{"id":3927,"date":"2012-06-04T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/?page_id=1273"},"modified":"2012-06-04T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:06:14","slug":"project-planning-time-impositions-and-alerts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/project-planning\/project-planning-features\/project-planning-time-impositions-and-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Planning &#8211; Time impositions and alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Direct Planning Project <\/strong>features a management of time impositions on jobs: <strong>earliest start date<\/strong>, <strong>latest end date<\/strong>, imposed (locked) job position and manual or <strong>automatic alerts<\/strong> to assist the planner.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1405\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/direct_planning_projet_date_de_debut_au_plus_tot.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1405\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1405 \" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/direct_planning_projet_date_de_debut_au_plus_tot-610x169.png\" alt=\"Direct Planning Project - Job with an earliest start date and a manual alert\" width=\"610\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Direct Planning Project &#8211; Job with an earliest start date and a manual alert<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1407\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/direct_planning_projet_contraintes_horaires_detail_de_tache.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1407 \" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/direct_planning_projet_contraintes_horaires_detail_de_tache-610x387.png\" alt=\"Direct Planning Project - Time constraints in job details\" width=\"610\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Direct Planning Project &#8211; Time constraints in job details<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Earliest start date<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On every job of the project, you can enter an <strong>earliest start date<\/strong>. For <strong>Direct Planning<\/strong>, this is strict constraint; which means that, when the\u00a0&#8220;<a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Planning assistance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-planning-assistance\/\"><strong>planning assistance<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; enabled, you are assured that the project order will always be scheduled after that date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It should be noted that\u00a0<a title=\"Project Planning \u2013 Visual flags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/project-planning\/project-planning-features\/project-planning-visual-flags\/\">flags<\/a> \u201cawaiting item receipt\u201d are able to automatically generate a constraint of earliest start date, when you are waiting for an item at a given date.<\/p>\n<h2>Latest end date<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On every job of the project, you can enter a <strong>latest end date<\/strong>. For <strong>Direct Planning<\/strong>, this is a \u201ctarget\u201d constraint; which means that the\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Planning assistance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-planning-assistance\/\">planning assistance<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will help you avoid delays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For this, the schedule generates visual alerts on jobs, when:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Job is <strong>likely to be late<\/strong>: which means that it ends less than X hours before its latest end date.<\/li>\n<li>Job <strong>is late:<\/strong> which means that it ends more than Y hours after its latest end date (tolerance on delay).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Lock the position of a job<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Direct Planning Project <\/strong>also gives the opportunity to lock the position of a job. <a title=\"Industry Planning \u2013 Planning assistance\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/industry-planning\/industry-planning-features\/industry-planning-planning-assistance\/\">The planning assistance<\/a>\u00a0and its <strong>left-adjusting (as soon as possible) or right-adjusting (as late as possible)<\/strong> modes give you the opportunity to automatically place jobs, taking time and\u00a0<a title=\"Project Planning \u2013 Links between jobs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directplanning.com\/en\/project-planning\/project-planning-features\/project-planning-links-between-jobs\/\">job precedence<\/a>\u00a0constraints into account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Locking a jobs assures you that this job will never be moved, nor automatically by the planning assistance, nor manually upon a drag and drop performed by the planner.<\/p>\n<h2>Manual alerts<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further to the <strong>automatic alerts<\/strong> mentioned above, you can enter a <strong>manual alert<\/strong> on each job. 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