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Automatically Scheduling Standard Jobs

You can set up APM to automatically schedule work orders that have been created from a standard job.

If the job’s maintenance group uses availability scheduling, you must select a Schedule template.

With automatic availability scheduling, when a work order is generated from a standard job, APM checks for an existing schedule for the work order’s planned start date. Only schedules created from the standard job’s schedule template are considered. If an appropriate schedule exists, the work order’s tasks are added to the schedule. If an appropriate schedule does not exist, APM creates it and then adds the tasks to the schedule.

Tasks can be scheduled over multiple schedules, depending on the task durations and the schedule duration. For example, if a work order contains three 12-hour tasks, and the schedule duration is 12 hours, the tasks are scheduled on three consecutive schedules.

When multiple future work orders are generated from a standard job, each work order is scheduled on the appropriate schedule. If the work order’s start dates are adjusted as a result of the completion date of an earlier work order, the related schedule entry is moved to the appropriate schedule.

If the job’s maintenance group uses simple scheduling, you do not select a schedule template. The system will use the work order’s planned start date to add the work order tasks to the maintenance group’s schedule.

To Set Up a Standard Job for Automatic Scheduling

1.	Open the standard job.

2.	Make sure that editing is enabled.

3.	Select the Work Order Rules tab.

4.	Select the option Automatically schedule work orders using template.

5.	Select a schedule template to use.

6.	When you are finished, Save the standard job.