The auto-scheduler is able to schedule volunteers at their preferred times because it creates a connection between the services on the schedule and the service preferences in volunteers' profiles. You can manually adjust how the auto-scheduler will fill a particular service from the skeleton schedule, and this way it is possible to specify that any service - including special or one time only services - be filled according to the rules for any of your services that appear in the Service Times pane in MSP.
To adjust how the auto-scheduler will fill a particular service:
- From an open schedule or skeleton, click on the date that the service occurs on.
- Select the service and click the "Edit Service..." button.
- In the Edit Service dialog, there is a section labeled, "Treat as:". Click on the drop-down menu and you can select which preference the auto-scheduler should be treating this schedule as. This way the program will fill in this service with volunteers who have the service listed as one of their preferences.
