24Planning Summer '25 Release
The summer release of 24Planning focuses on non-working time, quite appropriate for a summer release 😉. We have introduced two great new concepts:
A new way to define unavailability of individual resources.
The capability to schedule events that partly overlap with non-working time.
Defining Unavailability of Individual Resources
We already had the concept of Work Schedules and Work Schedule Lines. These are a great way to define working hours and public holidays. The concept also allows for shifts, i.e. each shift has its own work schedule and a field on the resource links to the appropriate shift work schedule.
We have now complemented this with Resource Availability. In the Resource Availability configuration, you define a custom object that holds information on unavailability of individual resources, e.g. absences or holidays of employees or downtime of individual machines.
You can combine Work Schedules and Resource Availability in a single deployment.
Scheduling events that partly overlap with non-working time
Previously, it was not possible to schedule events that partly overlap with non-working time.
Now we have introduced a new scheduling mode called Duration. It changes the behaviour as follows.
Assume you have a 3 hour event that starts at 4pm on Tue. Let’s assume the workday ends at 5pm and commences again on Wednesday at 9am. Then the event will be displayed as starting on 4pm on Tue and ending at 11am on Wednesday, i.e. 24Planning automatically recomputes the event duration such that the work can be spread across multiple days, with non-working time in between.
As a consequence, it is no longer required to split events to fit over multiple days, 24Planning will automatically extend the event total duration, taking into account non-working time.
Read-only Permission Set
We have added a new permission set for 24Planning, specific for read-only users. These users can consult one or multiple dataset in the planning board but are not allowed to update events via 24Planning.