Unpublish the schedule

If you published the schedule and want to make more changes before making it available to employees, you can unpublish the current schedule. You can unpublish schedules for specific dates and employees.

Unpublishing makes the schedule unavailable for viewing or shift swapping Feature in WFM that allows employees to change shifts with another employee.. When employees try to view schedules for dates that are not published, a message is displayed, stating that the schedules are not published.

Note the following about unpublishing schedules:

Once you unpublish a schedule, you can no longer revert to that published schedule. Therefore, if the draft schedule is different, you have no general fallback to the old published one.
Unpublishing could result in time-off allocations being released. This action can have other implications, such as impacting the approval of new requests.

Before you begin

Publish the schedule

Procedure

From the left pane Employees filter, select the employees for whom you want to unpublish components, and select Apply.

The selected employees appear on the calendar. You can only unpublish schedules for employees who appear on the calendar.
From the calendar, select the employees for whom you want to unpublish schedules.
From Tools, select Unpublish.
From Employees on the right side of the screen, select the employees for whom you want to unpublish schedules.

The employees you selected from the calendar are already selected. You can change this selection, as needed.
From Dates, select the date range for which you want to unpublish schedules:
- To unpublish schedules for the current scheduling period, select Current scheduling period.
- To unpublish the schedule for specific days and times:
  - Select Custom.
  - In the Start and End fields, enter the dates and times accordingly.
From Components to unpublish, select one of the following:
- To unpublish the entire draft schedule, select All.
  
  If you select All, unpublishing could result in time-off allocations being released. This action can have other implications, such as impacting the approval of new requests.
- To unpublish all scheduled components except for time-off events, select All except time-off events.
Select Unpublish.

A warning message appears, prompting you to confirm unpublishing the schedule.

Once you unpublish a schedule, you can no longer revert to the published schedule. Therefore, if the draft schedule is different, you have no general fallback to the old published one.
Once you are sure that you want to unpublish a schedule, select OK.