This article explains how to add Extra Days on Sign On/ Off starting from APM v.2022.10.
You might also be interested in reading the Deviation article.
Introduction
Sometimes there are cases when we need to split onboard days for the crew into several types (e.g. Regular Onboard, Onboard Quarantine, Sick Onboard), and for those days the person should receive different payments in Payroll.
Especially for such a situation, we have provided the possibility to register Extra Days on Sign On/ Off in Rotation Planning, which will be reflected both in Activities and in Payroll.
It is also possible to have such activities overlap with regular onboard and leave when necessary.
Let's check in detail how to set up and use this functionality.
Setup
Open Global Options and activate the Register Extra Days option under the Activities tab.
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The extra days we added will be then shown in activity details.
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If you want extra activities to overlap regular onboard and leave turn on the Allow overlap on other activity types option on the activity code under the General Codes > Activity Codes.
Usage
Open Rotation Planning and select the shift where you want to add Extra Days (e.g. for Onboard quarantine).
Open Shift Details and define Extra Days on Sign On/ Off, along with the activities to be used for those days.
You will see that our shift has become hashed - this is how we identify that there are extra days for this shift.
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Change the length of the regular shift, before you add Extra Days. If it should overlap the onboard period, leave everything as it is.
Use the menu Shift > Add Shift Extension to the regular shift.
Define the details on if you want to extend the shift for sign-on or sign-off. Set the number of days & activity that is allowed to overlap other shifts. Then click Ok.
The extra days will be added to Rotation Grid under a separate shift. Both shifts will be hashed (///) to easily identify them.
A separate activity will also be created for the extra days in the Activities Datagroup which will also be reflected in the Activities Guntt.
Once we calculate we will see that all the payroll entries are split days based on the Extra Days that we added.
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Ordinary Onboard entries
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