io workers app not showing shift time set & sent out in lead

Kayla M. shared this question 2 months ago
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My staff are getting really frustrated with the IO Worker App.


The App does not reflect the Shift Time that we set & send out to them, only the general timeline for the customer.


This has resulted in a lot of confusion. Our events are very customized with a lot of variables, sometimes multiple shift start times for different teams for the same event. Is there any plan to make the Worker App more friendly for workers?

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How are they seeing their shift in the IO worker App?

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They see basic details like the timeline, but the timeline doesn't always coincide with the actual Shift they've been sent. This specific example has 3 different shift start times for different teams. They see these times in the Texts & the Emails, but if they use the Workers App, they're now confused on when they're supposed to start, because the specific shift we've assigned is no where in the app.

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Sorry for the questions. It's just to maybe help give a better answer. The actual shift being per lead or overall (as in the shift contains multiple leads)?

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For comparison. The shifts in the screenshot on the right looks like the shift would start about 4p and go till 1230a. What does their assigned shift look like?

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Shifts are sent out per lead. I know one of our management team has tried to explain many times what we want out of the app for our team to developers. I'm about to tell our 60+ part time staff to delete the app all together. There is no way to get the Shift from lead into the app for some reason.

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This person's assigned shift in the screenshot is 5:30pm - 10:45pm

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I'm not a developer or work for IO but I've been able to help others figure things out.

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Give up Kayla. I've been over this with them. There is no sane and reasonable answer for this one.

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You can go to Settings-->App templates and add the workerlist variable to one of the organization templates. It won't show on a calendar or anything currently..but when they click on the lead theyd be able to see everyone scheduled on the lead. Until more updates done to app the only way to see the full shift info would be on the workers site

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Are more updates coming so that the shift variables can work in the app?

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I don't have an update on these specific variables. We've just been told the app isn't completely done yet and there will be future updates

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Dang, so what your looking for is the templates that only work on specific emails to work in the app. I hope they get that fixed. 

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Yep, and the official response from IO that I got months ago was "I don't know why you would want to do that." Which, if I'm being totally honest, makes me want to run away from this company as fast as my legs can take me. Because if you don't understand why I would want my staff to easily be able to determine when they need to show up, I don't want you anywhere near any business I'm a part of.

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Arguably, they can determine that but it doesn't have to be on the lead itself. Putting a calendar on the app similar to the workers site (but extremely updated) would also suffice, imo.

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If the workerlist variable will display the correct information, I can help you make it scrollable so they can find their name and associated shift time.

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It doesn't. Best I can get is travel duration, it seems. If I could use some sort of formula or script to do some math, we could use the setup start time and subtract duration from it to give us a shift start time that would be accurate 9/10 times... But I'm not aware of any way to do that. Formatting options are endless however! Lol

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Basically, this is my current work around for this silly thing

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Ok. So here's an idea. They have the number in their phone. What if you highlight the word "text" and create a link to open their SMS app with that number? Then it will be a quick link to see the hours that were texted.

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Let me give that a try and see!

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