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QuickSchedule

by Darrell Nicholas

Allow managers of small businesses (or anybody tasked with making out schedules) to quickly change the schedule at a moment's notice. Using the iPhone app, you can configure any number of employees and work shifts as well as assign them to those shifts as you see fit. Well now with the Watch App. You can do any or all of the assignments right on the watch. You can also make any changes to the schedule as well as see at a glance, which employee is assigned to which shift as well as see each employee's total assigned hours for the week. If you feel you need to make a change, it is 2 taps on the watch and the change is made. Simply tap the shift, and then the employee list slides into view, and tap the employee you want to assign to that shift.

Features

Assign Employees to Schedule

It takes 2 taps to assign, or reassign any employee to a shift. You simply tap the shift, then tap the employee and that's it! You're done! It can't get any quicker or easier than that.

Employees' hours before assignment

As you can see, if you like, you can completely assign the whole schedule right from the watch. This is a screen shot of an employee list with nobody assigned to any shifts yet. You can see that everyone's hours are still at "0:00".

Schedule after assigning Tim Cook to Shift 1

This is a shot of the app, right after we gave Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, his first assignment. You may laugh, but this could very well be used to organize a volunteer event for charity. Maybe this is going to be the speaking line-up for WWDC. If so, looks like Tim has a lot in store for us...

Complete Hours for the Week

This is a screen shot of the app after we have assigned employees for a whole week. This is of course a fictional work week, but it shows what 7 days/2 shifts per day with 4 employees could look like. Of course, since Tim is on salary, we will give him more hours, and I'm lazy, so 16 is fine for me.

Empty Schedule

This is an empty schedule. This much the app makes for you. You can go in and configure, add, or remove any or all of these shifts. Here you would pick a shift to assign someone to and tap it.

Bottom of a fully filled schedule

This is the bottom of a fully filled out schedule. You could add more shifts than the 2 per day I have here, but this is just for illustration. You can look over the schedule and see who is scheduled for when at any time. It's all fully filled out, if the names you use are longer, they will wrap.

Developer

Darrell Nicholas

Part-time iOS developer, aspiring to go full-time. I currently work as an ATM Technician for a very large company. I have been programming, and learning to program in my spare time and on weekends, vacations, holidays (etc.) for the last 4 years, 3 of which has been solely for iOS and Mac. I have technically 2 apps in the App Store, QuickSchedule, and the QuickSchedule Watch App. I have many more ideas for projects and one project that is very close to completion and will ship this year, probably this summer. A lot of the timeline for release depends on what Apple comes out with at WWDC. I have an iOS related website, that explains a little more about me and has some articles I have written. I created the site to sort of be a springboard of direction for new, self-taught developers. I know I spent a lot of time just trying to find the best resources to teach myself this amazing craft. I have grown so much in my development skills since I first published QuickSchedule, and along the way, I have come to know where the best sources of information are located and how to wade through the waters of scam artists who promise the world, but deliver very little. Finally, I thought it was time to branch out from just another blog on development, so I created a weekly curated newsletter of the latest and greatest sources of iOS learning and tech-related resources. My newsletter is called "iOS Tech/Learning Resources Weekly", not too catchy, but it is what it sounds like. If you want to sign up, it's free and you can do it at http://newsletter.darrellnicholas.com. I never sell anyone's email, heck I never even look at the email addresses, I don't have time. It takes a lot of time to churn out the newsletter, the blog, and of course apps - all while holding down a non-iOS development job. My next app, it is huge...