Controls and symbols

Controls

• You have a pair of buttons that you can use to undo / redo you actions. They are located under the Understand/Schedule menu item.

• Modals (dialogs) have an OK button to save your changes and a Cancel button to leave without saving. In the latter case you will be prompted for a confirmation.

• Most settings tables have a series of buttons in the top right corner that (going from left to right) allow you to clear all filters, delete the items that you selected by ticking the corresponding checkbox, add a new item (row), and copy the item selected.

• Data management modals have a slightly different set of buttons as shown below. The first one clears all filters, the second one is designed to export the whole table or the selected rows to Excel, and the last one is the column chooser that allows you to drag-and-drop further fields to the table, or to remove fields in the same way.

• Schedule makes extensive use of tooltips that display a lot of useful information when you hover over jobs (production orders) or tasks (operations). Below you can first see a tooltip over a job, then one on a task.

• Right-click menus facilitate your work throughout Schedule. Below you can first see the right-click menu displayed on a job (production order), then the one shown on a task (operation).

Symbols

You may see some recurring symbols used in your Gantt chart. Find the legend to them below.

- The baseline for the given job is not set.

- Not all the tasks of the job have been scheduled due to the planning horizon

- Time constraint [Normally, a task’s earliest start date is the release date of the job that it belongs to. However, you can declare a different earliest possible start date for a task manually, by horizontal drag-and-drop or in the task’s modal. This is called a time constraint.]

- Resource constraint [Assign a resource mandatorily to a task (operation) either in the task’s modal or by vertical drag-and-drop. In the plan it is indicated by a symbol over the start of the task.]

- Task constraint [To mandatorily assign a resource used in a preceding operation to another operation by adding the preceding operation’s (task’s) name to the Task constraint column of the second operation. The task constraint is applied to the corresponding resource group.]