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Words that mean different things

A few everyday words are used in more than one place in Markular. This page pins down what they mean so you know which one you are looking at.

"Schedule"​

Most of the time, your schedule is the work planned for you over time: the on and off days you are assigned, backward and ahead. It shows up in a few places under slightly different names, but they all describe the same thing: when and which days you work. The one exception is Timekeeper's Work Schedules, which is about hours per day, not which days.

  • Rotation: the on/off cycle you are planned on, such as three weeks on and three weeks off. This is what actually decides which days are working days. Set up in Planner.
  • My Schedule (Workspace): your own scheduled work as a calendar, past and future: the on and off days from your rotation, plus any activities. It is your personal view of your rotation. See View my schedule.
  • Schedule board (Planner): the planning grid where planners build and read everyone's rotations, jobs, and demands over time. See Read the plan.
  • Work Schedules (Timekeeper → Settings): the exception. These are daily start-and-end-hour templates (for example 07:00–15:00, 7.5 hours), held per country. They define how long a standard workday is, not which days you are on. They feed onshore timesheet defaults and the Recalculate action. See Manage work schedules.

So: an offshore timesheet is pre-filled from your rotation (which days you work), not from a Timekeeper Work Schedule.

"Shift" and "shift pattern"​

  • Shift: a single daily working pattern, such as a day shift or a night shift, with its own start and end times.
  • Shift pattern: a named group of shifts that belong together, such as a "12 Hour Shift" pattern holding a Day shift and a Night shift. In Planner settings you manage shift patterns; the individual shifts live inside them.