adjusted. The result message tells you exactly what happened — "Copied X shifts. Skipped Y day(s) that already had shifts."

If a day was skipped that you actually wanted replaced, clear its shifts first and copy again.

Copy a single day

The Copy day dialog copies one day's shifts to other days. You'll see checkboxes for this week's days — the day you're copying from is marked "Source" — and you can also add any other dates outside the current week. Useful when Saturday's lineup should repeat on Sunday, or when a holiday Monday should run like a typical Friday.

Copies are a starting point

A copied week is rarely the final week. Treat it as a draft: copy, then adjust for time off, swaps, and demand. Combined with shift templates from the templates rail, copying is the fastest way to keep a steady week rolling — and if you'd rather have Schedio propose assignments for the gaps that remain, run Auto-fill afterwards.