To access the schedule options, click on the Options tab.  The following screen will appear:

The options entered are the defaults to use for each schedule run.  When you perform a schedule run, you can change these default options for that one particular run.  the options are as follows:

 

1. Schedule by Critical Ratio
2. Or command time fence in days
3. Alternate route time fence in days
4. Pool time fence in days
5. Schedule horizon in days
6. Minimum operation runtime in hours
7. Schedule Pending Jobs
8. Append to Schedule Run Report will append the new schedule run information to the existing schedule run report file.  The schedule run report file is a text file whose name is "Schedule_DatabaseName.TXT where DatabaseName is the name of the database.  The schedule run report is written to the Export folder.  Note that if you are appending to the schedule run report the file size will continue to grow until you either delete it or uncheck this option enabling the next schedule run to replace the file.
9. Retain Schedule Board Operation Order
10. Load started operations first
11. Print late jobs message
12. Print backward loading will not fit message
13. Print work profile not found message
14. Trace schedule jobs in report
15. Reschedule late planned day jobs
16. Auto build capacity tables
17. Freeze Schedule  Select this option if you want to freeze operations from the last schedule run.  This option can also be changed for each schedule run on the Schedule Run tab.
18. Freeze schedule from last schedule start date x days  Enter the number of days out from the last schedule run that you want to freeze operations.  This option can also be changed for each schedule run on the Schedule Run tab.
19. Freeze schedule suppress warnings If this option is selected, warning messages informing you that one or more frozen operations could not be scheduled on their previous start date or start shift will not be written to the status report.  If unchecked, warning messages will appear.  This option can also be changed for each schedule run on the Schedule Run tab.
20. Load frozen ops before started/locked ops  If selected, frozen operations will be loaded before started and manually locked operations.  If unchecked, frozen operations are loaded after started/locked operations.  (See Freeze Schedule for more information on tis option.)
21. The default for Profile for late jobs if priority <= if a Try Profile Schedule is selected
22. First Try Profile
23. Second Try Profile
24. To Apply Material Constraints, please see Scheduling Material Constraints 
25. Apply Security Certificates will tell the scheduler to schedule operations requiring security certificates with approved resources.  There are two options when applying security certificates to a schedule run and these are:
1. If no matching Security Certificate, print error and do not schedule operation  This selection will NOT schedule an operation if a resource with a security certificate cannot be found.
2. If no matching Security Certificate, print warning and schedule operation  This selection will still schedule an operation even if a resource with a security certificate cannot be found.
26. Schedule options notes  The notes fields can be used to keep information on the options for your own uses.  Notes do not have any affect on a schedule run. 

Click Save to save the options.  Click Cancel to ignore the entered options.