🎊Happy new year!

We added a feature to allow Slack's Multi and Single Channel Guests syncing.

You can find the option in your organization's Slack settings here:

Activate it, and 🪄poof it's done. Guest users are automatically synced and available for your teams.

Enjoy!

WADUP scheduling fans?

A brand new multi-calendar view

Today we released a brand new multi-calendar view that looks like this:

🧪The feature is behind a flag, so if you want to access it, just let me know via the support bubble, and I'll give it to you immediately.

This new calendar feature is a clone of Google Calendar, a UI I like, but for team scheduling. Right now, it serves as a view-only mode for all the shifts you created, but very soon, this will be the unique way to interact with TurnShift. You'll be able to create events and book them directly from this multi-calendar view.

Private channels, with no security changes

We also released a way to send notifications and change topics on private channels. Our syncing mechanism is still 100% secure as:

• We can't list all your private channels
• We can only access the private channels you will add TurnShift to
• We never store the names of the channels (private or public)

If you have any questions then use the support menu on the left.

Best, Vincent.

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👋, here's what we released today:

Customize channels topics

You can now add text before/after the TurnShift topic status. This is useful when you're using the channel topics to point to various resources like a Support handbook for employees.

Go to schedules > settings > notifications 👇

And here's the resulting topic:

Channel topics & multiple shifts

We now support multiple shifts linked to the same channel when updating the topic. We merge their status into a single concise channel topic. Here's how it looks:

Tip: Be sure to set the same channel topic for all shifts linked to the same channel.

New notifications panel and settings

Since Slack notifications are more and more customizable, we created a dedicated tab for them and took the opportunity to put all schedules settings in the same place.

There are also new granular notifications settings:

• enable/disable sending a direct message when a shift start (default to true)
• enable/disable sending a direct message to people when someone else assigns them a shift or cancels one of their shift (default to true)
• enable/disable sending a direct message when people have shifts for the next day (default to true)
• enable/disable sending a direct message to people with their next week shifts (default to true)

We also took the opportunity to better explain when are those notifications sent.

Other changes

• We now update channel topics if you book/unbook a shift for the current day. So the topic is always up-to-date.
• We fixed a bug around the detection of shift's running statuses when the shift timezone was already in the next day.
• We fixed a bug where deprecated time zone names (coming from Slack) were not taken into account. We use https://github.com/vvo/tzdb and this was fixed here now.
• We fixed a bug around detecting the number of shifts to book per schedule when you're a member of multiple schedules

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We just released a new Slack home for the TurnShift Slack application. It allows you to access your TurnShift data without leaving Slack. Super handy to quickly check the current active schedules and their assignees, your next shifts, or if you have shifts to book.

To access it, just go to the "TurnShift" conversation (CMD/CTRL + K then "turnshfit")

Hope you like it!

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Hey there! You can now choose to which email TurnShift receipts should be sent along with the language you want them in.

Voilà des factures en Français !

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Hey there, you can now enable or disable shift start/end channel messages for each schedule.

You can configure this here:

As a reminder, you can also enable / disable shift start / end topic updates.

See ya!

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Hi there, starting from today, every Friday at 11:45 am your time zone, the TurnShift bot will send you a direct message on Slack that summarizes your next week's bookings if any.

And it looks like this:

Hope you like it!

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Hi there, before this update next day booking notifications were sent at 1:45pm (shift time). So if your shift time zone is Paris then it would be sent at 1:45pm Paris time.

We changed that and now we use the assignee's time zone (that we get from Slack) to send notifications for any next day bookings at 11:45am every day.

We also show any time zone difference between you and the shift time zone, along with the exact date.

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👋 Hi there!

We've been busy piling up new features and fixes. Here's a summary of all the recent changes:

7/7 support

You can now activate Saturday and Sunday as shift days. Previously this was not feasible, mostly because our first users were not working through the weekends. Head over your schedule settings to configure it.

Adjust the number of shifts per day

You can now adjust the number of shifts for each day of the week. This is particularly useful when:

• you want to do 7/7 days support (activate Saturday and Sunday)
• you have regular busier days (Monday!)
• you have regular quieter days (Friday?)

Access this feature on the scheduling settings screen:

Adjust the number of shifts for a particular date

You can now override the number of shifts for a particular date. This is useful when you exceptionally need more people (black Friday) or fewer/no people at all (company holidays).

Here's how to do it:

Limit the maximum number of shifts assigned to team members

By default, TurnShift computes a booking plan automatically. This is handy because you don't have to manually calculate the number of shifts to book per assignee.

But there are cases where you absolutely don't want people to be tasked with more than one shift (or more) per month. You can now configure that in the schedule settings:

Other changes:

• mobile rendering is now good enough in most places, allowing you to administrate schedules and book shifts on the run
• booking plans are now always up to date, reflecting changes in schedule settings, number of shifts, teams, and team members
• fixed a bug where we would send "You have to book undefined shifts this month" 😹
• added a "There's a new version of TurnShift" banner for people keeping a tab open on TurnShift (you know who you are)

On the tech side

• we upgraded all of our dependencies
• we now build for es6 browsers only (bye-bye IE11)
• we added sentry alerts everywhere
• we moved to Node 14.x
• we moved to Next.js latest version

🙌 Happy scheduling

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You can now view the booking plan for a particular schedule. Get an overview of who booked all required shifts and who still needs to book some.

Have a great week!