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Chapter 3 Collecting Performance Data
negatively affected by time periods that are scheduled as
unavailable (e.g., weekends, evenings).
Click one the available buttons to access the respective editors
that you can use to create or modify composites, exceptions, or
time patterns:
• Click Composite to assign time patterns and exceptions to
activity areas.
• Click Exception to define availability exceptions and apply
them to appropriate activity areas.
• Click Pattern to define repeating time patterns of available
time, unavailable time, and shifts.
If a site changes shift schedules frequently, the Collect
Scheduled Availability information from the control
system option is more flexible than using a time pattern.
The following table illustrates how data collection will behave for
different configurations of Shift Id and Scheduled Availability.
Shift Data Point
Value
Scheduled Available
Data Point Value
Scheduled Availability
Accumulating
Shift information that is written to the
database
Value > 0
Not Selected
Yes
> 0 value with description.
Value is 0
Not Selected
No
If previous shift value > 0 then -1 * previous Shift
value.
Otherwise, -1 for shift number with no shift
description.
Value < 0
Not Selected
No
< 0 value for shift number with no shift description.
Value > 0
Value is not 0
Yes
> 0 value with description.
Value > 0
Value is 0
No
> 0 value with description.
Value is 0
Value is not 0
Yes
If previous shift value > 0 then -1 * previous Shift
value.
Otherwise, -1 for shift number with no shift
description
Value is 0
Value is 0
No
If previous shift value > 0 then -1 * previous Shift
value.
Otherwise, -1 for shift number with no shift
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