Dispatching View
The Dispatching View lets you browse the operations planned on each resource in a table. Operations are listed from the earliest start time onward, so it works as a work instruction sheet (dispatching list) for each machine or worker.
Difference from Asprova's Dispatching View
My Schedule's Dispatching View is not a reproduction of Asprova's Dispatching View. The two look similar, but a row does not mean the same thing in each.
In Asprova's Dispatching View, each row is a use instruction. In My Schedule's Dispatching View, each row stands for an operation: results can only be entered against an operation, so what a Start or End press — or the result editing dialog — writes to is the operation, not the use instruction. This is by design.
By default, the Dispatching View style's use-instruction filter expression leaves only the production task's use instruction. That gives exactly one use instruction per operation, so the two coincide and every row can take its own result.
Keep the use-instruction filter expression so that one operation produces exactly one row. Listing several use instructions of the same operation is strongly discouraged: this configuration is not tested, so problems beyond the one described below should be expected.
If you relax that filter so several use instructions of the same operation are listed, those rows share one operation, and therefore one result. Entering a result on any one of them applies it to all of them, and there is no way to record a separate result per use instruction.
How to use
Selecting a resource and moving between resources
The Dispatching View shows operations one resource at a time. The first time you open it, you choose the resource to display in the resource selection dialog. On later visits, it automatically returns to the resource you used last. From any resource's page, you can reopen the resource selection dialog by clicking the resource name shown in the toolbar.
When a resource belongs to a resource group, you can move between the resources in that group using the buttons shown on the left and right edges of the Dispatching View.
When a resource belongs to more than one resource group, a resource group select box appears in the toolbar, and you choose there which group the left and right buttons move within. Until you choose one, the group with the fewest members is used.
Entering results
If the result-entry buttons are unavailable, check the following:
- Whether you are using a "Viewer plan" project — result entry is not available on the Viewer plan.
- Whether your permission is "Read only" — with "Read only" permission you can only view operations.
- For the Edit result button only: whether a project administrator has turned Edit result on for the Dispatching View.
Each displayed operation has Start and End buttons. Pressing Start records the operation's result start time; pressing End records its result end time.
To change an entered result time, or to enter properties such as the result quantity, use the result editing dialog. It is opened from the Edit result button in the rightmost column of the table.
That column is shown only when a project administrator has turned Edit result on for the Dispatching View. The setting is under Project Admin Settings, in the hamburger menu (☰) of the toolbar; only project administrators can change it, and it applies to every user on the project.
Display settings
You change the Dispatching View's display settings from the toolbar. These settings are saved per user in the browser.
Style
When multiple styles have been uploaded from Asprova, you can switch the displayed style here.
Showing completed operations
Controls whether completed operations stay visible. When OFF, completed operations are automatically hidden from the Dispatching View; when ON, they remain displayed. The default is OFF.
Date mode
Groups the operations planned on a resource by date. The default is OFF. Dates are separated at the project's day demarcation time, not at midnight.
Number of items shown
Sets how many operations are shown per page. Effective only when Date mode is OFF.
Customizing the style (settings in Asprova)
By configuring the Dispatching View style in the source Asprova, you can customize how the Dispatching View is displayed in My Schedule. Note that all styles are evaluated at upload time.
If you change the displayed column settings of a style, you must overwrite the style before uploading; otherwise the style will not be reflected on My Schedule.
Valid settings:
- Displayed columns: determine the columns of the table, and the order they appear in. The column header is the property's alias, or its display string when no alias is set.
- Resource filter expression: determines which resources are uploaded. Resources are collected across every uploaded style, so switching the style in My Schedule does not change which resources you can select.
- Use-instruction filter expression: determines which operations are listed for a resource. Keep it so that one operation produces exactly one row — see Difference from Asprova's Dispatching View.
- Display start time expression / Display end time expression: determine the period of the operations listed. This applies in addition to the display period set in the My Schedule integration settings.
The style's sort method is not reflected. Operations are always listed from the earliest start time onward.
Even when the style does not include them, the reported start time and reported end time columns are added automatically, so that results can always be entered. When the style also shows the planned start and end times, the planned time and the reported time are drawn together in a single column.