You can customize your screen by selecting Customized Font Type/ Size, Height of Rows and defining various options concerning Rotation plan.
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Go to the Options > Rotation Shift Gantt:
Appearance tab
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Timeblock is the shift block in Rotation.
Select font type and size for rotation module.
Highlight Active time-block by color. There is a possibility to highlight a selected shift with a color you choose.
Confirmed 'Empty Shift' color. When a user confirms a shift to be empty, it is highlighted with the selected color.
Modified shifts frame color - modified shifts are shown in a frame of the selected color.
For example:
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When Apply button is clicked after some modifications, the frame is not shown any more.
Hint - used to define colour & time (in seconds) for a hint to be displayed when pointing a mouse to Gantt element and whether to wrap the text in the box.
Height of rows with overlapped timeblocks. It is also possible to define height of rows with overlapped timeblocks. This was done for convenience, because it is not always convenient to read persons' names on such shifts.
Minimum days to define an overlap – is set by the company.
Promotion Links. You can define, if you want to see the links between promotions shifts or not.
If you want the links to be seen, set Show option, select the color and pen width.
The promotion links will be displayed as the line connecting one shift to another:
If you do not want promotion links to be seen, select Hide option (do not recommend):
Display Data tab
Display Data - here you can select what data should be shown on the Maintenance screen:
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In the Period section, select the planning period you want to be displayed by the Gantt:
Entire plan
Period between the dates
Number of days
In the Gantt Tree Area section, you can select the position/rank to be displayed in the Rotation tree as:
Position code, e.g. CAPT
Position name
Rank name
Hide positions that have no shifts in the future. Setting the checkbox lets you hide all positions in the plan that do not have any shifts in the future comparing to current date.
Display department name behind position. You can also set the department name to be displayed after the position name in the Rotation tree. It is very useful if your organization structure contains the same position names in different departments.
Timeblocks section
Scale starts from today - the rotation will show data from today's date.
Display person's initials instead of name
Gantt Diagram Area section
Please set the checkbox for the element that you want to be displayed additionally to standard approach.
Ports & Vessel Projects are displayed right above the assignment section.
a.Plan shows Calling Ports in the top row.
b.Plan shows Vessel Projects under ports row.
It is easy to see relations between shifts and these elements.
Experience/Certification Requirements - It is possible to follow visually Vessel-combined competence requirements during the planning process.
See here for details
Details Area section
If Display additional information in shift details option is selected, you will be able to see contract and payscale information for assigned person on Shift Detail tab.
Requirements Check tab
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Required Combined Experience and Competences Check – define interval of days forward, for which Combined Experience validation will be applied.
We do not recommend to set a big number of days but only to limit it to some short planning period (e.g. 30). Setting a long period will result in application poor performance due to increased volume of data for processing.
When the number of days is defined - each Rotation Plan will show additional line Required Competences above all positions in the Rotation tree.
This line will show colored cells for the days, where assigned crew is NOT covering Competence Requirements as defined for this Vessel / Vessel Type / Operator.
See here for details
Shift Assignee Documents Check
In the Interval that need to be checked starting from today's date field you can input a nr of days (in our example 180).
Then all shifts with persons whose documents are expiring within next 3 months will be highlighted with yellow exclamatory sign
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Other - here you can define additional settings:
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Define what datagroup/module for assigned person will be opened once you double-click the shift.
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It is also possible to maintain positions in your rotation plan by right-click on the tree area:
Refresh Position Row
It is used for situations when some overlapped shifts for one position look squeezed on the gantt diagram. Performing this command will help you to display all shifts as they should.
Adding Positions
You can add a position manually after plan activation.
Fill in all the necessary information (select position, define rotation, add shifts, set for what period shifts need to be pasted):
Rotations and shifts are available according to given definition - see Shifts Definition section.
You will see a warning message how many shifts are added. If it is enough for you, click Yes > Apply.
The newly added position will be placed in the tree & will have a different icon to be distinguished:
The newly added position will be placed in the tree & will have a different icon to be distinguished:
The same functionality is available under Manage menu > Position:
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Note that it is not possible to add shifts and positions to a rotation plan, when this plan is opened By Filter > By Vessel/Rank. |
Delete Positions
It is possible to delete only positions that are:
added on the maintenance phase (after plan activation);
linked to not-assigned (empty) shift.
Warning message is shown if the user tries to delete the position that does not fulfill the mentioned rules.
Besides, if there is a position with empty shifts only, it is possible to delete all shifts for that position, and after that it will be removed from the rotation tree.
The same functionality is available under Manage menu > Position:
Move Positions (rarely used)
Option that enables you to move a position with empty/linked shifts to any of existing activated plans.
For this purpose, please tag the correct position(s) & select one of available plans from Target RP list:
Click Move positions button.
Adding Shifts
It is possible to add shifts to any position for a certain period.
Please right-click needed position and select Add Shift(s):
Please define 
the shifts to be added and the period.
The Delay field is to define the delay that will take place after the Date From that is selected.
The same functionality is available under Manage menu > Position/Shift/Multiple Shifts:
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Note that it is not possible to add shifts and positions to a rotation plan, when it is opened By Filter > By Vessel/Rank. |