A switching sheet may require work to be done that crosses into many weeks or days. In some cases this work may require the crews to repeat certain actions each day. To help create these sheets, a replication value can be specified prior to scheduling the switching sheet. The three options are as follows.

When you attempt to schedule the switching sheet, a confirmation dialog will come up asking you whether the sheet should be replicated or not. At this point, you could decide not to replicate the switching sheet, which will keep the original master sheet as it is and it will be the only sheet for this job.

Once scheduled, the system will determine how many sheets should be created based on the entered Start and Finish dates on the Request tab for the switching sheet. The appropriate dates will be filled out for each of the new switching sheets and the original master sheet's dates will also be modified to account for the division of work between the sheets. The audit log will be updated with entries indicating what sheets were created as part of the replication process.

If a Replication option was selected when the sheet was scheduled, then the user will be asked to cancel any replicated switching sheets when the master switching sheet is canceled. This allows you to easily cancel the entire group of switching sheets rather than having to cancel each replicated sheet individually.