The following changes were released to On-Call Optimizer in March 2025
Assignment Groups provide a way to limit the members eligible to be assigned to a shift to a subset of the members in the schedule.
This allows for common use-cases such as gradually introducing new members to the schedule or reducing the workload of team members with additional duties to be managed directly within the schedule, where previously supporting these use-cases required creating additional nested schedule.
The nested schedule functionality remains available and can also be used together with assignment groups as required.
More details on setting up assignment groups can be found in the schedule configuration documentation.
Members can now opt in to having swap requests automatically triggered for any shift that conflicts with a block in their availability information, helping to maintain schedule quality with minimal manual intervention.
There are two situations in which these types of conflicts can occur and from which an automatic swap request can be triggered:
In both cases, once the swap request has been triggered, the normal swap processing logic is followed to find another member able to accept the shift.
Automatic swap requests are disabled by default and must be turned on by each member from their profile page.
More details on this feature are available in the swap documentation.
Availability preferences and blocks are now weighted based on how much they overlap with a shift, providing more flexible and accurate schedule generation.
Previously, any amount of overlap between an availability entry and a shift resulted in the entire shift being blocked or preferred for that member. In the case of schedules with a weekly shift pattern, this means that a single hour preference or block event on a member’s calendar would result in the entire week-long shift being preferred or blocked for the member!
On-Call Optimizer will now weight these overlaps proportionally when considering the cost/benefit of assigning each shift to a particular member:
More details on how the weighting is applied can be found in the availablity documentation.
In addition to the changes described above, the following bug fixes and minor changes were also released in March 2025.
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