Notes:
  • A forecast-based schedule may take 20 minutes or longer to generate.
  • Agent must be configured to be schedulable to be included in generated schedule. Go to Workforce Management > Agents > Update Agent Schedulability
 

Workforce management includes common built-in schedule generation messages that you can encounter when you generate forecast-based schedules or schedules without forecasts. You can use the default level of severity for each message, or you can set your own preferences. Then, after you create a schedule, you can view any generated messages or warnings from the Schedules page.  

Schedule generation messages and their default severity levels

Click to expand the list to view each message and the default severity level.

Validation message Default severity

Agent is not configured to handle any work.

Information

Agent is not in a work plan.

Information

Agent not found in management unit. Either the agent is no longer in the management unit, or the management unit was not found in the business unit.

Warning

Agent not in selected management unit.

Warning

Could not schedule maximum consecutive working days between the previous and new schedules.

Information

Could not schedule maximum days off on the scheduling period(s) starting on (date start – date stop) between the previous and new schedules.

Information

Could not schedule maximum days off on the scheduling period(s) starting on (date start – date stop) due to full-day time-off request.

Information

Could not schedule maximum days off on the scheduling period(s) starting on (date start – date stop) between the previous and new schedules.

Information

Could not schedule maximum days off on the scheduling period(s) starting on (date start – date stop) due to paid time off request.

Information

Could not schedule maximum days off on the scheduling period(s) starting on (date start – date stop) between the previous and new schedules.

Information

Could not schedule minimum days off on the scheduling period(s) starting on (date start – date stop) between the previous and new schedules.

Information

Could not schedule minimum distance from previous day on (date start – date stop) between the previous and new schedules.

Information

Could not schedule minimum distance from previous day on (date start – date stop) due to ‘spring forward’ daylight savings time transition.

Information

Could not schedule minimum distance from the start of previous day on (date start – date stop) between the previous and new schedules.

Information

Could not schedule minimum distance from previous day on (date start – date stop) due to ‘spring forward’ daylight savings time transition.

Information

Could not schedule minimum paid time on the scheduling period(s)  starting on (date start – date stop) between the previous and new schedules.

Information.

Could not schedule minimum paid time on the scheduling period(s)  starting on (date start – date stop) due to unpaid time-off request.

Information

Could not schedule required maximum paid time on (date start – date stop) due to paid time-off request.

Information

Could not schedule required maximum weekly paid time on the week(s) starting on (date start – date stop) due to paid time-off request.

Information

Could not schedule required minimum paid time on (date start -date stop) due to unpaid time off request.

Information

Could not schedule required minimum weekly paid time on (date start -date stop) due to unpaid time off request.

Information

Could not schedule required minimum weekly work days on the week(s) starting on (date start – date stop) due to full-day time-off request.

Information

Could not schedule required workday on (date start – date stop) due to full-day time-off request.

Information

Agent is not configured to be schedulable

Warning

There is no work available on (date start – date stop).

Warning

Unable to produce agent schedule.

Warning

Work plan not enabled.

Information

Work plan not found.

Warning

Set up severity levels for schedule generation messages

Each message is automatically set to a default severity; however, when you create a business unit, you can set your own desired level of severity. These severity levels are:

  • Error: The highest priority that you can set on a message.
  • Information: The lowest priority that you can set on a message.
  • Warning: The priority is higher in severity than Information, but lower than Error.
  • Ignore: The message does not appear during a work plan or schedule generation result.

 To access and set severity levels, follow these steps:

  1. Click Admin.
  2. Under Workforce Management, click Schedules.
  3. From the Business Unit list, located in the upper right corner, select the business unit.
  4. Select the schedule for which you want to view warnings.
  5. Click Generate Schedule. The Schedule Generation Warnings page opens.
  6. Review the warnings and when finished, click OK.

View messages and their severity level after you generate a schedule

After you generate forecast-based schedules or schedules without forecasts, review any generated messages from the Schedules page. 

  1. Click Admin.
  2. Under Workforce Management, click Schedules.
  3. From the Business Unit list, located in the upper right corner, select a business unit.
  4. (Optional) To change the time zone in which you view data, in the upper right hand corner select the current time zone list.
    Note: By default, the view uses the business unit’s time zone.
  5. If you have not created a schedule or work plan, do one of the following:
  6. In the Generation Results column view the number of errors.
  7. In the Schedule page’s Generation Results column, click an error to open a detailed list of results.

View and manage details about the schedule generation results

From the Schedule page’s Generation Results column, click a message to open a detailed list of results. Here, you can:

  • Review the list of messages and the severity for each message encountered during schedule generation.
  • Click the Filter Severities list to narrow the list by error, warning, or information, or choose to view all severities.+
  • Click Copy Support Info to Clipboard to compile the list and deliver to the appropriate individuals in your organization.
  • Click Include ignored messages to add messages marked as Ignore to your error list.
    Note: You must also select Ignore from the Filter Severities list to view ignored messages.