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When a user selects needed plan and clicks Expand Plan button, a window like the one below appears with the number of options available:

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Number of shifts to add/ Period to add shifts

The user can select between expanding plan by a number of shifts or by time:

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b) by period: system will expand all shifts according to definition. System creates maximum number of shifts that is possible for defined period.
The last shift that maybe partly out of the period is not created at all.

Use start date

Use start date - when option is ON & date is set, shifts will be created starting from the mentioned day only.
This is useful when you don't want any shifts to be generated for the past period.

Assign persons to newly created shifts?

If the user chooses No, empty shifts will be added to the plan;
If the user chooses Yes, persons from the last two shifts will be assigned to the newly created shifts and corresponding activities will be created.

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