Optimizer Default Processing Settings
  
Optimizer Default Processing Settings
The Optimizer Default Settings page
Description of page
The View/Edit Schedule25 Optimizer Default Settings page of the 25Live Administration Utility is used to define default settings used to control Optimizer processing, such as the minimum percentage of seats in a location that must be filled by any Optimizer placement and how the Optimizer should treat the enrollments of events in binding space assignment relationship groups. The page lists those settings that influence the Prepare step of a run and those settings that influence the Optimization step of a run.
Note: These settings are used as defaults for any Optimizer run. When you set up a run, you have the option of defining more processing settings and/or modifying these settings for that run only.
Prepare step settings
You can define any of these default Prepare step processing settings:
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Earliest Start Time
The earliest valid event start time.
Latest Finish Time
The latest valid event finish time.
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Weeks in Term
The maximum span of weeks represented by the events in any Optimizer run.
Optimization step settings
You can define any of these default Optimization step processing settings:
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Enrollment Adjuster
The percentage by which the Optimizer should adjust event enrollments prior to initiating the placement process. The value is used internally by the Optimizer; it doesn’t change the actual enrollment of events.
Default Enrollment
The default enrollment that should be used in Optimizer processing for events that don’t yet have a defined enrollment or have an enrollment of 0 (zero).
Minimum Fill Ratio
The minimum percentage of seats in a location that must be filled by any Optimizer placement. Individual location fill ratios, if specified, override this value (see Location information used by the Optimizer).
Extra Finish Minutes
The number of minutes the Optimizer should add internally to the finish time of each event when making placements. You can use this automatic “pad” time to provide enough time between events placed in the same location, if pad time is not already built into the start and finish times of your events.
Sum Cross-listed Enrollments
How the Optimizer treats enrollments for events in binding space assignment groups.
• If checked, the Optimizer adds the enrollments of the events that overlap the date/time of other events in the group before initiating its placement process, and only selects a location large enough to hold the combined enrollments of those events.
• If not checked, the Optimizer selects a location large enough to accommodate the enrollment of the largest (highest head count) event of the group.