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Staged Changes on the EDGEBIC Planner Board
Nothing on the Planner board is written until you press Save Changes, and a machine-only change writes no actual dates at all. What staging protects, and what saving actually records.
Why EDGEBIC Refuses a Drop on the Planner Board
A refused drop is never silent and never destructive. EDGEBIC keeps the machine, keeps your time shift, and puts the reason on the status line. Here is every refusal and what it means.
Why Planner View Focus Is Never Saved in EDGEBIC
Clicking a bar re-orders the machine block for as long as you are looking at it. It is a way of seeing, not a setting, so it never touches your saved configuration.
Dropping an Operation Back on Its Own Machine in EDGEBIC
On the Planner board, dropping an operation on the machine it already runs on is read as a re-time, never as a second assignment. And a drop with no time change stages nothing at all.
Why an Operation Appears Twice in the EDGEBIC Planner View
On the Planner board every operation draws on its job lane and on its machine lane. It is one operation drawn twice, not a duplicate, and the two bars always move together.
The Planner View in EDGEBIC: Jobs and Machines on One Board
The Planner view puts a block of job lanes above the full machine list on one Schedule View board, so a routing and the plant's load read together and a drag between them assigns work.
Choosing the Right Schedule View in EDGEBIC
EDGEBIC has several production schedule views, and each answers a different question. A guide to picking the right surface for the plant, one machine, one job, or load.
Following a Job From the Gantt to Its Routing in EDGEBIC
A bar on the schedule board is a doorway. The drill-down path from one Gantt bar to the job's hours, its change history, and the routing it is actually running.
How the EDGEBIC Gantt Refreshes After a Change
Why the schedule board sometimes patches a few bars and sometimes reloads everything, what each behavior protects, and the one case that clears your pending drags.
Reading Parallel and Alternate Branches on the EDGEBIC Canvas
Three connector types, three very different meanings. How the EDGEBIC routing designer draws a sequential step, a parallel machine, and a true alternative.
Sharing a Gantt Configuration Across Planners in EDGEBIC
Tune the schedule display once, then export it and import it everywhere. How EDGEBIC separates per-machine display settings from site-wide scheduling policy.
Showing Live Progress on Routing Diagram Nodes in EDGEBIC
Turn a routing diagram into a status board: how Node Display Fields put planned hours, actual hours, and dates under each node of a scheduled job.