The Picklist provides a list of people ranked in some order that is used by employees to obtain a general idea of where they stand for the next job opportunity, such as overtime, or special assignment jobs. Simply put, using the Picklist an employee at the top of the Picklist can expect to be called in for a job opportunity before a candidate at the bottom of the list.
The Picklist displays the most probable staffing order for the selected date. However, the actual staffing order for a particular vacancy may differ from the Picklist. Reason being, the Picklist returns a list of candidates based on probability, and evaluates personnel for the target day. As oppose to a list of candidates derived via theFill By Rules screen which evaluates a job vacancy with hard from and through targets.
As such, the Picklist is not Fill By Rules (FBR) which is located on the Roster and used by authorized users to staff vacancies. Unlike the Picklist, FBR evaluates and applies your business rule configuration to return qualified and available candidates on a specific date with precise job vacancy start and end times.
When reviewing the Picklist, it is very important to consider that personnel with specialties could surpass personnel on the list who do not hold a specific specialty. For example, suppose Charles wants to embark on a fishing trip, but doesn’t want to lose an overtime opportunity during his trip. Charles reviews the Picklist on his trip day, and he sees that he is at the bottom of the Picklist. Charles also has a Mechanic specialty. He notices that while many people are ahead of him on the Picklist, none have the Mechanic specialty, which means Charles is first in line if the next job opportunity requires a mechanic.
The Picklist uses the default list plan set by your organization. To change the default behavior authorized application administrators can set and run a different pick list at the region level of the organizational structure in Setup > Organizations > Institution > Agency > Region: List Plan.