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New 21.3 Release

Alastri is pleased to announce the release of v21.3.

Tactical Scheduler - Improvements

Long Term Stockpiles

Problem: It was not possible to store materials that were not required right away, e.g. low grade material, in a location that you may or may not end up using.

Solution: Alastri Tactical Scheduler now has the ability to map a phase as a Long Term Stockpile. This has the benefit of allowing users to configure their setup to dump a certain grade of material at a location, that also has the option of reclaiming from, should the need arise. A simple, intuitive and straight forward workflow has been added to Alastri Tactical Scheduler which allows users to achieve this goal.

After configuring phases in Rapid Reserver and adding levels to a Long Term Stockpile table in Create Tables setup task, an option will show in the Destination Table field to map the Phase to the Long Term Stockpile table.

This will result in the phase being added to the project as both a fillable destination, as well as a reclaimable source.

This functionality then allows for treating the source as a reclaimable Phase, and the destination as a fillable phase. Destination Logic and Steps Logic entries can be added to handle the new movements to and from the Long Term Stockpile.

A new setup task, Long Term Stockpiles, has also been added. This setup task allows for the configuration of options directly related to the Long Term Stockpiles.

It is possible to set the parcel to be reclaimed from the Long Term Stockpile, as well as setting the Trigger Condition for when the Long Term Stockpile is ready for reclaiming.

Import/Export Priority Incentive Block Sequence

Problem: Priority Incentive block sequences could not be exported from one project and imported into another.

Solution: Priority Incentive block sequences can now be imported and exported between projects.

Phase Adjacencies Enhancements

Problem: It was not possible to apply dependencies across stages. This may be desirable for projects containing either nested stages, or where there is a stage above another stage (but not nested inside it.

Solution: Phase Adjacencies setup task now has new columns, “Above Stages” and “Inner Stages”.

“Inner Stages” should be used where if there are nested pits A and B, where A is inside B, you would set A as an inner stage for B. In order to mine a block in B, you would need to mine a block in A that is at the same RL.

“Above Stages” should be used where there is a stage and above it there is another stage, but it is not nested inside. So if A is set to be an above stage of B, in order to mine a block in B, you would need to mine a block in A on the bench above.

Further, in the Between Benches and Drilling steps, there is an extra column called “Adjacent Phase Expand Distance”. If you specify a number here, it will be used as the expand distance for between phases. If you hit the X, it will instead use the value in expand column.

Chrono Report - Calculated Expression Enhancements

Problem: When referencing table rows using Calculated Expressions in Chrono reports, if part of the name of the row being referenced changed for any reason (e.g. something had to be renamed at a certain level), this would break the Calculated Expressions, and all references to the row would need to be fixed.

Solution: It is now possible to use relative paths when using Calculated Expressions. This eliminates the need to update any rows being referenced when changes occur.

Agent Priorities

Problem: If two Agents select the same block and parcel, however, only one Agent is allowed on a solid, currently, the only way to prioritise which Agent takes precedence is via the Agents list itself.

Solution: It is now possible to order Agents by priority in the Agent Priorities section of the Calendar.

Stockpile Reclaim Priorities

Problem: If two stockpiles are available for reclaiming, there was no easy way to determine which stockpile should be reclaimed from first.

Solution: It is now possible to reclaim stockpiles by priority in the Stockpile Reclaim Priorities section of the Calendar.

Unblasted Blocks Setup Task

Problem: It was not possible to add a blast delay on a block that had no drill metres.

Solution: There is now a new setup task called Unblasted Blocks. This allows you to configure a blast delay for blocks that have zero drill metres.

For blocks listed on this setup task, there are three options available:

  • Immediately Available - The block is available at the beginning of the schedule

  • Use Default Delay - The block will use the Blasting Delay value from the Drilling setup task that’s applied to the associated bench

  • User input - Users can manually type a value to be applied in hours.

Drill and Loader Labels in Animation Viewport

It is now possible to hide/show labels for Drills and Loaders individually in the Animation Viewport.

Displaying Calendar Incentives/Constraints

It is now possible to configure how the category rows for some Incentives and Constraints are showing in the Calendar. Previously there was no control over how these were displayed, and they would always appear as grouped. Now, for the Attractiveness Incentive and Sources/Drill Sources/Bench Advance/Agent Assignments Constraints, it is possible to display these in a flat format.

Calendar Constraint Orientation

As well as being able to change calendar rows, for AgentAssignment Constraints it is also possible to change the orientation of what is displayed on the calendar.

On the Configure dialog, an Orientation property exists containing two options, BySourceThenAgent and ByAgentThenSource.

The constraint will show differently in the calendar depending on the option you have chosen.

There is also an option to toggle agent totals.

Export/Import Calendar Dashboard Templates

It is now possible to export and import calendar dashboard templates. This can be useful when copying dashboards from one project to another.

Goal Seek Scripting Enhancements

New options have been added to GoalSeekContext:

  • An option to always have Goal Seek turned on or off.

  • Improved error message when a non existent row is found when using GoalSeekerContext.Get/Set.

  • The ability to write to the calendar before it runs a period.

  • GoalSeekerContext.Period is now available for use.

Tactical Scheduler - Bug fixes

  • Calendar

    • Fixed an issue where the calendar was not refreshing correctly after scrolling to the bottom of long list, then selecting a different category.

Production Scheduler - Improvements

New Task Panel Views

The APS task panel has new options for viewing the all tasks. As well as the original way of viewing all Reserves in the gantt style layout, it is now possible to select Agents - Default with Delays and Agents - Default without Delays. The two new options display a list of Agents and each of their tasks across all periods with or without delays. There is also new scripting functionality which allows users to configure the tasks in a custom way.

Animation Dig Block Edges Visibility

Display properties in the Animation tab now show an option for Dig Block Edges visibility.

Undock Reports

It is now possible to undock a report. This can be useful when you want to have one or more reports visible while perusing other parts of the application.

Rapid Reserver

No specific changes for this release

Spatial Conformetrics

No specific changes for this release

Haul Infinity

No specific changes for this release

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