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Increase the default plan length of time to plan works orders in future years

Written by Charnjit Singh Dharival
  • How to amend time limit on a plan.

  • Is there a 5 year limit to a plan?

  • If we move the plan start date forward in time will that allow the site to plan further out into the future?

  • Orders and components are not being read from the plan after a certain date.

  • Orders are not planning due to resource rule error but plan does not use any resource rules


Please complete the following steps:

  1. Log into Orchestrate

  2. Select Tools

  3. Select Options

  4. Defaults to Gantt Chart tab

  5. Increase the figure in the Planning Range field from 5 years to maximum of 10 years.

Note: It is not recommend to increase the default planning range unless absolutely necessary. Increasing the planning range may cause slower performance when using the plan.
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Best practice is to change the Plan Start Date and Time via the following steps:

  1. Select file

  2. plan properties

  3. change date in Plan Start Date and Time field

Note: The plan properties has three dates:-

  • plan start date and time is: the date represents current time on plan

  • the status date and time is: the date which represents when stock was last updated

  • planning start date and time is: the earliest date we can add orders to the plan from

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