Understanding the Blocking Screen

You can link a series of trips to form blocks using the Blocking screen.

Before opening the Blocking screen, select the appropriate Sign-up period, Line Group, Service Group, and if applicable, set the Exception Combo off or select an applicable exception combination in the Set Mode dialog box.
  1. To display the Blocking screen, do one of the following steps:
    • Click Task > Blocking.
    • Click the Blocking button: Blocking button.
    The Blocking screen contains two tabs: Blocking and Deadheads. It opens with the Blocking tab by default.
    Sample data on Blocking screen
    If exceptions are applied on trips, the rows are in color as shown in the following example:
    Sample blocks with exceptions in color
  2. Optional: To view columns that are not within view on the screen, click the horizontal scroll bar.
    Only the columns that display times now move to the left or right depending on how the scroll bar is dragged. If you scroll to the right, the columns on the left remain static while the node columns, starting with the first node appear to slide under the static columns as the hidden columns are displayed.
  3. Optional: To move up and down the grids, use the arrow keys.
  4. To access Blocking features that are not in the Edit dialog box, click Blocking on the main menu.

    If the Blocking screen has been set to Read-Only in the FX Security tool, the options on the Blocking menu that allow users to edit records will not be activated, that is, they will appear shaded. (Contact your system administrator about the setting of Security levels in the FX Security tool.)

    Note: You can copy and paste sections of the grid into an Excel spreadsheet.