Link an Activity

You can link activities to make sure that they occur in a certain order when the routing is run. Activities you might want to link include, a trip to the depot to pick up a piece of non-standard inventory prior to an installation, or a job that involves multiple workers performing related tasks in a certain sequence. You can automatically link activities using Inbound APIs.

Before you start

You must create link types, before you can link activities.

To link activities manually:

Here's what to do

1. Click the hamburger icon and then click Dispatch Console.
2. On the resource tree, select the resource that has the first activity assigned to it.
   The resource's activities display.
3. Click the first activity that you want to link.
   The activity hint displays.
4. Click Details to view the activity details.
5. Click Activity Links
6. Click Add link.
   The Add link dialog box displays.
7. Select the type of link that you want to use from the drop-down list, that is, Start after.
8. Use the next field to search for the activity that you want to link to the first activity.
9. Click Link.
   The new link displays in a GANTT-like chart.
10. If an error message displays, hover over the error icon to review the message and make changes as necessary.
    Error messages may relate to unsupported links, the maximum and minimum intervals required by the link type you have chosen, or to other scheduling and assignment constraints. You may have to create a new link type.