How to lock shifts by week in your schedule?

Locking shifts is an essential feature to secure schedule organization and prevent accidental changes. In this article, we explain step by step how to lock an individual employee's shifts or an entire week's schedule.

Why lock shifts?

Locking shifts allows you to:

• Prevent any unintentional changes to the schedule.
• Freeze a validated schedule.
• Save time by avoiding repeated manual adjustments.

Steps to lock shifts by week

Access the schedule management:

• Go to the Schedules menu.
• Open your team’s schedule view.

Select the shifts to lock:

• You can click on an individual shift or select a whole week.
• To lock an employee’s shifts for the period, right-click on their name.

Lock the selected shifts:

• Click the More (⋮) button in the top-right corner.
• Select the option “Lock selected shifts”.

Practical tips

• You can select multiple shifts at once before locking them.
• To unlock a shift, follow the same steps and choose “Unlock selected shifts”.

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Updated on: 08/09/2025