The section of the General Settings refers to the Automatic assignment distribution and the slot planning.

Distance and driving times

The calculation of the distances and the travel times is done via the air lines. The setting "Correction to linear distance (in %) "sets the markup in percent, which is added to the air line distance. The default value is 20%.

Example: If the destination is 100 kilometers away and the correction is 20%, then a distance of 120 kilometers is used to calculate the travel time.

Average speed (km/h): You can set the default average speed in km/h that will be used in the travel time calculation. The default value is 50 km/h.

Example: If the distance is 120 kilometers and the average speed is 50 km/h, the travel time is 2 hours and 24 minutes.

Exact routing limit (km): Specify the distance up to which a route is calculated with the help of LocationIQ.
Route precalculation active: When activated, the routes from all resources to assignments in the worklist are calculated. If a resource already has an assignment, the route from the assignment location to the assignment in the worklist is calculated.
Interval in minutes: Specify how often the routes should be precalculated. Route precalculation must be active for this.
Batch size (elements to calculate): Specifies how many routes should actually be calculated by LocationIQ. If, for example, nothing changes on a route, it will not be recalculated by LocationIQ.
Start offset (days before today): Control the start of the precalculation in days before today.
End offset (days after today): Set the end of the precalculation in days from today.
Precalculate using slot search: Activate the precalculation for the slot search.
Intervals in minutes: Specify how often the slot search should be precalculated. To do this, Precalculate using slot search must be active.
End offset (days after today): Determine the end of the pre-calculation for the slot search in days from today. The start is always the current time.
Distance calculation mode (slot search): Choose how the distance is calculated in the slot search.
Distance calculation mode: The distance calculation is used for calculate journey data and split assignments.

The following setting options are available for distance calculation:

Airline calculation: The distance is calculated as the crow flies.
Cache with airline fallback: Before the calculation, a search is made in the cache and in the database. Only if the distance is not found is it calculated as the crow flies.
Cache with geocode fallback: Before the calculation, a search is made in the cache and in the database. Only if the distance is not found, it is calculated with the help of LocationIQ.

Assignment distribution

In the "Assignment distribution" section, you specify whether the capacity is to be corrected relatively. Then the working time of the respective resource is used and the value from the "Capacity correction (minutes)" setting is added to the working time of the resource.

Example: If the resource has a working time of 7 hours and 60 minutes have been specified in the capacity correction, then 8 hours will be planned in the assignment distribution.

If the option is inactive, the absolute capacity is taken into account. For the absolute capacity, the value from the "Capacity correction (minutes)" setting is taken for all resources.

Example: If the capacity correction (minutes) is 480, the assignment distribution is planned with a maximum of 8 hours. Thus, a 7-hour assignment could have approximately one hour for arrival and return journey. If the work or travel time were longer, then the assignment would last several days.

Driving leg limit (min): You can specify the maximum travel time in minutes. An arrival or return journey cannot exceed this limit. Only the resources that meet the specified trip segment limit will be proposed for the assignment.

The following settings are exclusively for the slot planning!

Multi-day assignments. Minimal working duration (min): Define how long you have to work on one day until it is scheduled for several days.

Example: If you set 480 minutes, then if you work 480 minutes, the assignment will be scheduled for one day and if you work 481 minutes, it will be scheduled for two days. If you set 0 minutes, then the setting is inactive.

Multi-day assignments. Minimal duration total (min): Specify the number of minutes of working time and travel time per day from which the assignment will be scheduled for several days.

Example: If you select 600 minutes, then for a 480 minute work time, the arrival and return trips together may only be 120 minutes long without the assignment becoming multi-day. Everything above 600 minutes will then be considered several days. If you set 0 minutes, then the setting is inactive.

Multi-day assignments. Minimal duration first day (min): Enter how much work must be done on the first day of the assignment to start the assignment on that day.

Example: If you set 120 minutes, then at least 120 minutes or more must be worked that day. If you set 0 minutes, then the option is inactive.

Multi-day assignments. Minimal duration last day (min): Select how much must be worked on the last day of the assignment in order to finish the assignment on that day.

Example: If you set 120 minutes, then at least 120 minutes or more must be worked that day. If you set 0 minutes, then the option is inactive.

Multi-day assignments. Optimize overnights: Activate this option to prevent additional overnight stays on an assignment if possible.

Example: If an assignment would be three days long today but only two days long tomorrow, then the shorter assignment, the two-day assignment, will be suggested.

Activate slot-search from now on: Prevents planning in the past. For example, if it is just 8 o'clock, it will be planned from 8 o'clock.
Offset in minutes: Define how much offset should be planned to the current time. If you enter 60 minutes and it is 8 o'clock, then planning will start at 9 o'clock.
Minimal duration for part (min): Enter how much work must be done to make two assignments from one assignment when dividing. If the assignment is shorter than specified in the option, the existing assignment is shortened instead of two assignments being made.
Planning over weekend from X hours: Specify from how many hours of working time may be worked on weekends. If the value is too low, no work is done on weekends in the assignment.