Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Scheduler Users Guide - Manual (Page 72)

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Unallocated Jobs Window and places them on the planning board. The resulting schedule
is shown next.
Each scheduled operation on the planning board is represented by a colored bar. You will
note that all the operations that comprise an order are the same color, and the order name
appears on each bar. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to read many of the order names because
each bar is scaled to represent the operation time. You can modify this view by using the
View > Zoom To Fit, View > Zoom In, or View > Zoom Out menu options.
The Zoom To Fit is a toggle option that shows the entire time horizon in a compressed
format. When the Zoom To Fit option is toggled on, the Zoom In and Zoom Out options
are disabled. For our tutorial system, the Zoom To Fit option provides a clear view of all
the orders and operations. For larger systems with a large number of orders and a longer
time frame, this view may compress or reduce the size of each operation to the point
where it provides very little information.
If your current view has the Zoom To Fit option on, you may want to toggle it to the off
position. This will allow the other two zoom options to be used. By zooming in several
times, many of the order names will become readable, although you will be looking at a
much smaller section of the total schedule.
In generating our schedule, we only used one of the numerous automatic methods
provided by FactoryTalk Scheduler. In the next chapter, we will look at how you can
compare different schedules.