Bidding Properties
These properties affect the behavior and appearance of bidding features.
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| Specifies how the system counts continuous days to use against accrual restriction. Choose None if a day off does not break continuity and will span multiple weeks. Choose Day Off if a day off will break continuity. Choose Operational Week if the continuity is restricted in an operational week. | |
| If selected, the bid process will check to see if there are any Absence/Day Off conflicts as a result of the employee's newly selected days off. | |
| Specifies the length of a working day. | |
| If selected, the bid accrual balance tab is read-only and at the start of the employee's bid or entry of a bid absence request, the accrual balance available for bidding is recalculated. | |
| Select the day of the bid that the bid configuration should use to retrieve the Accrual Year when calculating the accrual days available for each employee. | |
| If selected, the bid process checks for any non-recognized absences of this type that fall within the bid period. | |
| If selected, employees can only bid for vacation using the days or weeks defined in the Accrual Year. | |
| If selected, employees can only bid for vacation in the weeks defined in the work bid period. | |
| If selected, allow users to select only the division they are assigned to within that work division bid period for the vacation bid. | |
| If selected, the accrual balance amount is rounded to the nearest full day. | |
| If selected, week numbers for employee vacation weeks appear in the Vacation tab of the Bid screen and on employee pick slips. If not selected, vacation weeks are identified by calendar dates; week numbers do not appear. | |
| If selected, a message box appears at the end of each bid asking the user to confirm the bid data. | |
| Specifies the employees for whom bid information, including Work Planner work assignments, is deleted when an entire bid is deleted. If By Division is selected, bid information is deleted for all employees in the bid division. If By Employee Bid List is selected, bid information is deleted only for employees in the bid's employee list. | |
| If selected, when processing bidding requests for Absence only the first valid bidding group is granted. | |
| If selected, creates a message when the bid choice has been awarded to a specific employee. This selection can provide standard default messages that are included with your system or custom messages that you create. The default setting is unselected. To create your own custom messages, edit the default messages. See ProcessedBidRequestMessage and RollbackorDeleteGrantedBidRequestMessage. | |
| Specifies the date threshold for second pass bidding request times. | |
| Specifies the set of tables used for bidding requests. | |
| If selected, when processing bid requests the work assignment rule warnings are ignored | |
| Specifies the maximum number of bid requests allowed. | |
| Specifies the maximum number of bid requests that are processed during the bid. If set to -1, an unlimited number of bid requests are processed. | |
| Specifies the message text to be sent to an employee who has been awarded a bid. The default message is: Your bidding request(s) have been processed and one of your choices has been awarded. Log into Self-Service to see the PickSlip awarded. To create your own custom messages, edit the default text. Note: any edits permanently replace the default text. To return to the default text, reenter the text. | |
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Specifies the message text to be sent to an employee when a bid has been deleted or rolled back. The default message is: Your previously granted bid requested has been deleted or rolled back. Log into Self-Service to rebid. To create your own custom messages, edit the default text. Note: any edits permanently replace the default text. To return to the default text, reenter the text. |
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| Specifies the time threshold (in minutes) for second pass bidding request times. | |
| Specifies the default time to bid scheduled for each employee. This value appears in the Time to Bid field in the Bidding Time Parameters ancillary data screen. | |
| Specifies the ToTime threshold for next day in second pass bidding request times. | |
| If selected, Enable Enforce Quota Protection function during bidding | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend line group. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend line group as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend run. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend run as Period 1. | |
| Select this property to allow operators to pick the same run name even when the run type or the run ID is different. (Also applies to Extra Work.) | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend run type. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend run type as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday line group. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday line group as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday run. (This also applies to PassRuns bid categories.) | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday run as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday run type. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday run type as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend line group. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend line group as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend run. (This also applies to PassRuns bid categories.) | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend run as Period 1 | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend run type. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend run type as Period 1. | |
| If selected, daily pay time totals appear on the Select Cafeteria Style Work page of the Employee Bid wizard. | |
| If selected, daily work time totals appear on the Select Cafeteria Style Work page of the Employee Bid wizard. | |
| If selected, weekly pay time totals appear on the Select Cafeteria Style Work page of the Employee Bid wizard. To show weekly pay time totals in the wizard, the property must also be selected. | |
| If selected, weekly work time totals appear on the Select Cafeteria Style Work page of the Employee Bid wizard. To show weekly work time totals in the wizard, the property must also be selected. | |
| If selected, Consider Partially Rostered Run. | |
| Specifies how long the system remains idle before displaying a message that prompts the user to continue with bidding. This property is particularly useful for cross-divisional bids that are occurring at different locations. | |
| If selected, the employee has a bid unit that belongs to the custom category, ignore the JobClass filtering when presenting quotas that are flagged as Custom Only. | |
| If selected, day off relief work is selected in two passes. | |
| If selected, all unbid work is available for selection. If not selected, only relief work is available. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick only weekend work on the first pass. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend line group. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend line group as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend run. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend run as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend run type. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday and weekend run type as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday line group. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday line group as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday run. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday run as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday run type. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekday run type as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend line group. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend line group as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend run. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend run as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend run type. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same weekend run type as Period 1. | |
| If selected, when bidding cafeteria-style work, if any days of work have been picked, the rest of the work for the week is available ONLY for the Relief Dayoff Bid unit. If cleared, work remaining in the week can be picked by other operators (and is not saved for the Relief Dayoff Bid Unit). | |
| Specifies the auto-refresh rate in minutes for the Bidding Skill Screen. If the value is zero (0), the screen does not refresh automatically. | |
| If selected, the system will pick the same extraboard type as Period 1. Default
setting is unchecked. For example, if you are creating a bid configuration that contains multiple periods (three) where each period points to different scenarios and quotas, enabling this property means that the employee only needs to select the Extraboard Type once and the work will be applied to all three periods. |
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| This property will be used to determine if, after selection of an EB bid unit quota, the user will be presented with all Stand-by work available for selection. | |
| Specifies whether Trapeze OPS generates holiday bids. If Never is selected, holiday bids are not generated and Auto Holiday Bid is unavailable. If Manual is selected, users can generate holiday bids by selecting Auto Holiday Bid in the Holiday ancillary data screen. If Activate Day is selected, holiday bids are automatically generated when users activate holiday days. |
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| If true, holiday bid will be created by division, otherwise, holiday bid will be created by Agency. | |
| Specifies that, when Trapeze OPS generates a holiday bid, extraboard operators are assigned to the holiday extraboard if the holiday falls on their regular working day. | |
| Specifies that, when Trapeze OPS generates a holiday bid, extraboard operators are assigned to the holiday extraboard if the holiday falls on their regular working day. | |
| Specifies that, when Trapeze OPS generates a holiday bid, extraboard operators are assigned to the holiday extraboard if the holiday falls on their regular day off. | |
| Specifies that, when Trapeze OPS generates a holiday bid, extraboard operators are assigned to the holiday extraboard if the holiday falls on their regular day off. | |
| Specifies that, when Trapeze OPS generates a holiday bid for a hold-down operator's regular day off, the operator is assigned either their holiday bid run or their run for the day, as specified by the property. | |
| Specifies whether, when Trapeze OPS generates a holiday bid for a hold-down operator's regular working day, the operator is assigned to the extraboard or has the day off if there is no matching holiday bid run or run for the day, as specified by the property. If Holiday Extraboard is selected, the operator is assigned to the holiday extraboard. If Holiday Off is selected, the operator is given the holiday off. | |
| Specifies that, when Trapeze OPS generates a holiday bid for a hold-down operator's regular working day, the operator is assigned either their holiday bid run or their run for the day, as specified by the property. | |
| Specifies whether, when Trapeze OPS generates a holiday bid for a hold-down operator's regular working day, the operator is assigned to the extraboard or has the day off if there is no matching holiday bid run or run for the day, as specified by the property. If Holiday Extraboard is selected, the operator is assigned to the holiday extraboard. If Holiday Off is selected, the operator is given the holiday off. | |
| If selected, holiday bid will ignore bid unit if bid work is not extraboard. | |
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Placeholder property (no functionality). Currently, the employee will be assigned matched work based on category Regular or Extraboard. |
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Placeholder property. Currently, only assigns Holiday Extraboard and has no functionality for assigning Holiday Off. |
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Placeholder property (no functionality). Currently, the employee will be assigned matched work based on category Regular or Extraboard. |
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Placeholder property. Currently, only assigns Holiday Extraboard and has no functionality for assigning Holiday Off. |
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| If the employee's roster does not contain holiday work assignments for the
defined holiday, this property specifies the work that Trapeze OPS assigns to operators when generating holiday bids. If Assignment Based on Holiday Service Group is selected, operators are assigned runs from their holiday bids if the holiday is on their regular working day. For example, if a holiday falls on a Thursday and an operator usually works on Thursdays, the operator is assigned their holiday bid run for the day. If Match Observed Day's Assignment to Holiday Service is selected, operators are assigned their regularly scheduled run for the holiday if it is part of the agency's holiday service. For example, if a holiday falls on a Thursday and an operator is assigned to Run 8 on Thursdays, the operator is assigned Run 8 for the holiday if the run is part of the agency's holiday service. |
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| If selected and the employee has Extraboard work on a Holiday, Holiday Day Off will not be shown on the employee's record in the Work Planner, Daily Activity, Employee Activities, and Extra Employee List screens. This also applies to the Day Off view in the Bidding screen. | |
| If selected, an employee is prevented from bidding on a regular piece of work if it falls on a holiday. | |
| If selected, less senior employees are prevented from taking a holiday off if the remaining employees cannot sufficiently cover the remaining holiday work. | |
| Specifies the holiday volunteer type (for example, Day Off Volunteer). Used to check whether an employee volunteered to work on a holiday. | |
| If selected, employees who are scheduled for non-vacation absences are excluded from holiday bids. | |
| If selected, employees who are scheduled to be on vacation are excluded from holiday bids. | |
| If selected, employees who normally have the day off on the holiday are excluded from holiday bids. | |
| If selected, senior employees who intend to work on a holiday must volunteer in advance of the holiday bid. | |
| If selected, extraboard can bid on regular days off. | |
| If selected, extraboard operators can bid on regular working days. | |
| If selected, optional work cannot be selected on a day off. | |
| If selected, vacation relief can bid on regular days off. | |
| If selected, vacation relief can bid on regular working days. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same bid category as Period 1. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick the same bid unit as Period 1. | |
| If selected, a pick slip preview automatically appears at the end of each employee's bid. If not selected, to generate a pick slip, the user must select Report in the Bid Completed page at the end of the Employee Bid wizard. | |
| If selected, the system uses a custom pick slip. | |
| If selected, a company representative signature line appears on pick slips. | |
| If selected, the system date appears on pick slip signature lines. | |
| If selected, an employee signature line appears on pick slips. | |
| If selected, a union representative signature line appears on pick slips. | |
| If selected, only the first week of a bid period is displayed in custom pick slips. | |
| Specifies the path and file name of the .xsl style sheet used to format the pick slip. | |
| If selected, supplementary fields appear in pick slip run details. | |
| If selected, With the exception of Section Bid, all bid configuration pages will be read only. Users cannot perform any update activity. | |
| If selected, the first bid pass is used for employees to indicate their willingness to take relief rosters. During the second pass, employees bid on relief rosters. | |
| If selected, the Weeks value for OPS Roster Type ancillary data can be 1 (weekly) or 2 (biweekly). If the property is not selected, the value can only be 1. | |
| for the case when a holiday work is scheduled on a day off of a Roster. When an employee bid for that roster, on that holiday date he will not have a RDO. (Remove the Day Off for that employee on the day of the holiday only). | |
| If selected, use Roster Management Screen to maintain Roster Holiday Information. | |
| For the case when a holiday is scheduled on a regular work day of a Roster, however, there is no work assignment for that holiday. When an employee bid for that roster, a day off will need to be created for that employee on that Holiday date. | |
| Specifies the hourly rate in dollars and cents used for calculating roster pay. | |
| If selected, rosters/roster relief quotas are included in the quota import. | |
| If selected, system will pick the same roster as period 1 for the employee.
Default setting is unchecked. For example, if you are creating a bid configuration that contains multiple periods (three) where each period points to different scenarios and quotas, enabling this property means that the employee only needs to select the Roster once and the work will be applied to all three periods using the Roster Name. |
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| If selected, the Roster Management screen can be used to maintain roster Type information. | |
| If selected, use the Roster Management Screen to maintain Roster Information. If this property is not selected, the OSP Roster managements screen is read-only and labeled as such. | |
| Specifies whether rosters will be displayed in a combo box or a grid. | |
| If selected, roster pay is calculated using a custom procedure. | |
| Select which supplementary fields can be added to the employees grid in the Bidding screen. | |
| Specifies bid units for skipped bid employees. If Use Previous Bid Unit is selected, the system uses the bid unit from the last day of the previous sign-up period. If Use Default Bid Unit is selected, the system uses the bid unit specified by the property. If Do Not Generate Bid Unit is selected, Trapeze OPS does not assign bid units for skipped bid employees. |
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| Specifies days off for skipped bid employees. If Use Previous Days Off is selected, the system uses the days off from the last week of the previous signup period. If Use Default Days Off is selected, the system uses the days off specified by the property. | |
| Specifies the default bid unit to use if the property is set to Use Default Bid Unit. | |
| If selected, employee selections from previous bids are set as defaults. | |
| Specifies the number of data rows to scroll through in the Days Off pane of the Unbid Work Quota Inquiry screen when data is automatically refreshed. If the value is zero (0), automatic scrolling is disabled in the Days Off pane. | |
| Specifies the frequency in seconds for automatically refreshing data in the Unbid Work Quota Inquiry screen when the Enable Auto-refresh option is selected in the Context. If the value is zero (0), the automatic data refresh is disabled. | |
| Specifies the number of data rows to scroll through in the Unbid Work pane of the Unbid Work Quota Inquiry screen when data is automatically refreshed. If the value is zero (0), automatic scrolling is disabled in the Unbid Work pane. | |
| If selected, Section will be used during the bidding. | |
| If selected, the list of operators is not limited to those who have already bid and have work. An operator can bid for the vacation relief work of an operators who has not yet bid. In this case, the operator is highlighted in another color. | |
| Specifies how the system handles days off for vacation relief: Choose Use Quota Days Off or Use Previous Week. This property supports the property. | |
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If selected, the Vacation Relief employees are allowed to select holiday bid options in case they do not have coverage. |
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If selected, the Vacation Relief employees inherit the Holiday Work selected by the employees they are covering. In this case, the holiday work selection is not displayed. They are not allowed to participate in a holiday bid if they are doing relief during that time. |
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| If selected, vacation relief work is selected in two passes. | |
| If selected, the employee must pick all weeks from the bid period or periods. | |
| If selected, system will pick the same vacation relief and day off as period 1
for the employee. Default setting is unchecked. For example, if you are creating a bid configuration that contains multiple periods (three) where each period points to different scenarios and quotas, enabling this property means that the employee only needs to select the Vacation Relief Type once and the work will be applied to all three periods. |
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| If selected, the Vacation Relief employees who are scheduled to be on vacation are excluded from holiday bids. | |
| If selected, Vacation Relief employees that are not covering any employee on the holiday week will have holiday selections displayed based on the Extraboard properties under .* | |
| If selected, Consider Holiday Work. | |
| If selected, Open Rosters are automatically loaded. | |
| Specifies the columns that will be excluded from being shown in the Work Detail and Assignment Details reports. | |
| If checked, the Bid Unit will be displayed. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, and the Roster Management screen. | |
| If checked, the Block Name will be displayed. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, the Pick Slip, and the Bidding Details report. | |
| If checked, the daily Pay Time will be displayed. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, the Pick Slip, and the Bidding Details report. | |
| If checked, the daily Work Time will be displayed. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, the Pick Slip, and the Bidding Details report. | |
| If checked, each service group (Weekday, Saturday, Sunday, and Holiday) for regular work will appear on a separate line. This property is used in the Pick Slip. | |
| If checked, the Line Group will be displayed for FX runs. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, the Pick Slip, and the Bidding Details report. | |
| If checked, optional work will appear in a separate section. This property is used in the Pick Slip. | |
| If checked, the Sign On and Sign Off location will be displayed for FX runs. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, the Pick Slip, and the Bidding Details report. | |
| If checked, the weekly Pay Time will be displayed. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, the Pick Slip, and the Bidding Details report. | |
| If checked, the weekly Work Time will be displayed. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, the Pick Slip, and the Bidding Details report. | |
| Specifies the work times that will be displayed. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, the Pick Slip, and the Bidding Details report. | |
| If selected, comments will be shown for Rosters. This property is used in the Roster Management screen. | |
| If checked, the Roster Pay Time will be displayed. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, and the Roster Management screen. | |
| If checked, the Roster Work Time will be displayed. This property is used in the Work tab of the Bid screen, the Bid Assignments page in Employee Profile, and the Roster Management screen. | |
| If selected, supplementary data is returned to the Work Details view of the Work Planner. |