Retrying a failed roster with relaxed constraints

When roster generation fails, loosen a couple of the most common blockers and add doctors from the roster’s own page, then regenerate without starting over.

When a roster shows a Failed status, you don’t need to reopen the wizard and rebuild it. The failed roster’s own page offers a faster path: relax the constraints most likely to be the problem, optionally add doctors, and regenerate in place.

This works from any Failed roster page — it isn’t specific to Auto Duty. For Auto Duty cycles, the same idea appears as Retry Generation on a failed planning cycle.

Open the retry panel

On a Failed roster, you’ll see a Retry with relaxed constraints panel: some staffing constraints may be too restrictive to generate a roster. From here you can either:

• Select Retry generation to open the relaxed-constraints modal (below), or
• Select Create new plan to abandon this roster and start fresh in the wizard instead.

Adjust and retry

The Retry with relaxed constraints modal lets you adjust a few constraints to give the scheduler more flexibility — your existing roster inputs stay unchanged unless you update them here.

1. Raise max consecutive working days (optional)

   The field starts one day above the roster’s original setting. A +N badge shows how much more room you’re giving the engine versus the original roster.

2. Lower min rest days per week (optional)

   Starts at the roster’s original value — reduce it if that’s the likely blocker.

3. Add doctors (optional)

   Expand Doctors in this roster to see everyone currently included, or select Add doctors to bring in more without leaving the modal.

4. Retry

   Select Retry roster creation. The roster regenerates against the same period with your adjusted inputs.

Start small. A one-day increase to max consecutive work days is often enough to clear a near-miss — you can always retry again with a larger adjustment if it still fails.

What happens next

The roster moves back into Creating while the engine re-solves, then lands on Draft (ready to review and publish) or Failed again if the same or a different constraint still can’t be satisfied. See Roster constraints for the full list of hard and soft rules the engine applies.

Next steps

Understand the rules

See every rule the engine respects, and what “hard” versus “soft” means.

Roster and shift statuses

Reference for every status you’ll see on a roster.