Autorota is designed to automate the rotation of staff schedules. Using a variety of user-specified "rules," staff members can be allocated a variety of shifts, roles, and working hours. Autorota can be configured to rotate shifts evenly between a number of staff members or to force a particular repeating schedule pattern to happen over several weeks. It includes a year planner, providing a year-at-a-time view of days such as vacations, training, and so on.