new
improved
Timefold Platform
Employee Shift Scheduling
Field Service Routing
Webhook improvements, FSR technician costs optimization, and more (v0.33.0)
This new version of the Timefold Platform comes with updates to these Timefold Models:
Employee Shift Scheduling (v1 | Stable)
- Day Light Saving for Employees: We fixed a bug where DLS was not properly applied for employees. For more information, please see: Employee Time Zones.
- Single-day pattern rules updates: We have added a custom move to facilitate matching of PREFERRED patterns. The REQUIRED single-day patterns are now deprecated and will be removed in a future version in favour of PREFERRED patterns with a high weight. More information in “New & Noteworthy”.
- Updated model information page to more clearly reflect its features and link to relevant documentation.
- We have added a guide explaining how to do resource-limited planning.
Field Service Routing (v1 | Stable)
- Added technician costs optimization: Every vehicle shift can specify a Vehicle Shift Cost that will be used in the optimization by the minimize shift cost constraint. Please see the Technician Costs guide for details. We have added a new KPI representing the total cost of the solution and a new demo dataset that showcases the feature.
- Recommendation calls now validate the input dataset: Similarly to the model run, the recommendation calls now validate the input dataset.
- Visualization UI improvements: We have improved the Visualization UI, with better formatting of dates and coordinates as well as improvements to the color scheme.
- Updated model information page to more clearly reflect its features and link to relevant documentation.
This new version of the Timefold Platform also comes with the following improvements:
- Webhook filtering options: It’s now possible to define per webhook for which run statuses, names or tags they should trigger. You can use tags to e.g. segment your model runs by region, and then use this feature to trigger different workflows per region. More information about Webhooks.
- Added metadata from the run & model in webhook payload: The payload of a webhook will now contain extra metadata from the run & model. More information about Webhooks.
- Score analysis with justifications is no longer limited to 100 per constraint: Our score analysis API-endpoint now supports downloading the complete set of justifications. We will bring back this functionality to the UI again in a next release.
- Maps improvements: We have improved the maps service on the platform to better handle locations outside of the map’s region and locations on islands.
Please let us know if you have feedback.