Job Assignments: Confirm & Deny

When you put an employee on a job, Airstudio can tell them and ask for an answer. Their reply flows back to the schedule so you know before picture day who is actually coming.

The flow

A scheduler assigns the employee to a job shift, with a role, start and end times, and optionally equipment. Ticking Send Assignment Notification sends the Employee Job Assignment email, text, or push.
The message carries Confirm and Deny links. The employee taps one; no login is needed. They can also confirm or deny from the Schedule tab of their Profile or from the job in the mobile app.
The assignment's status changes from Pending to Confirmed or Denied. Schedulers see the status on the job and on the Schedule, and receive the Employee Job Assignment Status notification if it is enabled. A denial also sends Employee Assignment Denied.
A denied shift stays on the job, marked Denied, until a scheduler reassigns it.

A scheduler can also confirm assignments on an employee's behalf, singly or in bulk from the job.

Allowing or blocking denials

Allow Staff to Deny Jobs in Settings › Studio Info controls whether the Deny option appears. With it off, employees see Confirm only, and a Deny link from an older message is refused with a message that denying is disabled for the studio.

Related notifications

Notification	Goes to	When
Employee Job Assignment	The employee	Assigned, with the notification ticked
Employee Job Assignment Status	Schedulers you choose	The employee confirms or denies
Employee Assignment Denied	Schedulers you choose	The employee denies
Employee Job Unassignment	The employee	Removed from the job, or the job is cancelled
Employee Job Reminder	Assigned employees	On the schedule you set, by default three weeks ahead
Employee Job Completed	Assigned employees	The job is marked complete
Employee Schedule	Selected employees	Sent by hand from Schedule › Actions, each employee receiving their own job list

All of these are edited under Settings › Notifications, where you can change wording, channel, and timing, and switch each off per channel.

Tips

Include the job address, the employee's start time, and the equipment pickup area in the assignment template so the message doubles as the call sheet.
Use the Schedule's assignment status filter the week before a job to chase anyone still Pending and replace anyone Denied while there is still time.
Distance to the job is shown next to each employee's name when you assign, provided the employee has an address and the job has a location.