Concepts Tasks Settings Creating Schedule Templates Contents Creating a Schedule Template Setting Schedule Template Properties Using the Schedule Template Hierarchy Creating a Set of Schedule Templates Setting up Schedule Templates for a 28-Day (4-Week) Shift Rotation Setting Availability on a Template Opening a Schedule Template The topics in this section explain how to work with schedule templates in APM. You can use work schedules to track when work order tasks will be started and completed and to track the availability of employees and trades to complete the tasks. Creating schedule templates will make the process of scheduling work order tasks easier. Schedule templates are defined as a hierarchy, similar to the actual schedule hierarchy. The hierarchy describes the relationship between the different schedule templates. For example, if you are using weekly, daily, and shift schedules, you will create 29 schedule templates (1 weekly template, 7 daily templates, and 21 shift templates at 3 shifts per day) to define one full set of schedules. When a new weekly schedule is created from the weekly template, APM also creates the 7 daily schedules and 21 shift templates using the template hierarchy. At first glance the number of templates required for a full set of schedules might appear intimidating. However, you only have to define the templates once. When the templates are complete, APM has the information required to create all of the schedules.
