Even Distribution

[Bob Sneidar]

As I said, all else being equal, roughly same work required, localized territory, no chance of a job being rescheduled, etc. Use a Round Robin approach. Start with first worker, store as next worker, assign first job, update next worker. On to job 2 and so forth until no more jobs. Next day start with the next worker, rinse and repeat. 

Bob S


> On Apr 16, 2020, at 7:41 PM, Skip Kimpel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I have working on creating a loop that would divide the number of jobs by
> the number of users and then checking to see to see if it is evenly
> divisible but that is kind of where I am stuck.  Everything I have tried
> thus far has proven to be unsuccessful.
> 
> SKIP
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:36 PM Skip Kimpel <skiplondon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dev, I have already sorted the jobs out by proximity so I don't need to
>> worry about that.  Just need the distribution piece down.  I agree, you
>> have a good point an might prove valuable in the future.
>> 
>> SKIP
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:33 PM Skip Kimpel <skiplondon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Haha... Let me specify, I am looking to do this programmatically :)
>>> 
>>> SKIP
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:31 PM Dev via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Since you would probably have long trips and short trips, I would try
>>>> and allocate on an estimated time to complete basis so that all were busy
>>>> for about the same time.
>>>> 
>>>>> On 16-Apr-2020, at 8:23 PM, Skip Kimpel via use-livecode <
>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have 15 "jobs" that need to be assigned to 7 "drivers". How would you
>>>>> evenly distribute the jobs to the drivers?  In this case one of the
>>>> drivers
>>>>> would have 3 jobs while the others have two.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Obviously, the number of drivers and number of jobs would fluctuate.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This has been my mind twister for the night thus far :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> SKIP
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