Use this activity to update relevant work assignments with changes coming from the scheduled plan from Planning and Scheduling Optimization (PSO). By performing this activity work assignments will be updated with the latest scheduled plan from PSO. The fields that can be updated on the work assignment is Allocated Start, Allocated Finish and Duration.
When a work assignment is created by a commit from PSO or by the SDS it will be created with the data in the plan from where it was committed. If there has been changes to the activity in the coming plans after the commit, this will be denoted on the allocation record from the suggested plan by that the Plan Changes will be set to YES on the allocation. The allocation records can be found in Scheduling Information page.
To update the work assignment to the information provided in the latest plan select the option Update Plan Changes on allocations where the Plan Changes is set to YES. The option Update Plan Changes is also available in the Scheduled Work Tasks page.
It is also possible to set up a Scheduled Dataset Task to continuously run the Update Plan Changes function for allocations that has been changed after they were committed.
As a result of this activity, work assignments on the work task will be updated with the information from the latest scheduled plan from PSO.