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The user may also select one or more Activities from the Activities Spreadsheet and automatically schedule
or unschedule the selection. This enables the user to part-schedule the activities belonging to an object if
required.
The Schedule and Unschedule buttons can also be placed on the toolbar using the capability outlined in Section
2.2.
Figure 107 Schedule and unscheduled buttons
5.2 Adjusting Scheduling Preferences
The user is also able to influence the way the scheduling engine automatically schedules activities by
adjusting the Scheduling Preferences. This process is undertaken by selecting Scheduling Preferences from the
Tools drop-down menu.
This opens the Scheduling Preferences window. Scheduling Preferences can be balanced against each other
to obtain the preferred schedule on the timetable when scheduling. Each of the tabs, has different preferences
listed:
Figure 108 Scheduling preferences
A simple example of changing Scheduling Preferences to influence the automatic scheduling of a Staff
timetable is illustrated below.
With the Usage Spread set to a higher priority the activities of the staff member will have to be scheduled
evenly across the week as far as possible.
Figure 109 High priority for spreading staff activities
The outcome is shown on the Staff Timetable Grid:
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