Type of Work defines a typical work week used by Resource Profiles.  When you create a new dataset one type of work, called Regular Work, is automatically setup for you.  Before you set up resources you need to determine the type of work profiles you will use. Type of work profiles can also be used to quickly generate overtime schedules and perform “what if” scenarios during a schedule run.

Before a resource profile can use a type of work, the type of work must be defined.  Once a type of work has been defined and is used by DMS, it cannot be deleted unless resource profiles using the type of work are assigned to another type of work.  Instead of deleting a type of work you can make it unavailable for use by unselecting the Available check box.

The Type of Work enables you to define the standard number of shifts per day for each variable work week (up to 4 weeks).  Note that the number of work weeks is defined by Tables | Resource Options & User Fields. 

To access type of work, select Tables | Type of Work.  The following window will appear listing the current type of work profiles:

Valid commands are:

1. New To add a new type of work, select File | New or click on the new icon .
2. Edit To edit an existing type of work, highlight the type of work in the grid and select File | Edit or click on the edit icon .
3. Delete  To delete an existing type of work, highlight the type of work in the grid and select File | Delete or click on the delete icon .  DMS will confirm the delete.  Click OK to delete the type of work, or click Cancel to cancel the delete.

If New was selected, the following window appears.  Enter the type of work, select the working shifts and select the days of the week that will be work days.   Click the Save & New button to save the entry and keep this screen open to add another new type of work, or click Save & Exit to save the type of work.  Click Cancel & Exit to ignore the entry and exit the screen:

To add or edit a Type of Work:

1. Type of Work Enter the type of work name.
2. Available Click the Available check box.
3. Select the week number you want to define.  Depending on the resource variable week options set in Resource Options & User Fields, from 1 to 4 work weeks can be defined.
4. Week Available Click on the Week Available check box.
5. To set all the grid cells to 0, click the Zero Grid button.  To populate shift 1 Monday to Friday with 1 shift per day, click the Grid Defaults button.
6. Enter 1 for the number of shifts for each shift and operation on the working days.
7. Click Save to save the week settings.  Click Cancel to cancel the changes.
8. Repeat steps 3 to 7 for each week you want to define.

If Edit was selected, the following window appears with the selected type of work displayed.  You can enter the changes and/or  change the "Available" setting.  Click the Save & Exit to save the type of work changes.  Click Cancel & Exit to ignore the entry and exit the screen:

Regular Work

The Regular Work type of work profile is automatically created when a new dataset is created.  Regular Work cannot be deleted and cannot be made unavailable in order to always be available within DMS for Resource Profiles to use.  You can, however, change the Regular Work name to whatever name you wish to use (i.e. "5 x 1" for days days a week 1 shift, or "Standard Week", etc.).  You can also change the default shift and days of the week settings to whatever is required for your scheduling purposes.