Put a longer day on the schedule, not just a shorter one

Departments can now record a day people work more hours, alongside the days they work fewer or none at all. It is the same entry either way: name the days, name the hours, and those hours become the day. A week of doubles is 06:00 to 18:00 with a break in the middle. A ten-hour Friday to make a due date is one entry on one day.

Availability does the same for one person, a handful of people, or a whole team. Pick who, pick Extra hours, and the hours you give them replace their normal day for as long as the entry runs. Somebody can be down for a longer week and still call in sick on the Wednesday. The sick day is taken off the longer day, not the one they used to have.

Breaks come along. A person whose regular day is 08:00 to 16:00 with a half hour for lunch still gets that half hour on a 06:00 to 16:00 day, so the day counts as nine and a half hours worked rather than ten.

A day nobody normally works needs saying out loud. Tick include days they do not normally work and a Saturday becomes a working Saturday. Leave it clear and an entry that happens to span a weekend leaves the weekend alone, which is what you want when you are shortening a week around a holiday.

Set an entry to repeat and it stays one thing afterwards. Open any occurrence and you can change or cancel just that day, that day and every one after it, or all of them at once. Moving a standing Wednesday off school no longer means opening twenty-six records.

The two department tabs are now Holidays for the whole department and Availability for one person at a time.

Timesheets and Planning both follow. A longer day expects longer hours, so somebody who works eight of a ten-hour day reads as short rather than as done. Planning marks every schedule change on the person's row, whichever way it moves the day: their time off, a longer or shorter day of their own, and their department's closures and shortened days. Hover or click a mark to see the reason. When more than one applies to a day, the person's own record wins over the department's, and an absence wins over everything.

That same order now decides the hours a day is measured against everywhere, including the timesheet and the payroll push. Give somebody hours on a day their department is closed and they are on the schedule for those hours. Before, the closure won and the day counted as nothing for them.