Hello Vladimir,
For some time I have seen you added a new field called Priority Relative.
From what I have read in the manual Spider considers priorities as follows:
a). Phase priority is the highest priority and if a phase has a priority then the activitiy priorities in the phase will be ignored;
b). Activity priority will be respected in the Standard and Advance scheduling but it may be ignored in the Optimization and Optimization+ algorithms (if the resulting schedule is shorter).
Also from the manual (Russian manual) Priority Relative is am absolute priority that will be respected using any algorithm (from what I could understand). Here are my questions:
01. Is Priority Relative an absolute priority, no matter the algorithm?
02. Also how does Relative Priority behave if you compare it to Priority (see points 01. and 02.)?
03. Does the user have to check the Apply activity priorities and/or Phase priorities?
04. What happens if there is a conflict between Priority and Priority Relative?
05. How does Relative Priority enforce strick links? (Sometimes algorithms may break strict links - even Standard. Not very desirable; I understand that Spider searches for the shortes schedule, but there are scenarios when the strict link should be always enforced since it represents a technological dependecy; but this is another topic.)
Could you please explain in more detail how Priority Relative is different from Priority?
Best regards,
Bogdan