Vehicle Routing Problem - Fixed Time

[jacoroux]

We are scheduling multiple orders on a route. We need to fix some specific orders in place to prevent them from being moved to different time slots? These Items must be on the Route.

[ChrisDonohue__GISP]

Can you provide some more details to help troubleshoot this?  Which software are you using for the routing?  Are you using the Network Analyst Extension?  Which Version?  Or a routing Service? 

If it is Network Analyst, you might be able to achieve what you want by setting a TimeWindow - one of the Order properties:

An order can have one or two time windows, which indicate when a vehicle is allowed to visit the order. For example, a wholesale foods delivery truck is only permitted to arrive at a restaurant between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. or between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. because arriving at any other time would disrupt the restaurant's business.

http://help.arcgis.com/EN/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00470000004v000000

TimeWindowStart1

The beginning time of the first time window for the network location. This field can contain a null value; a null value indicates no beginning time. (See the note below this list of properties for more information.)

Chris Donohue, GISP

[GCSADMIN]

Good Day Chris,

I am using the SolveVehicleRoutingProblem Service which is part of the ArcGIS REST API.

I need to be able to fix specific waypoints in place and have the service fill the gaps in between.

Thanks,