How to change the date of a recurring shift

How to change the date of a recurring shift#

For: Manager You’ll need: A recurring shift.

Moving a recurring shift to a different date is the trickiest case in recurrence — the new date may or may not still match the pattern. Shiftavo shows one of three modals depending on what’s possible.

Change the date#

  1. Open the occurrence and edit its start date (or drag it to a new day on the calendar).

  2. Click ‘Save’.

The right modal opens automatically — keep reading.

The simple modal#

You’ll see this when the new date is unambiguous — for example, moving a daily shift forward by one day, or a weekly shift to a date that still matches the BYDAY rule.

It asks you to confirm the change with a single ‘Yes, change’ button, plus the usual ‘This’ / ‘Following’ / ‘All’ scope choice.

Tip

This is the most common case. Just confirm and you’re done.

The two-choice modal#

You’ll see this on weekly patterns with multiple weekdays — for example, a shift that runs every Mon, Wed, and Fri, where you’ve moved one occurrence from a Monday to a Tuesday.

It offers two ways forward:

Smart-replace the weekday

Replace Monday with Tuesday in the BYDAY rule from this date forward, so the series now runs Tue / Wed / Fri.

Shift the entire series

Move every following occurrence by the same offset — so Mon→Tue, Wed→Thu, Fri→Sat.

Tip

Pick ‘Smart-replace’ when you’ve changed which weekday this shift sits on. Pick ‘Shift the entire series’ when you want all weekdays in the pattern to slide together.

The daily-incompatible modal#

You’ll see this on a daily-with-interval pattern (for example, “every 3 days”) when the new date doesn’t divide evenly by the interval — the new date breaks the rhythm of the existing series.

The modal tells you the series has to be split: the old series ends here, and a new series starts on the new date with the same interval.

Tip

There’s no way around this — confirm the split, or cancel and pick a date that lands on the existing rhythm.

Verify it worked#

A success toast confirms the move and the calendar redraws to show the new pattern.