forbidStart

OPL constraint (scheduling) to limit the start of an interval variable.

context	type
Model files (.mod)	boolean

Syntax

forbidStart(a, F);

Where:

dvar interval a;
stepFunction F;

Description

This constraint is used to indicate that a given interval variable cannot start at a particular date. Let a denote a fixed interval and F an integer stepwise function. The constraint forbidStart(a, F), states that whenever the interval is present, it cannot start at a value t where F(t) = 0.

Note: This constraint cannot be used in a meta-constraint.

Example

The following constraint will prevent interval variable a to start in any interval [7i, 7i + 5) for i in [0, 51]:

stepFunction F = stepwise(i in 0..51, p in 0..1) {
    100*p -> (7*i)+(5*p) ; 0 };
dvar interval a size 14;
constraints {
   forbidStart(a, F);
};