# Double Assignments - Block, Warn, Allow

When an employee is scheduled to work two different shifts at exactly the same time this is called a **Double Assignment**. Depending on how your business uses ShiftApp, having double assignments on the schedules might be okay, or it might be a problem.  
  
The _Workforce Settings_,

- <u>Resource Double Assignments</u>  
- <u>Client Double Assignments</u>  
- <u>Employee Double Assignments</u>  

control how ShiftApp allows and displays double assignments on the schedule.  
  
When these settings are set to **warn** then double assignments are shown on the schedule with a strike written through the assignee's name, like this.  
  
Hover the mouse pointer over the assignment to see a tool-tip with further information about the double-assignment.  


![double assignment warning](/pics/6xvix5kgwYMgAppAVH0Irg-double-assignment.png)

_a Double Assignment_

Potential double assignments are also highlighted on the _Assignment Menu._ The strike through name is displayed only as a visual warning to the schedule manager and ShiftApp will not stop you from making a double assignment when the _Workforce Setting_ is set to **warn**.



![shift clash warning](/pics/6Jia1o1auunrwUSoS02QQT-assignment-menu-warning.png)

Conflicting _Time Off_ on the schedule are also shown with a strikethrough. This is just a visual warning to the schedule manager.



![employee is double assigned](/pics/5AGt6aSCdDhXXrwAfFoR7k-double-assignment-with-holiday.png)

_Double Assignment with Time Off_

Please note that _double assignments_ will be fully counted twice in hourly totals shown on the ShiftApp website and in the ShiftApp reports.



When a _Workforce Setting_ for double assignments is set to **block** then it's not possible to create double assignments. For instance, where an employee is already assigned elsewhere, their name will not appear in the _Assignment Menu_.



When a Workforce setting for double assignments is set to **okay** then double assignments are allowed and there is no strike through highlighting.



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