# Duplicate the previous week

> Reproduce all the shifts of an already-planned week in one click to avoid recreating everything by hand.

Source: https://help.shyfter.com/en/schedules/duplicate-the-previous-week  
Category: Schedules  
Updated: 2026-06-30

When your team's schedule repeats from one week to the next with few changes, duplicating the previous week saves you a considerable amount of time. In one click, all the shifts are reproduced on the target week. All that is left is to adjust the exceptions.

## How to duplicate a week

Go to **Schedules → Schedule management**.

Navigate to the **target week**, that is the week you want to fill in (not the one you want to copy).

Click the **More** button at the top right of the schedule, then select **Duplicate the previous week**.

Shyfter reproduces all the shifts of the previous week on the displayed week, keeping the same employees, sections, hours and information.

## What is copied, what is not

The duplication carries over the shifts with their information: start and end times, associated sections and skills, breaks, tasks and shift comments.

Absences, unavailabilities and information specific to the source week (approved leave, and so on) are not copied.

## After duplicating

The duplicated shifts appear as dotted lines (unpublished). Take the opportunity to adjust whatever needs adjusting before publishing the whole set.

> You do not have to duplicate from the immediately preceding week. You can navigate to any future week and duplicate from the week just before it. The logic is always: "copy week N-1 onto the displayed week N".

## Duplicate from a week template

If your schedule changes often from week to week but follows recurring patterns, consider **week templates**. You create a template once, then import it onto any week. This is more flexible than simply duplicating the previous week.