MRS 700 planning board alternative working schedule

Hi MRS-colleagues,
There is a button in the planning board "alternative working schedule. If I highlight one resource, Ican define an alternative working schedule for this resource, based on a period HR-subtype and daily working schedule.
My question is, if you assign this alternative working schedule to a resource, then the display and calculation of the availibility will be changed for the respective period. A business case for this could be, that you have to schedule more work to a technician than his availibility allows. The benefit compared to a attendance time allocation is, that you can create a daily work schdule and assign it for a period instead of creating attendances manually. Is that correct?
Do you have guuys have some practical cases, where this functionality is used? Are there any "bad consequences" of the usage and can I just use it permanently and then remove the "transfer availiblity" tag from the HR Transfer report?
BR
Olaf

Hi,
As you said the purpose of alernative workschedule and the HR report are same. There are no impacts if you use this button. Apart from the actual workschedule if you want to assign some more work to a technician you can do through this. This will not greyed out the planningboard for that period. on the top of availability in the gantt chart, it will be appear as a bar to identify the type of work you has assigned.
Regards
Satish

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Because the current MRS thread is some long and complicated I chose to move this question into a seperate thread:
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Edited by: Mark Scott on Aug 13, 2009 8:58 AM

Thanks for the response:
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Mark
Edited by: Mark Scott on Aug 18, 2009 9:57 AM
Edited by: Mark Scott on Aug 18, 2009 6:18 PM
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