A schedule is a list of route check points with times of their intended visit. One route can have unlimited number of schedules. Different schedules can be applied in odd and even days, at weekends and weekdays, in different months, etc.

To create a schedule for a route, press the Add schedule button  against this route and adjust required parameters.

General parameters

• Automatically create rounds for this schedule
  Rounds can be created automatically without any assistance of a dispatcher. When the time draws near the first point visit, the round is activated and the system starts to track it.  This option works only with Relative to day schedule type. Besides, one or more units should be selected on the Units tab of the same dialog.

• Expiration time (DD:HH:MM)
  This is time after which the round (if not finished) will be finished forcibly and obtain the Aborted status.

• Schedule name
  You can use automatically generated name for the schedule. It is composed of first point time and last point time or it can be Copy of … if the schedule is created using the copying method. However, you can give schedule any desired name if you put the checkbox before its name.

• Remove finished rounds from the timeline
  It is advisable to leave this option checked. Otherwise, finished rounds will remain on the timeline and soon will become too numerous and difficult to navigate through them.

Schedule type

• Relative to activation
  Scheduled time of point visit will refer to time from round beginning. Such schedule can be used at anytime.
• Relative to day
  Scheduled time of point visit will refer to time of day. Such schedule can be used in different days (once in a day).
• Absolute
  Scheduled time of point visit includes also a date. Such schedule can be used only once.

Check points order

This parameter is extremely important for route control.

• Strict
  All check points are supposed to be visited in the sequence order they are places in the route. No skipping is allowed. It means, while we are waiting for the arrival to the Point #3, any visits to other check points are ignored if they happen. The route is considered as finished when unit (after visiting all points) enters the last check point.

• Skipping possible
  Check points are supposed to be visited in the default order, however, it is possible that unit would visit not all of them. If after the visit to the Point #2 the unit gets to the Point #4, then the Point #3 is considered as skipped (even if visited later). The round is estimated as finished when a unit enters the last check point, and it does not matter how many of other points it has visited.

• Arbitrary
  Check points can be visited in any order but only when all of them are visited, the routes finishes.

Schedule grid

Here you see the list of all check points of a route and their visiting time. For visiting time you can indicate only arrival or both arrival and departure. Besides, you can set deviation time to give a unit some degree of freedom to visit the point (for example, +/- 5 minutes).

• Arrival time to a check point. Time format is hh:mm.
• Arrival variation (hh:mm) corresponds to a time interval on which an arrival time is allowed to vary. For example, deviation time is 5 minutes, arrival time is 16:30, then a unit has to come to a check point between 16:25 and 16:35.
• Departure time from a check point.
• Departure variation corresponds to a time interval on which a departure time is allowed to vary.

The same variation time of arrival/departure can be set for all check points simultaneously. To do so, indicate common variation time in the corresponding field and click Apply.

If a schedule contains an arrival time only, then a check point is considered to be visited upon arriving to it. If both arrival and departure time is indicated, then a check point becomes visited when both arrival and departure are detected.

Variation from arrival to the 1st check point is highly important, because a round is created (appears on the timeline) in advance. If the 1st check point arrival variation equals zero or has a small value, then it can be a situation when a visit is not detected. For example, a check point is visited before creation of a corresponding round. Therefore, it is recommended to set a larger arrival variation value for the 1st check point.

Time limitation

Time limitations can be applied to schedule to restrict its operation to certain time intervals, days of the week, days of the month or months. For example, you can select only event or odd days or only working hours of weekdays, etc. Note that this option does not work with Absolute schedule type.

Units

Choose unit(s) to be assigned to this schedule and thus create rounds. If rounds are created automatically, then units have to be indicated. If rounds are created manually, then a unit can be assigned upon a round creation. If several units are chosen, then the first that begins the round will be assigned to it. Required access right is Use unit in retranslators, jobs, and notifications.

Switch to the Units tab. Here you can see two lists. The units to be assigned are situated in the left one, the right one contains already chosen units. The left list contains not all the units available to you, but those situated in the monitoring panel work list. In case the work list is empty (when the dynamic work list is used or when units have been deleted from the work list manually), the units to which you possess enough rights will be displayed.

Round name

Here you can set name that will be applied to rounds created on the basis of this schedule do differentiate it from other rounds. Special tags can be used to form the name:

• %ROUTE% — route name;
• %SCHEDULE% — schedule name;
• %FIRSTPOINT% — first check point name;
• %LASTPOINT% — last check point name;
• %DATE% — date of round creation;
• %TIME% — time of round creation.

When you have configured the first schedule, others can be easily created by copying and shifting. Press the Copy schedule button against necessary schedule and alter some parameters. Enter shifting time (hh:mm) and press up or down icon (shift schedule upwards or backwards in time). Besides, you may want to change schedule name.