How to Perform Manual Assignment
Assigning a Task manually can be done in one of five ways.
The first is dragging and dropping the Task card to the appropriate Driver card
The second way can be done by clicking Task Card ⇒ Assign.
The third way is by dragging and dropping the Task onto the route timeline.
The fourth way is by clicking a specific Driver to display their route and dragging and dropping the selected Tasks onto the opened route.
The fifth way is by dropping the selected Task or Tasks directly onto the route on the map.
You can assign Tasks individually, or multiple Tasks to a Driver or a Team at once, To do this select the Tasks you want to assign, and select 'Assign' from the drop-down Actions menu.
This will prompt a window with a drop-down menu where you can select the appropriate Driver. You can also manually assign Tasks from the List view.
You can also assign Tasks to a particular Team, not just a Driver alone. You'll be able to learn more about assigning a Team to Tasks here.
Manual Assignment Options
When manually adding Tasks to an existing route, eLogii will let the user decide how the Tasks should be placed in the route. The following options are available:
Reoptimize entire route - Adding new Tasks will trigger a full reoptimization of the route, including all existing Tasks. A completely new route may be generated, meaning the original Task order may change in order to achieve the most efficient execution sequence possible.
Optimize insertion only - This option aims to find the best position for newly added Tasks in the route without affecting the already existing ones.
Insert at dropped position - This option allows users to place their Tasks at the exact position they dropped them in the timeline. This applies to cases when Tasks are dropped onto the route timeline or the route on the map, or when they are dropped onto the route side panel.
Insert at beginning - Selecting this option will add the new Tasks at the beginning of the route, before all the existing Tasks in the route.
Insert at end - This option will add Tasks at the end of the route, after all the existing Tasks in the route.
Other Actions
Once in the Route, the order of the Tasks can be re-arranged by grabbing the Task and moving it up or down the Driver's Task list. This will prompt an automatic re-optimization for this particular Driver's route, and the Route will be locked.
When Tasks are manually assigned, to Drivers and if all constraints are accounted for, there shouldn't be any "Unconstrained" label on the Driver's card. However, the "Unconstrained" label appears in two instances.
If a Task is added to a Driver who already has a created route
If Tasks exceed the Driver's Vehicle capacity and/or schedule.
The photo below illustrates both of these cases.
Since the capacity and schedule utilization constraints are not over the limit, it is possible to remove the "Unconstrained" label from the Driver card. To do this, simply select the Driver's route and reoptimize.
By default, when manually assigning Tasks to a Driver's route, the route is automatically reoptimized and Tasks are placed within the Driver's route. However, this can be disabled by switching on the Do not automatically optimize route on update option within Configuration ⇒ Optimization ⇒ Additional options. Once this option has been enabled, if Tasks are manually added to an existing route, they will appear at the bottom of the Route (both the pickup and the delivery option).