Buttons below the Planning Board
"Presettings" button
You invoke the "Presettings" dialog with this button (see Presettings).
The status of all scheduled operations is refreshed in the planning board when you use this button.
"Digital Presses Lock/enable" button (6)
Prerequisite: You can use this button only if the planning board is enabled in general with the "Lock/enable" button (see "Refresh" button).
If there are plannable digital presses in the system environment, you can use this button to lock or enable these presses for scheduling. This lets you lock digital presses while all other machines are enabled.
Display of "Transfer status: Number of loaded jobs / Total number of jobs"
The number of jobs that can be seen in the planning board displays in the left part of this box while the right part displays the total number of scheduled jobs. Jobs where more than 28 days have passed since their completion date no longer display in the planning board. The number of such jobs displays on the right.
Two colors are used in this display:
•red: Jobs are rescheduled but scheduling was not yet enabled.
•green: Scheduling is completed and was enabled.
Click this button to toggle the scheduling mode of the Scheduler on or off. This button works like a toggle. In other words, each time you use it, it switches from "locked" to "enabled" and vice versa. The button itself does not change after it is toggled. A green (or red) vertical bar to the left of the button indicates the current state to you.
•With bar:
The Scheduler is locked. This means that it is locked for scheduling. You can configure certain setups in this state. For example, you can use the "Presettings" button.
If another user has "locked" the planning board, this is indicated by a red bar with the name of the logged in user.
•Without bar:
The Scheduler is enabled for scheduling. You cannot define settings that influence how the Scheduler works.
Click this button to discard all scheduling steps made since you last clicked "Activate".
Use this button to activate all scheduling steps you made. This means that the scheduling data will be sent to the Prinect Manager. After you click "Activate", you can no longer undo any scheduling steps.
Operation overlaps may occur if scheduled operations take longer than estimated (calculated) or if operators on the machine bring forward jobs. This means that the "schedule bars" of two scheduled operations overlap on a machine.
Such overlaps are resolved when you click the "Clean up Scheduler" button (see also Overlapping operations).
"Undo last scheduling step" button
Click this button to discard the last scheduling step you made.
"Show schedulers in separate window" button (4)
The ideal work environment for the production planner comprises two monitors. When you click the "Show schedulers in separate window" button (4) at the bottom right in the Gantt chart, workspaces 1 and 2 display jointly in one window and workspace 3 in a separate window (if necessary, on a different monitor). This lets you, for example, view the planning board (workspaces 1 and 2) on a large-format monitor.