About the Planner Tab

The Planner tab provides added functionality to better accommodate certain flowed scenarios.

Terms and Definitions

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Load Shift	Defines how labor is allocated during a shift. This selection applies to work requirements that exceed the Maximum Shift specifications you make and denotes where any extra shifts are scheduled. Beginning. Denotes that most of the work is performed at the beginning of the shift. End. Denotes that most of the work is performed at the end of the shift. Middle. Denotes that most of the work is performed in the middle of the shift. Varying. Denotes that the work varies throughout the shift.
Min. Shift	Denotes the minimum number of hours an employee can be scheduled per shift. State laws, union contracts or property policy will provide this information. If a department manager edits the weekly schedule and schedules an employee for less than a minimum shift, this violation will be listed in the Hours Variance Analysis. This field overrides any other values that you entered when configuring property, division or department.
Max. Shift	Denotes the maximum number of hours an employee can be scheduled per shift. State laws, union contracts or property policy will provide this information. If a department manager edits the weekly schedule and schedules an employee for more than a maximum shift, this violation will be listed in the Hours Variance Analysis. This field overrides any other values that you entered when configuring property, division or department.
Rounding Threshold Below One	Denotes how much work is needed in a shift, for shift lengths to be rounded up to add one person when the projected work is < 1.0. For example, if the projected amount of work at 8:00 is 0.12 and the threshold value is 0.2, no one would be scheduled for the 8:00 shift. The default value for this is 0.0, which means that no matter how small an amount of work there is in a given period, you will always get one person to cover the work.
Rounding Threshold Above One	Denotes how much projected work is needed in a shift for shift lengths to be rounded up to add one person, when the projected work is > 1.0. For example, if the projected amount of work at 8:00 is 1.39 and the threshold value is 0.4, one person would be scheduled for the 8:00 shift. The default value for this is "0.2".
Limit Shift to Max Shift for non-Flowed Work	This only has an impact for Non-Flowed work for jobs where Load Shift = End. There is a piece of code in the system that causes the shifts defined for the job to be truncated to the max shift length, which causes the "End" work to be placed in the wrong position. This flag simply disables the truncation of the shift length to the max shift length.
Generate Long Shifts	This flag is designed to "skip over gaps" in the work distribution. It mostly applies to flowed jobs. A gap means a "0" in the array.