Rehearsal Room Hourly Block Divider Tool

Partition actual room booking into whole caller work blocks with reset gaps, retain tail rather than shorten final block; no universal rehearsal contract or break rule.

Description

Booking blocks include work periods separated by reset gaps.

Booking blocks include work periods separated by reset gaps. A leftover tail should not silently become a shorter final block.^[1]

Enter nonnegative ordered booking minutes, positive work duration and nonnegative reset. Return whole work intervals and end-minus-last-work-end tail; reject more than 128 blocks.

When to use Rehearsal Room Hourly Block Divider Tool

Use Rehearsal Room Hourly Block Divider Tool when you need to evaluate the supplied records under the calculation and evidence rules below. The tail includes time after the last block, including any reset allowance. No contract or break rule is embedded.

Prepare the actual venue, production, inventory or financial records requested. Confirm units and supply applicable local limits or verified catalog values.

How to use Rehearsal Room Hourly Block Divider Tool and understand its results

Prepare the actual venue, production, inventory or financial records requested. Confirm units and supply applicable local limits or verified catalog values.
Enter roomStartMinute, roomEndMinute, callerBlockWorkMinutes, callerBlockResetMinutes using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read plannedWorkIntervalsMinutes, unallocatedTailMinutes. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
roomStartMinute	Room start minute	number	Required
roomEndMinute	Room end minute	number	Required
callerBlockWorkMinutes	Caller block work minutes	number	Required
callerBlockResetMinutes	Caller block reset minutes	number	Required

Enter nonnegative ordered booking minutes, positive work duration and nonnegative reset. Return whole work intervals and end-minus-last-work-end tail; reject more than 128 blocks.

repeat [start,start+work] while end≤bookingEnd; nextStart+=work+reset

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
plannedWorkIntervalsMinutes	Planned work intervals minutes	list of list of number
unallocatedTailMinutes	Unallocated tail minutes	number

json

{
  "input": {
    "roomStartMinute": 0,
    "roomEndMinute": 130,
    "callerBlockWorkMinutes": 50,
    "callerBlockResetMinutes": 10
  },
  "output": {
    "plannedWorkIntervalsMinutes": [
      [
        0,
        50
      ],
      [
        60,
        110
      ]
    ],
    "unallocatedTailMinutes": 20
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

The tail includes time after the last block, including any reset allowance. No contract or break rule is embedded.

Numeric inputs, where present, must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Equity Hour Break Rehearsal Rule Lookup: A rehearsal break log can be screened against an independently chosen contract policy. Short breaks do not reset the modeled clock. For a complementary task, use Cue To Cue Runtime Pages Per Hour Estimator: Cue-to-cue throughput uses active rehearsal time separately from administrative overhead. It differs from scripted performance runtime.

References

Rehearsal Room Hourly Block Divider Tool — tool.io

Similar or alternative tools

Equity Hour Break Rehearsal Rule Lookup
A rehearsal break log can be screened against an independently chosen contract policy. Short breaks do not reset the modeled clock.
Cue To Cue Runtime Pages Per Hour Estimator
Cue-to-cue throughput uses active rehearsal time separately from administrative overhead. It differs from scripted performance runtime.