planVisits: avoid field worker location

[Prakash]

Hi,

I would like to ask you about <fieldworker> of planVisits service of xCluster2. This is a required field, but I don’t want to start/end a day from/to employee’s home location, each day could start from any account’s location.
Is it possible by using any attribute, I want field worker’s location free calculation?

Regards,
Prakash

[Bernd Welter]

Hello Prakash,

As you see from the API: The generic position of the story starts at a required (x,y) - so the user has to decice which location to pick.

What you could evaluate is the following trick (requires GUROBI):

Look at the parameter “HOTELS”. These are potential positions where the ADM could spend “inner”nights (not start and end of the weeks).
Now here’s the trick – though this is not 100% what you want:
If you send the positions of the customers as “hotels” and activate the consideration of OvernightStayOptions! This enables us to create tours such as

• Start at home address on monday
• visit some customers on monday
• check in at optimal hotel (customer position) on monday evening - away from home
• perform visits on tuesday
• check in at another optimal hotel (customer position) on tuesday evening - away from home..
• and so on
• visit some customers on friday
• get back home on friday evening

Best regards,
Bernd

PS: I wanted to add a screenshot here but unfortunately my own GUROBI license is expired at the moment