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Adding Employee Availability to a Schedule

You can add availability (number of hours available to work) for an employee to an availability schedule. If an employee currently does not have any hours available for a trade on a schedule, you can add hours for that trade. You will then be able to assign tasks with requirements for that trade to the employee.

For example, if Pat is currently available to a schedule as a mechanic but he can also be a machinist, you can add the number of hours that he will work as a machinist on the schedule. If Jane (a mechanic) is not on the schedule at all, you can also add the number of hours that she will spend on her trade to the schedule.

To Add an Employee to a Schedule

1.	Open the schedule.

2.	Make sure that editing is enabled.

3.	From the Availability view, select the Employee Trade Availability tab. The table on this tab shows all of the employees that have availability on the schedule. If an employee has availability for more than one trade, that employee has a separate entry for each trade availability.

4.	To add an employee or a new trade availability for an employee, click New. The New Employee Availability dialog appears.

5.	Select the Trade that the employee will perform from the list.

6.	Select the Employee from the list.

7.	Enter the amount of time and units that the employee will be available in the Availability box.

8.	Type any comments in the Availability box.

9.	Click OK to save and close the dialog. APM adds the availability to the schedule, and you can now assign tasks to the employee.

10.	When you are finished, click Close to close the Availability dialog.