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Balancing Grid Cells
The Balancing Grid Cells display the staffing values for the profile/organization unit/coverage period (or activity) combination for each day in the scheduling period.
The user can select the type of staffing value to display. The following staffing value options are available:
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Staffing Value |
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Coverage |
Displays the number of staff scheduled to provide coverage during the coverage period. This value is calculated from the employee scheduled activity codes which overlap the coverage period. |
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Need |
Displays the number of staff required to provide coverage during the coverage period. This value is taken from the Staffing Plan (for the Balancing Grid) and the Core Staffing Plan (for the Activity Balancing Grid). |
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Fraction |
Displays a fraction of the coverage value over the need value. |
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Variance |
Displays the difference between the coverage and the need. A positive variance indicates over-staffing, and a negative variance indicates under-staffing. |
Balancing Grid Only
The acceptable variance setting allows the user to determine the level at which overstaffed and understaffed staffing values are color highlighted in the balancing grid.
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When the variance between coverage and need meets or exceeds the acceptable variance values, then any understaffed (negative variance) values are highlighted in red and any overstaffed (positive variance) values are highlighted in blue.
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When the variance between coverage and need is less than the acceptable variance value, the values are not highlighted and display in gray.
The acceptable variance values is set up by accessing the right-click menu in the balancing grid, then selecting .
When a user sets the focus on a profile/coverage period cell in the balancing grid, the schedules of employees providing coverage for that coverage period are highlighted in the schedule grid (in gold).
This same information can be viewed in another way in the Staffing Details screen. Double-click on a cell to open this view.