Activities

Deleting Activities
Activities cannot be deleted once they have been created.  Think carefully before creating these.

The work calendar is a combination of both activities and shifts which represents the working hours, holiday calendar, breaks, plant shutdowns and shift schedules.  Before you can use LYNQ for detailed scheduling, you must define a work calendar.  Work calendars are configured within Visual APS and are setup independently of Enterprise Resource Planning.  

Before a resource can be seen as available for scheduling purposes, the resource must be associated with a Shift.  Shifts are used to define the available capacity of a resource. Shifts contain different activity types to identify working time from non-working time and downtime. A shift may contain multiple activity types.

The default activity types included in the application are:

• Working time
• Non-working time
• Lunch time
• Maintenance time
• Approved overtime

To create new activities

1. Open Visual APS
2. Click on the Home Menu
3. Click Activities
4. Click Add New
5. Enter a value in the Activity Code field
6. Enter a suitable description in the Activity Description field
7. Select a Color for the activity by clicking […]
8. Select whether the Activity type is Working or Downtime
9. Click OK
10. Click OK