Before you run a schedule you need to define the work week options as well as other schedule options.
To access the schedule options, click on the Options tab. The following window will appear:
The options entered are the defaults to use for each schedule run. When you perform a schedule run, you can change many of the default options for that one particular schedule run.
Options that cannot be changed on the Schedule Run tab are:
1.Print on work profile not found.
2.Auto build capacity tables for third party.
3.Load Frozen Ops before started/locked ops.
4.How material constraints are applied.
5.What action to take if a security certificate match cannot be found.
The options are as follows:
Start of Year Date Options
1.The Manufacturing week 1 date is the beginning of the manufacturing calendar. You can either enter a date for the Manufacturing week 1 date, or you can choose to use the ISO-8601 work week (the first week of the year is the week that contains that year's first Thursday, that is a 4-day week) by selecting the User ISO-8601 week 1 checkbox. The Options also display the current work week and the current resource work week based on the Manufacturing week 1 date. (See also Current Resource Work Week and Variable Work Week)
Schedule Run Options
1.Schedule by Critical Ratio
2.Retain Schedule Board Operation Order
3.Or command time fence in days
4.Load started operations first
5.Alternate route time fence in days
6.Do not load started before Release Date
10.Print backward loading will not fit message
11.Minimum operation runtime in hours
12.Print work profile not found message
14.Trace schedule jobs in report
16.Reschedule late planned day jobs
19.Freeze schedule suppress warnings
20.Freeze schedule from last schedule start date x days
21.Limit error count (0 for no limit)
22.Load frozen ops before started/locked ops
23.Abort if error count > limit error count
Try Profile Options
1.The default for Profile for late jobs if priority <= if a Try Profile Schedule is selected
Apply Material Constraints Options
1.To Apply Material Constraints, please see Scheduling Material Constraints
Apply Security Certificate options
1.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.
Schedule options notes The notes fields can be used to keep information on the options for your own uses. Notes do not have any effect on a schedule run.
Click Save to save the options. Click Cancel to ignore the entered options.