Good morning!
Still digging into scheduling here. I am looking at the Site Maintenance > Details > Planning > Overload Horizon. This has been set to 180 days from our original installation many years ago. I don’t think anyone picked this number for any good reason. How do I know if we need to keep this number or reduce it to 1, or 0?
Thanks!
I believe this only affects the Overload Informer. If your Horizon is set to 180 days, then the Informer will only display resources overloaded within the next 6 months. If you set it to 1 day, it will only show Overload for today or tomorrow. I think if it’s set to 0, it reports overload all the way into the future (no limit).
If you schedule finitely with a horizon and you want to use the Overload Informer, you’ll need to make sure your Overload Horizon is greater than your Finite Horizon since by definition, your finitely scheduled jobs should not overload.
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I think I get it. Overload horizon is only meaningful if I run that overload informer. If I don’t look at my overloaded resources, then I can leave this number at whatever it is at now. If I start looking at overload in the future, then I want this overload horizon to be inside my finite horizon. Otherwise the overload informer would be meaningless (it would show overloaded resources for infinitely scheduled jobs). Am I on the right track?
Thanks!!
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I think so.
If you set your overload horizon to less than or equal to your finite horizon, you should only ever see situations where you somehow loaded more than one job to a resource at a time when everything should be finite. Maybe someone forced a schedule change using infinite scheduling. In that case, Overload Informer lets you see these exceptions and correct them. My goal as a scheduler in this case would be to have this report come up blank every day.
If your overload horizon is more than your finite horizon, you will see the exceptions from above, but you will also see infinitely scheduled jobs that are all overlapping because they’re outside your finite horizon. This gives you a heads-up that you have a lot of overlapping work at your horizon, but may be less useful to see in the Overload Informer.
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