Working hours

Working hours is a custom entity that allows you to configure working hours of your resources in the Schedule Board. This feature was designed for the resco.FieldService project (since release 14.3), but it can be potentially reused for other organizations that use Schedule Board.

Necessary entities

The following entities are necessary for this feature:

• Working hours (fs_workinghours) - allow you to save different working hours under a name
• Company settings (fs_settings) - select one of the configured working hours as the company default (the entity must have a lookup to the Working hours entity)
• Resource (fs_resource) - select one of the configured working hours for each resource (or other entity that you are using for your Schedule Board; the entity must have a lookup to the Working hours entity)

Defining working hours

When you create a form for the Working hours entity, the form automatically includes an editor.

The hours are saved in the Data field. If you need to work with the data directly, it is saved in JSON format. The numbers are in minutes.

{
  "workingHours": [
    [],
    [
      {
        "start": 480,
        "end": 780
      },
      {
        "start": 840,
        "end": 1140
      }
    ],
    [
      {
        "start": 480,
        "end": 960
      }
    ],
    [],
    [],
    [],
    null
  ],
  "workingHolidays": false
}

Associate resources with working hours

Once the working hours are defined, you can associate them, either as the default setting of the organization, or with a particular resource.

Working hours in action

If everything is properly configured, you can see the working hours highlighted in the Schedule Board timetable. Note that Luke's working hours are different from other team members.