Originally Posted by
Roadkill
PBS Notepad 12-02.
I also talked to PBS on how vacation slide might change with top down denial, and denying now left to right vs. right to left...
Vacation slide STILL works as per this notepad:
if you have vacation 10-16th, and you want it slid 3 days later, if not that then 2 days at least, you put
set condition vacation slide 2-3
and it will still try for 3 days, then 2. It's a great tool on coverage months to get the holidays off, a better chance than just "prefer off". Be sure you try a slide to fully cover Xmas (assuming that's your goal), and then try for 24th off, and then try for 16-23rd etc. End result is you MAY get a coverage trip that is maybe the 26th and on, vs 24th start, due to the slide.
Good luck!
There are a couple of things to think about
:
1. Vacation slide happens during the normal line building process. Coverage happens before the normal line building process. PBS cannot slide your vacation into a coverage pairings. Thus, vacation slide has no effect on coverage.
2. It is important to realize that the change is from bottom up denial to top down inclusion. With prefer off, the change is from right to left denial to left to right inclusion.
Even though the right to left has changed it has also been changed from denial to inclusion. In a way very little has changed. The important thing is the top is more important than bottom and in the case of Prefer Off, left is more important to right.
The significant difference between the two is that now PBS is able to consider a lower preference even if it was unable to honor a higher preference. Previously, PBS would have to deny all of he lower Prefer Off, Set Condition, and Avoid preferences in order to remove a higher preference that was the bottle neck. Likewise, PBS will consider a right date even if it was unable to honor a date to the left.