ADDING AND MODIFYING GROUPS OF WORKERS
The term Group of employees can be used to define names of many employees who do the same or similar tasks like e.g. Nurses
In order to split shifts and holiday, at first you must add group of employees and then employees (who will have shitfs and holiday assigned) who were members of previously added group of employees.
You can add a group, where employees will be added later, by click Add group 
button on the toolbar or by menu: Group > Add. In this window, on the Data tab you have to specify the name of a group. It is optional and can be later modified (e.g. "Nurses", when the schedule is set for nurses).
- amount of shifts,
- start time of shift,
- duration of shift,
- symbol of shift (it can be used in templates),
- color (it can be used in the main window of the Work Scheduler Pro in the Calendar section),
- name of shift,
- optimal and recommended amount of employees (staff) on a shift during weekday or holiday (which is used during automatic assignment of shifts).
Pressing the button 
causes automatically calculate start time of the following shifts, based on start time and duration of previuos shift.
The Normative tab contains options which have an impact on calculation of the monthly standard work time. Data from this bookmark is saved for each month independently. You can specify there:
- custom monthly standard work time, after selecting an option Own normative (if you do not select this option, the automatically calculated monthly standard work time is displayed).
- Duration of shift "8",
Warning: based on this duration, the monthly standard work time is calculated as a multiplication duration of shift "8" and the amount of working days in the selected month. - the way of considering Saturdays: as a holiday or as a weekday
- decreasing monthly standard work time (or not) when the holiday take place on Saturday
- the way of counting night shifts which take place on holidays
- screening the calendar without holidays
Pressing the button Save value as default accepts the current settings as default on the Normative tab for months in which they have not been determined yet.
After selecting an option Reset default settings (on Automat tab) you can get the most optimal composition of automatically split of shifts (according to the scheme specified in the window of Edit data of employee). To reset settings before every automatically split of shifts, yoou have to mark an option Always reset before automat start. The program can split shifts according to two algorithms. It should be certify experimentally, which one is more appropriate for the group. On the Automat tab the user can also decide if the overtime should be split by checking an option Distribute normative's residues.
To change data of group of employees click Modify data of the group button 
or by menu: Group > Edit.
To delete a group of employees, click Delete group button 
or by menu: Group > Delete. Then the group is removed with employees who are assigned to it. This removal irreversible.