This is an advantage over employee scheduling systems such as ABC Roster and Sling because they don't (as far as I can tell, I might be wrong) offer functionality to import employee availabilities/constraints via a file upload. Employee availability data can be easily obtained from services such as Microsoft Forms without performing manual work per employee. This is a valuable feature for my purposes, since I can then write scripts to add employees to our systems, instead of copying changes over manually. The current system I have developed, critically, allows inputting employee information/employee availability and constraints/shift data in CSV files, and outputs allocations in a CSV file (the main use-case). Also allows tweaking of the allocations via a GUI by the manager.Allows automatic updates of the allocations when availabilities of employees change (ideally employees would request this in a website and require no interaction from the manager).

Allows uploading and downloading of data and allocations in easily machine-readable formats, such as CSV (preferably not Excel, definitely not PDF, and definitely not manually copying the information).I thought of making this project since I could not find any free solutions which satisfied my needs perfectly in scheduling employees into shifts. A Java command-line tool for scheduling Employee shifts, based on the OptaPlanner constraint solving engine.

Interactive employee scheduling system