Save Schedule Result to Database

Explanation

This activity is used to save your schedule changes to the database. By performing this activity, changes are saved directly to the database by Maintenance Planning Board (MPB) adhering to the database validations.

Prerequisites

This activity requires:

• a work order or PM action occurrence schedule, when working with the Maintenance Planning Board.
• at least one unsaved change in the schedule.
• when working with the Maintenance Planning Board, that no changes is made outside of the Maintenance Planning Board to the items that you are trying to save. If there is a change in one or more of the items, you will be notified of the modifications and will not be allowed to save back via the Maintenance Planning Board. Only items which do not have modifications can be saved.

System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• The schedule is saved to the database. The planned start and finish times of work orders, work tasks, PM actions occurrences and work lists will be updated if they have been scheduled.
• The Scheduling Status field on work tasks and work lists of the PM action occurrences, will be updated to Scheduled if Maintenance Planning Board was able to allocate resources and schedule the work orders or PM action occurrences adhering to scheduling rules.
• The Scheduling Status of a work task and work lists of the PM action occurrences, will be updated to Unscheduled if at least one of the jobs and one of the respective work list is "unscheduled" by Maintenance Planning Board due to the inability to meet any of scheduling requirements or constraints.
• The Scheduling Status of a work task and work lists of the PM action occurrences, will be updated to Needs Rescheduling if work order or PM action occurrence is not yet scheduled by Maintenance Planning Board or the earlier created schedule is changed by the user by modifying some attribute which affect scheduling.
• The Sched Status of a work order and Scheduling Status of a PM Action occurrence will be set as Resolved if all the jobs and respective work lists are "scheduled" by Maintenance Planning Board.
• The Sched Status of a work order and Scheduling Status of a PM Action occurrence will be set as Unresolved (Tardy) if all the jobs and respective work lists are "scheduled" by Maintenance Planning Board but the work order or the PM action occurrence is scheduled later than its required finish date.
• The Sched Status of a work order and Scheduling Status of a PM Action occurrence will be set as Unresolved if at least one of the jobs and on of the respective work list is "unscheduled" by Maintenance Planning Board due to the inability to meet any of the scheduling requirements or constraints.
• The Sched Status of a work order and Scheduling Status of a PM Action occurrence will show Needs Rescheduling if work order or PM action occurrence is not yet scheduled by Maintenance Planning Board or the earlier created schedule is changed by the user by modifying some attribute which affects scheduling.
• You will be notified if any of the changes cannot be saved successfully by Maintenance Planning Board by displaying errors and notifications in the Error Messages window.
• If there are scheduled resource breaks, status and the planned start and finish date of the resource break is updated to the database.

Window

Maintenance Planning Board
Maintenance Planning Board for Planning Network

Related Window Descriptions

Maintenance Planning Board Client 

Procedure

1. Open the Maintenance Planning Board client.
2. In the Site field, specify a site for which you need to start Maintenance Planning Board.
3. The Maintenance Planning Board opens and work orders, PM actions along with other activities and data will be loaded.
4. Make the desired scheduling changes by using the Gantt chart.
5. From the File menu, choose Save or select Database Save... icon in the tool bar
6. The Saving Schedule changes...dialog box will appear and the schedule will saved to the database.
7. You will be notified if there are no changes to be scheduled or if there are any errors when saving to the database.