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Understand Auto-Assign diagnostics

Identify the rule or shortage that prevented coverage.

For: Organization Admin
For: Department Manager

What diagnostics show

For each uncovered shift, diagnostics show required and filled positions, location shortages and why candidate employees could not be used.

Common causes

  • The employee is on leave.
  • The assignment would overlap another shift.
  • The employee reached a weekly-hours limit.
  • A work-pattern or shift-transition rule excludes the date.
  • Required rest would be violated.
  • The employee cannot satisfy the required location.
  • There are not enough active employees for the requested headcount.

Resolve a shortage

Correct the underlying data, reduce or move demand, or assign an employee manually when you have reviewed the warning. Rerun Auto-Assign for the affected range and compare the new diagnostics.

Verified against ElShift · Aug 6, 2026

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