Copy a Published Workforce Schedule

You now can create workforce schedules from your Workforce Schedules page by copying a published schedule for the selected schedule generation profile and department or departments. The list of source periods only shows periods for with published schedule for the selected departments. You can copy only shifts, which creates only open shifts in the destination period. Or you can copy the shifts and assignments, which creates both open and assigned shifts in the destination period. If the assigned shift will have any validation errors in the destination period, you can decide whether to copy as-is, convert it to an open shift, or don't copy it.

Workforce Schedules Page Showing the Create Schedule Drawer

You can also copy the schedule for a single department. Use the More > Copy action on a published department schedule opened from the Workforce Schedules page.

Department Schedule Showing the More > Copy Action

Department Schedule Showing the Copy Schedule Drawer

This feature dramatically reduces the time spent on repetitive schedule creation, cuts down on manual errors, and lets schedule managers focus on optimizing staffing and supporting their teams. Streamlining this process also ensures consistency in coverage and supports higher planning accuracy.

Steps to Enable

You need to configure security to use this feature. See the Access Requirements section.

Access Requirements

The delivered Schedule Manager role includes this privilege, which lets schedule managers manage their workforce schedules. You need to assign it to any equivalent custom roles.

Privilege Name	Code	Description
Manage Workforce Schedule	ORA_HTS_MANAGE_WORKFORCE_SCHEDULE	Allows users to manage the workforce schedules they're responsible for.