Schedule Planning
Manage space assignments to help employees head back to the office.
Schedule Planning overview
Schedule Planning provides a streamlined experience for project managers to assign and manage employee assignments based on project time frames.
As a project manager, you can do the following:
- View a list of employees assigned to your project
- View a list of spaces allocated for your project
- Create a schedule plan for a specific period to map spaces to the employees
- Execute a schedule plan to assign spaces to the Workplace Profile of the users
Accessing Schedule Planning
You must install the following plugins to use the Schedule Planner module:
- Workplace Central
- Workplace Space Management
You can install the plugins from the ServiceNow Store. You can also visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information of all the released apps, see the ServiceNow Store release notes.
Important: You must set a value for the sn_wsd_core.ALLOCATION_TYPE property to enable schedule planning.
To access the Schedule Planner, navigate to All > Workplace Central, then select the Schedule Planner module in the workspace.
[Omitted image "schedule-plan-dashboard.png"] Alt text: Schedule Planner dashboard with information about schedule plans, departments, users, and allocations.
As a project owner, you can view the created schedule plans, projects assigned to you, and the spaces and users assigned to the projects. You can create a schedule plan or edit existing schedule plans. For more information, see Working with Schedule Planning.
Note: A project owner can create schedule plans for the projects that are assigned to them. Projects can be assigned to a user from the following fields:
- Primary contact field of the department
- Manager field of the cost center
- Managed by group or Managed by field of the workplace entity
Only one of the fields is considered for the project list based on the sn_wsd_core.ALLOCATION_TYPE property.
Schedule Plan states
A schedule plan can be in one of the following states:
- Draft: Project owner has created a new schedule plan but has not filled the details or started the workplace assignments.
- In Progress: Project owner has filled the schedule plan details and the workplace locations are being assigned to the users.
- Published: Schedule plan is created and the workplace locations are assigned to all the users.
- Complete: Schedule plan has reached the specified end date and the workplace location assignments are made inactive.
- Cancelled: Project owner has cancelled the schedule plan and the workplace location assignments are made inactive.
Note: The Complete the lapsed schedule plan job runs every day to check which schedule plans have reached the end date and move them to the Complete state.
Parent Topic:Exploring Workplace Space Management
Parent Topic:Explore Workplace Central
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--- title: Schedule Planning description: Manage space assignments to help employees head back to the office. locale: en-US canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/workplace-space-management/schedule-planning.html release: australia product: Workplace Space Management classification: workplace-space-management topic_type: concept last_updated: "2026-09-10" reading_time_minutes: 4 breadcrumb: [Explore, Workplace Space Management, Workplace Service Delivery, Employee Service Management] --- # Schedule Planning Manage space assignments to help employees head back to the office. ## Schedule Planning overview Schedule Planning provides a streamlined experience for project managers to assign and manage employee assignments based on project time frames. As a project manager, you can do the following: - View a list of employees assigned to your project - View a list of spaces allocated for your project - Create a schedule plan for a specific period to map spaces to the employees - Execute a schedule plan to assign spaces to the Workplace Profile of the users ## Accessing Schedule Planning You must install the following plugins to use the Schedule Planner module: - Workplace Central - Workplace Space Management You can install the plugins from the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home). You can also visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information of all the released apps, see the [ServiceNow Store release notes](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/store-release-notes/sn-store-release-notes.html). **Important:** You must set a value for the **sn\_wsd\_core.ALLOCATION\_TYPE** property to enable schedule planning. To access the Schedule Planner, navigate to **All** > **Workplace Central**, then select the **Schedule Planner** module in the workspace. \[Omitted image "schedule-plan-dashboard.png"\] Alt text: Schedule Planner dashboard with information about schedule plans, departments, users, and allocations. As a project owner, you can view the created schedule plans, projects assigned to you, and the spaces and users assigned to the projects. You can create a schedule plan or edit existing schedule plans. For more information, see [Working with Schedule Planning](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/workplace-central/working-with-schedule-planning.md). **Note:** A project owner can create schedule plans for the projects that are assigned to them. Projects can be assigned to a user from the following fields: - **Primary contact** field of the department - **Manager** field of the cost center - **Managed by group** or **Managed by** field of the workplace entity Only one of the fields is considered for the project list based on the **sn\_wsd\_core.ALLOCATION\_TYPE** property. ## Schedule Plan states A schedule plan can be in one of the following states: - Draft: Project owner has created a new schedule plan but has not filled the details or started the workplace assignments. - In Progress: Project owner has filled the schedule plan details and the workplace locations are being assigned to the users. - Published: Schedule plan is created and the workplace locations are assigned to all the users. - Complete: Schedule plan has reached the specified end date and the workplace location assignments are made inactive. - Cancelled: Project owner has cancelled the schedule plan and the workplace location assignments are made inactive. **Note:** The **Complete the lapsed schedule plan** job runs every day to check which schedule plans have reached the end date and move them to the **Complete** state. **Parent Topic:**[Exploring Workplace Space Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/workplace-space-management/explore_wsm.md) **Parent Topic:**[Explore Workplace Central](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/workplace-central/workplace-central.md) **Related topics** []() [Space Optimization]() [Scenario Planning]() [Lists module]() [Workplace Analytics]() [Space Planning]() [Space assistance]() [Event Planner]() [Move Management]() [Case management]() [Kiosk Indoor Mapping]()
| title | Schedule Planning |
| description | Manage space assignments to help employees head back to the office. |
| locale | en-US |
| canonical_url | https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/workplace-space-management/schedule-planning.html |
| release | australia |
| product | Workplace Space Management |
| classification | workplace-space-management |
| topic_type | concept |
| last_updated | 2026-09-10 |
| reading_time_minutes | 4 |
| breadcrumb | ExploreWorkplace Space ManagementWorkplace Service DeliveryEmployee Service Management |