Core TSIs : Work assignments : Setting the Feature switch and License check : Implications of activating multiple work assignments
Implications of activating multiple work assignments
Feature switch enabled with multiple work assignments setting activated
The following table displays the impact on various elements / events in Planon if you enable the feature switch in System Settings and set the Activate 'Multiple Work Assignments'? setting on Orders to Yes, in Field definer.
Description
Before
After
Effort
Take over Effort from the order to the work assignment
Fields are not disabled.
Disables the Effort field.
When changing the order reference field on the work assignment, fields will be taken over from the new order reference.
The work assignment's Effort field is taken over.
The work assignment's Effort field is not taken over.
Resizes Work Assignment.
Calculates a new Effort value if needed when start date-time of work assignment is changed.
Does not calculate Effort value when start date-time of work assignment is changed.
Calculate End date-time or Effort on Work Assignment.
Calculation allowed.
No calculation allowed.
Calculate End date-time or Effort on Order.
Calculation allowed.
No calculation allowed.
Effort/Budgeted hours
Updating Effort / Original budgeted hours on the order.
Updates both Effort and Original budgeted hours.
Updates Original budgeted hours only.
Budgeted hours
Checks whether budgeted hours based resourcing should be used.
Never use budgeted hours based resourcing, even if the order has remaining budgeted hours.
Uses budgeted hours based resourcing if the order has remaining budgeted hours.
Disables Fields.
Disables Original budgeted hours and Assigned hours fields.
Fields are not disabled.
Returns whether a given order has 'Remaining budgeted hours'.
Always returns "false". Does not perform the actual check.
Checks whether the order has remaining hours.
Calculates Assigned hours and Planned end date-time based on calculation type and updates on work assignment.
Calculation not allowed.
Calculation allowed.
Validates that Assigned hours field cannot be changed.
Validation takes place.
No validation.
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Functionality for multiple work assignments becomes available if the Work assignments licence and the feature switch are both activated. The following fields will become editable: Original budgeted hours (on the order), Assigned hours (on the work assignment). On standard orders both fields are always editable. The Effort field on orders and work assignments will no longer be functional, as this field is only useful for 1:1 planning. If you migrate from 1:1 planning to multiple work assignments, you have two options in populating the Original budgeted hours field:
•    If there are relatively few orders to migrate: manually copy the value of the Effort field into the Original budgeted hours field, per order.
•    If there are relatively many orders to migrate: use an Enterprise Talk import/export definition to export the value from the Effort field and import it into the Original budgeted hours field for the whole bulk of orders.
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See the Enterprise Talk user documentation for information on creating export and import definitions.