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51 step-by-step guides to schedule.construction: importing P6 and MS Project files, building and updating CPM schedules, lookaheads, pull planning, share links, seats, and billing.

Getting started

Sign up, take the sandbox tour, and build a first schedule. 5 articles

  • Sign Up and Start Your 14-Day Free Trial

    Create a schedule.construction account, confirm your email, and use the 14-day trial with full access. No charge before the trial ends.

    2 min read

  • Explore the Read-Only Sandbox

    Get instant, read-only access to a demo construction schedule to see the Gantt, lookaheads, pull board, and work plans before you start a trial.

    2 min read

  • Build Your First Schedule

    Create a project, set the start date, add activities, link them, and read the critical path - a 15-minute walkthrough of a first CPM schedule.

    3 min read

  • Tour of the Schedule Toolbar and Views

    Where every command lives - the toolbar menus, the project views, and the Commands & help search that finds any action by name.

    2 min read

  • Keyboard Shortcuts

    Every keyboard shortcut in the schedule grid and Gantt - undo, insert, indent, fill down, nudge dates, and move between cells.

    1 min read

Building schedules

Activities, logic, calendars, constraints, WBS, and codes. 10 articles

  • Add, Edit, and Delete Activities

    Add activities, edit durations and dates in the grid or by dragging bars, make milestones, split, duplicate, reorder, and delete.

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  • Paste Activities from Excel

    Copy rows from Excel or Google Sheets and paste them into the schedule grid, with names, durations, start dates, WBS codes, and predecessors.

    1 min read

  • Link Activities: FS, SS, FF, SF and Lag

    Four ways to create dependencies - Draw link, bar connectors, the Link activities dialog, and the Preds column - plus relationship types, lag, and leads.

    2 min read

  • Set Date Constraints

    The eight constraint types - ASAP, ALAP, SNET, SNLT, FNET, FNLT, MSO, MFO - how to set them, and when they cause negative float.

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  • Work Calendars, Holidays, and Weather Days

    Set workdays, hours, holidays, and make-up days; give activities their own calendar; and turn forecast rain and wind into weather days.

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  • WBS, Activity Codes, EPS, and Templates

    Organize a schedule with a WBS hierarchy and activity codes, place projects in EPS and OBS trees, and save a schedule as a reusable template.

    2 min read

  • Create Recurring Activities

    Add a series of repeating activities - weekly inspections, monthly pay apps, daily crane checks - in one step, and regenerate or delete the series later.

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  • Subprojects, Master Schedules, and Programs

    Break a big job into subprojects under a master schedule, link activities across projects, and roll multiple projects up into a program dashboard.

    2 min read

  • Resources, Histograms, and Resource Leveling

    Add crews and equipment, assign them to activities, see over-allocation on the histogram, and level resources with preview before you apply.

    2 min read

  • Saved Layouts, Filters, and Grouping

    Filter to the critical path or by float, group the Gantt, set bar labels and zoom, and save the whole setup as a layout to share with your team.

    2 min read

Updating & baselines

Progress, the data date, baselines, alerts, and schedule checks. 8 articles

Import, export & print

P6, MS Project, and Excel files in and out, plus Gantt PDFs. 5 articles

  • Import a Primavera P6 .xer File

    Export an XER from Primavera P6, import it into schedule.construction, and read the import trust report to see what was dropped or remapped.

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  • Import from Microsoft Project

    Save a Microsoft Project .mpp schedule as XML (MSPDI), import it into schedule.construction, and export back to Project when you need to.

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  • Import a Schedule from Excel or CSV

    Lay out an Excel workbook or CSV with tasks, dependencies, and calendars so it imports cleanly as a CPM schedule.

    2 min read

  • Export Your Schedule

    Export to Excel, Primavera P6 XER or PMXML, Microsoft Project XML, CSV, SVG, PDF, or an .ics calendar - and which format to send to whom.

    2 min read

  • Print a Gantt Chart to PDF

    Print a multi-page or fit-to-page Gantt PDF on letter, tabloid, or ANSI D - choose columns, date range, baseline bars, and headers, and save templates.

    2 min read

Lookaheads & field

Lookaheads, the pull board, weekly work plans, PPC, and mobile. 4 articles

  • Three-Week Lookaheads

    See the next three weeks of critical, near-critical, and in-progress work from the live schedule, print it, and email it to the team every week.

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  • Run a Pull Planning Board

    Use the digital pull board - sticky notes by day and trade, linked to schedule activities - and promise commitments into the weekly work plan.

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  • Weekly Work Plans and Percent Plan Complete (PPC)

    Commit to activities for the week, mark them done, track PPC, and turn missed promises into schedule updates.

    2 min read

  • Update Progress from the Field on Your Phone

    Use the Field view on a phone to mark activities started or finished, set percent complete, post blockers, and keep working offline.

    2 min read

Sharing & collaboration

Share links, comments, notifications, and working together live. 5 articles

  • Share a Read-Only Schedule Link

    Send owners, CMs, and subcontractors a live, read-only schedule link with no login, where they can view the Gantt and lookahead and print PDFs.

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  • Comment on Activities and @Mention Teammates

    Discuss an activity right on the schedule, @mention teammates to notify them, flag blockers, and turn comments into risks or weekly commitments.

    2 min read

  • Notifications and Email Digests

    Choose which schedule changes, comments, slip alerts, and weekly digests reach you in the app and by email.

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  • Let Subcontractors Update Their Own Activities

    Give superintendents and subcontractor foremen Trade Updater access so they report percent complete and actual dates on only their activities.

    2 min read

  • Working Together in Real Time

    See who else is in a schedule, what they're editing, and what to do when someone else's change or a version conflict appears.

    1 min read

Account, team & billing

Seats, roles, invitations, plans, invoices, SSO, and API tokens. 11 articles

  • Plans, Pricing, and Seat Types

    How pricing works - a $50 company base plus $10 per project manager seat and $5 per superintendent seat. View-only seats are free.

    2 min read

  • Roles and Permissions

    What Owners, Editors, Trade Updaters, and Viewers can do in schedule.construction, and which roles take a paid seat.

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  • Invite and Manage Team Members

    Invite people to your organization one at a time or in bulk, resend or revoke invitations, and disable or remove members.

    2 min read

  • Subscribe, Change Seats, and Manage Billing

    How an Owner subscribes, adds or removes seats, updates the payment method, downloads invoices, adds a tax ID, or cancels.

    2 min read

  • What Happens When a Trial Ends or a Payment Fails

    Read-only mode explained - what still works, the emails Owners receive, the 7-day grace period for failed payments, and how to restore editing.

    2 min read

  • Reset or Change Your Password

    Reset a forgotten password, change it while signed in, and fix "Invalid email or password" and sign-in lockout messages.

    2 min read

  • Add Your Company Logo and Brand Colors

    Upload your logo and set organization theme colors so they appear in the app header, on shared schedules, and on exported PDFs.

    2 min read

  • API Tokens and the Customer API

    Create API tokens to read schedules and post progress from your own systems, with the endpoints, scopes, and error codes you need.

    2 min read

  • Single Sign-On (SSO)

    Sign in with your company identity provider using OpenID Connect, and how SSO links to an existing schedule.construction account.

    1 min read

  • Referral Program

    Refer construction companies to schedule.construction and earn 20% of what they pay in their first 12 months. How to apply and how payouts work.

    1 min read

  • Security, Privacy, and Your Data

    How schedule.construction protects your schedules - tenant isolation, encrypted connections, backups, payments - and how to export or delete data.

    2 min read

Troubleshooting & FAQ

Fixes for common problems and answers to common questions. 3 articles

  • Frequently Asked Questions

    Quick answers about schedule.construction - pricing, P6 and MS Project files, owner access, trials, offline use, and data security.

    3 min read

  • Import Troubleshooting

    Fixes for schedule imports that fail or come in wrong - .mpp files, circular logic, rate limits, blocked imports, and dates that differ from P6 or Project.

    2 min read

  • Working Offline and Sync Conflicts

    What works without a connection, how queued changes sync when you reconnect, and how to resolve a sync conflict.

    2 min read