Assignment Schedule Fields

Here is a description of the fields and buttons on the Edit Assignment Schedule page.

Schedule

The sections that follow describe the fields that show the current schedule.

Information Fields

The information fields show the current schedule.

Key: * – Mandatory; R – Read-only

Field     Description
Assignment Name   R Name of the assignment to which the schedule relates.
Start/End Date *   Start and end date of the schedule.
Planned Hours   R Number of hours originally planned for the assignment. This field exists on projects, assignments and milestones and is for simple planning purposes. You can set Salesforce field-level security on this field. When you create an assignment from a resource request, the requested hours data on the Resource Request is copied to the Planned Hours field on the Assignment. When you create a project from a template, the Planned Hours data is copied.
Future Scheduled Hours   R The Number of hours scheduled for this and subsequent weeks to the end of the schedule.
Pattern *   The number of hours the resource should spend on the assignment each day.
Schedule   R Schedule ID of the schedule to which the assignment relates. You can click the link to view the Schedule page.
Actual Timecard Hours   R The number of hours booked to the assignment on timecards.
Scheduled Hours   R The total number of hours scheduled for the assignment.

Schedule Exceptions Fields

The schedule exceptions fields show exceptions to the schedule pattern that have been added to the schedule. Click to view the schedule exceptions.

Key: R – Read-only

Field   Description
Name R ID of the schedule exception. You can click the link to view the Schedule Exception Detail.
Del R Deletes the schedule exception.
Start/End Date R The start and end date for the schedule exception.
Default Exception Hours Per Day R Default number of hours to populate the day fields with when you do not enter a specific value for an individual day.
Day fields R The hours on each day that the schedule is changed to when the exception is applied to the schedule pattern.

Schedule Exceptions Buttons

The Delete All Exceptions button deletes all the schedule exceptions.

Caution
When you make a change in the Schedule Exceptions section, there is no option to preview your changes before saving them.

Schedule Fields

The Schedule section shows hours for each day in the schedule after schedule exceptions have been taken into account.

Reschedule

This section describes the fields that allow you to change all or part of a schedule. When you reschedule, one or more schedule exceptions is created from the you specify to the end of the schedule.

Field   Description
From Date   The date from which to change the schedule.
Schedule Strategy   The scheduling strategy to change the schedule to. You can choose from several options:
  • Calculate End Date, Level Schedule: Calculates the end date taking into account holidays and other assignments that the resource has.
  • Calculate End Date, Ignore Availablity: Calculates the End Date ignoring assignments that the resource has.
  • Adjust Hours Per Day: Calculates the hours per day based on the project end date and the Scheduled Hours. The Scheduled Hours are distributed evenly between the start and end dates.
Number of Hours   The number of hours to adjust the schedule to. When you save the changes, the Future Scheduled Hours and Total Scheduled Hours fields are updated.
Caution
When you reschedule, all schedule exceptions on or after the From Date are deleted .

Insert Schedule Exception

This section describes the fields that allow you to insert exceptions into the standard schedule and set start and end dates for the exceptions.

Key: * – Mandatory

Field   Description
Start/End Date * The start and end dates for the schedule exception.
Move End Date   Indicates whether the parent schedule's end date is moved to the End Date of the new exception. If this would result in a reduction of the scheduled hours, the schedule End Date is adjusted to keep the scheduled hours constant.
Auto Adjust Overlapping Exceptions   Indicates whether overlapping exceptions are to be automatically removed or truncated.
Pattern Day Fields * The hours on each day that the schedule is changed to when the exception is applied to the schedule pattern.

Buttons

A Schedule Update section, which allows you to change schedule parameters.

Button Description
Update Displays the proposed changes so you can review them before saving.
Save Saves the changes, updates the schedule and the schedule exceptions.

Related Information

Assignments and Schedules

About Scheduling Strategies

Related Tasks

Editing Schedules

Selecting a Custom Scheduling Strategy

Assigning Resources Directly by Name

Assigning Multiple Resources to Projects

Assigning Multiple Projects to Resources

Closing Assignments

Self-Assignment

Viewing, Adding and Editing Daily Notes

© Copyright 2009-2012 FinancialForce.com, inc. All rights reserved.
Various trademarks held by their respective owners.