One of the many features of Eclipse-fm® that many people don’t realise can assist them is the No Scheduled Work Dates option. This is a feature of Eclipse-fm® that those that have come from the legacy WIMS system will recognise as low weeks.
What is this option?
In the legacy product, low weeks allowed you to indicate in the system four working weeks that you do not want the system to produce any dockets for which would allow you to catch up with the current workload. As the legacy system worked in units of weeks, this would exclude just that, a week at a time. In Eclipse-fm®, as we have done away with the old way of working, you can now fine tune your scheduled workload down to a single unit of time being a day. This allows you to identify single days as days where you do not want any work to be planned for - No Scheduled Work Dates.
Below is an example of this standard feature in Eclipse-fm®.
You will see that we have populated the list with some typical dates for the current and next year.
How does it work?
When you produce your scheduled tasks for the coming weeks, the system will look at these dates to identify if the date that the work would be planned for falls on one of these dates. If it does then the planned date will be changed, for this instance only, to the next available work date.
The system does this by using the two flags in the Task Management Configuration and the No scheduled work dates. Take the example that we have set the system to exclude bank holidays and weekends; we have also told the system that we want a no scheduled work date of Easter Monday (13/04/2009). When the system locates a scheduled task that is due on that date, the instance that is produced will be generated for the Tuesday (14/04/2009).
Further information on this subject is available in the online help for Eclipse-fm® by pressing the F1 key within the application.
