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Granularity of Scheduler Notifications and New Reports

The Snap Schedule 365 development team is continually at work to improve the products you use every day as part of your operational activities.  We just released an update to Snap Schedule 365 that provides a couple of helpful items, and we wanted to share the news with you. Scheduler Notifications A recent update to Snap Schedule 365 added a new feature called Scheduler Notifications.  This allowed for schedulers to… Read More »Granularity of Scheduler Notifications and New Reports

New Sort Options for Snap Schedule 365

The Snap Schedule 365 development team added some new sort options to all of the schedule views.  You can now specify the sort order of both the rows and the data within the cells.  This provides you with much greater flexibility as to how you view your schedule data. Additionally, we’ve added a bunch of new fields to the sort options, and each view displays its own sort screen containing the… Read More »New Sort Options for Snap Schedule 365

Using Active Directory Federation Services for Single Sign On with Snap Schedule 365 ERA

IMPORTANT: All information in the following screenshots contain sample data that should be replaced with information specific to your ADFS configuration. Example server: Windows Server 2012 R2 w/ ADFS 3.0 @ adfs.ad.snapschedule.com How it works: Employees use employee codes and passwords to log in to Snap Schedule 365. However, your company policies may require these users to log in from your organization instead of directly into Snap Schedule 365. Therefore, you… Read More »Using Active Directory Federation Services for Single Sign On with Snap Schedule 365 ERA

April Showers Bring May Features

It’s been a bit of a soggy month here in Seattle, and while the persistent rain has kept the mossy-eared Snap Schedule development team inside, it certainly has produced some nice product enhancements.  We hope you’ll enjoy these new features! Employee Notification The most significant change to Snap Schedule 365 is the new Employee Notification engine.  It is now possible to notify employees that their work schedule has changed.  When a scheduler… Read More »April Showers Bring May Features

Using Active Directory Federation Services for Single Sign On with Snap Schedule 365

IMPORTANT: The information in the following screenshots contains sample data that should be replaced with information specific to your ADFS configuration. Example server: Windows Server 2012 R2 w/ ADFS 3.0 @ adfs.ad.snapschedule.com How it works: Schedulers enter user names and passwords to log in to Snap Schedule 365. However, your company policies may require these users to log in from your organization instead of directly into Snap Schedule 365. Therefore, you… Read More »Using Active Directory Federation Services for Single Sign On with Snap Schedule 365

March Maintenance Update

The development team at Snap Schedule released a maintenance update to Snap Schedule 365 last night that included fixes to the following issues: Contact Information was missing from Employee property pages when invoked from within a report.  While no data was ever lost in this scenario, the contact information was not being displayed if the user clicked on a hyperlink from within a report. Shift assignment end time was miscalculated… Read More »March Maintenance Update

Right to Request Changes in Work Schedule without Fear of Retaliation

Vermont and the cities of Berkeley and San Francisco have taken steps to put into law protection for employees who request changes to their work schedule without fear of retaliation. While each law varies in parameters the intent across the board is to create a process in which employees can request a change to their schedule, and for employers to review and accept or deny the request. Many workers fear… Read More »Right to Request Changes in Work Schedule without Fear of Retaliation

A Couple of Snap Schedule 365 New Features for March

In like a lamb…  The development team at Snap Schedule added a couple of new features to Snap Schedule 365 last night.  They may not roar like a lion, but they were requested by customers, and we thought many people might find them useful. Convert Shift Assignments to Open Shifts When an employee calls in sick or has to cancel out of a shift assignment with little notice, one of the ways… Read More »A Couple of Snap Schedule 365 New Features for March

Snap Schedule 365 Minor Update

Last night, the development team pushed out a minor update to Snap Schedule 365.  There were a few small issues that we wanted to address quickly.  All were simple UI glitches that were resolved in the update.  Chances are, very few users were impacted, but we wanted to clean things up as best we can.  The issues that were fixed include: Time Off Requests for partial days were not registering the intended… Read More »Snap Schedule 365 Minor Update

Snap Schedule 365 Developers Sneak In New Features

Well, it looks like we’ve been caught. The development team here at Snap Schedule used to silently and seamlessly sneak updates into the products without anyone noticing or making a fuss.  No more.  The marketing folks are on to us, and suggested that we “announce” changes we make to the software. Sounds like a good idea, so we created this space for announcements like that.  If you’d like to be… Read More »Snap Schedule 365 Developers Sneak In New Features