Working with the schedule in the VPS
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      View filters

      The VPS offers two kinds of filters, the difference between them lying in the time of application

      View filters

      View filters are applied to data already having been loaded into the VPS (whereas data filters work as Dynamics 365 BC filter on reading the data (either when the VPS ist started or on reloading)). Accordingly, only the capacity utilization by the visible activities are shown in the histograms. To work with the filters, the "Actions" menu offers three according options:

      • Choose View Filter
      • Enable View Filter
      • Disable View Filter

      VPS_View_Filter_Items

      Create and edit filters

      First, you have to open the according dialog by clicking "Choose View Filter" from the "View Filter" item:

      VPS-View-filter-menu-11-2019

      The short video below shows how to proceed once you have opened the dialog.

      VPS_Edit_View_Filter

      If you want to make sure that the last used view filter will be applied when you start the VPS, tick the according option in the "Setup" dialog:

      VPS-data-filter-at-start-new