Submit a single shift bid request for a Combination of Individual Shifts auction (for employees)

For a Combination of Individual Shifts auction, create a custom schedule by selecting one shift for each working day you want in the scheduling period.

In this type of auction, you can select one or more bid options, but once the request is approved, if Continuous Bidding is not enabled, you cannot submit any additional bid requests. Before the request is approved (for example, if it's in a Pending state), you can submit a single request multiple times. (If Continuous Bidding is enabled, you can submit a single request multiple times.)

For example, you can select the following:

One shift on Monday from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
One shift on Tuesday from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM.
One shift on Thursday from 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
One shift on Friday from 7:30 AM - 2:30 PM.
You do not want to work on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, so you do not select any shifts on these days.

Procedure

Go to Request Management. From Schedule Auctions, select Bid Options.
From the Auction Name column, select the auction you want.
From the Employee drop-down list, select the employee for whom you want to submit a single shift bid request for a Combination of Individual Shifts auction.
Optional. To limit the bid options displayed in the list, select a filter from the Filter drop-down list.
Optional. To view the skills required for a shift, from the Template Name column, select a shift template.

The system displays the skills and their proficiencies required for the shift. To return to the My Bid Options screen, select Done.
Optional. To view the details of a shift, select the shift from the date column that displays the shift time range.

The system displays the shift template name, time range, activities, and shift events for the shift.
Select the rows of the shift templates you want for the relevant days in the scheduling period.

For a Combination of Individual Shifts auction, you can only select one shift for each day. You cannot select two shifts that occur on the same day.

For example, you want to submit a shift bid request for shifts on Monday through Friday of the scheduling period. Therefore, select one shift template for a Monday shift, one shift template for a Tuesday shift, and one shift template for a Wednesday shift. You cannot select two different Monday shifts.
Select Create.
On the Shift Bid Request form, complete the following fields:
1. Bid Name: Name that describes the shift bid request.
2. Preference: Preference or priority of the shift bid request (1 is the highest preference.)
3. Use Points: Optional. When an auction is configured to use bonus points, select this check box to use bonus points for the shift bid request. Using points can affect the rank of shift bid requests.
4. Comments: Optional field to include comments about the shift bid request.
View the details about the selected auction, and the shifts you selected on your working days. For non-working days, a hyphen (-) appears.
Select Save.
The system saves your shift bid request, and updates the status of the request.

In addition, it now displays any alerts, and a history of updates related to the shift bid request.
Review your bid. If needed, you can edit the Bid Name, Preference and Comments fields, and select Save.
When you have finished with all changes to your shift bid request, select Save and Done.

To view all of your preferences in the Preference column at the top of the list, sort by the Preference column.

The Bid Options page is updated with the preferences saved for the submitted bids.

After a bid is submitted and the bid status is Pending or Escalated, you can change the preference value of the bid and resubmit it.