Outlook needs the ability to setup a kelly shift schedule.

[Guest]

I work in the public Safety industry as a firefighter and Emergency Medical
Technician. Most people in my field work on a schedule called a Kelly Shift.
A "shift" is defined as one 24 hour work period. Mine is from 0600 to 0600,
but that can vary. The way a kelly shift breaks down is:

work a shift - off a shift - work a shift - off a shift - work a shift - off
4 shifts - repeat

A "rotation" is the period between your 4 shifts off when you're working.
Each rotation is made up of the 3 shifts you work and the 2 you are off.

Kind of confusing and maybe a little hard to understand? Yes, and it is just
as hard to enter this schedule into Outlook. Outlook does not allow you to
set such a "reoccurance" which makes it very hard to enter my work schedule.
I have searched for an Add-In of some sort with no luck. I would LOVE to see
Microsoft allow a user to enter wider variety of work patterns on their
calendar, or anything to fix my problem.

I use Microsoft Outlook 2003 SP1.



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[Guest]

I work in the public Safety industry as a firefighter and Emergency Medical
Technician. Most people in my field work on a schedule called a Kelly Shift.
A "shift" is defined as one 24 hour work period. Mine is from 0600 to 0600,
but that can vary. The way a kelly shift breaks down is:

work a shift - off a shift - work a shift - off a shift - work a shift - off
4 shifts - repeat

A "rotation" is the period between your 4 shifts off when you're working.
Each rotation is made up of the 3 shifts you work and the 2 you are off.

Kind of confusing and maybe a little hard to understand? Yes, and it is just
as hard to enter this schedule into Outlook. Outlook does not allow you to
set such a "reoccurance" which makes it very hard to enter my work schedule.
I have searched for an Add-In of some sort with no luck. I would LOVE to see
Microsoft allow a user to enter wider variety of work patterns on their
calendar, or anything to fix my problem.

I use Microsoft Outlook 2003 SP1.



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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...e62c9&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring

 

[Guest]

I too work shifts and would like to use the calender in outlook to log my
shift pattern. At the moment I work two 12 hour nights (1900 ~ 0700)
followed by two days off then two 12 hour days (0700 ~ 1900) and two off.
Whatever I hit on Friday I do Saturday & Sunday the same.

We will be reverting back to a three shift cycle shortly. Mon to Fri days
(7-3) followed Mon - Fri on afternoon shifts (3 - 11) and then Mon - Friday
Nights (11 - 7). In between we will also do some overtime at the weekends.

I would love an easy way of setting up this type of shift schedule. Please
help the lowly shift workers.