Place a Hold on a Job
Place a hold to cancel the job for a specific date or date range without changing the underlying schedule — useful for holidays or one-off closures. You set a start date and a resume date; shifts in that window are skipped and unassigned, then resume automatically afterward. Each hold records the date(s), a reason, and who created it, and can be removed later.
Opening the job's Holds form
To open the Holds form:
On the Volunteers page, click the Jobs tab
then click the View button on the right-hand side of the job for which you want to view/edit settings.
Click the Holds tab.
Filling out the form
- Start date (required) — the first date the job is cancelled.
- Resume date (required) — the date the job runs again. This date is not held; shifts resume on it. Must be after the start date.
- Reason (optional) — a short note for why (e.g., "Volunteer vacation").
Click Add Hold to apply. Only the job's scheduled occurrences within the range are cancelled, and any volunteers already on those shifts are unassigned — you'll see a confirmation with how many shifts were cancelled.
Existing holds
Holds appear in a list below the form — one row per held date — showing Date, Reason, and Created By. Click Delete on a row to lift the hold for that date; the shift is re-created and schedule volunteers are re-matched.