Creating, running, and saving a location search
| Each location you plan to submit to the Optimizer must have a name, partition, and maximum capacity. Locations that don’t are rejected as errors during the run preparation process. Incorrect values in these fields may result in invalid placement results. Every location pre-assigned to events occurring during the date/time range you specify for an Optimizer run must have been included in your location search results for the run. |
1. In 25Live, click the Locations tab, then click the Advanced Location Search tab.
2. Click New Search.
3. Click Add Criteria and choose a search criterion from the pop-up menu.
4. Click the pencil icon and select the items for the selected search criterion. Click Done when finished.
5. If applicable to the criterion, choose the Include Any, Include All, or Do Not Include condition from the drop-down list. Include Any specifies that locations must match at least one of the selected items, Include All specifies that locations must match all the selected items, and Do Not Include specifies that locations must not match any of the selected items.
6. Repeat steps 3 - 5 to add additional search criteria as needed.
7. Choose AND or OR from the drop-down list to specify whether you want each location returned from the search to satisfy all your search criteria, or at least one. The former specifies an “AND” search, the latter an “OR” search.
In this example, we chose “Partitions” from the pop-up menu, chose Include Any, and selected the Business Administration Quad and North partitions, then chose “Categories,” chose Include Any, and selected Classroom - General Purpose. We then chose AND to specify that we want only locations that match all the criteria; that is, that they are in the Business Administration Quad partition or the North partition and that they are General Purpose classrooms.
8. Click Search!
The search results are displayed in the area below your search definition.
9. Make sure your location search has returned all the locations you want for this Optimizer run, including all those to which events have been pre-assigned. If there are missing locations, modify your search criteria and rerun the search.
10. When your search has returned all the locations you want for this run, click Save.
11. Enter a meaningful name for your search in the Search Name field.
12. Click Save to save the search.
