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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Keyboard Shortcuts
Every keyboard shortcut in the schedule grid and Gantt - undo, insert, indent, fill down, nudge dates, and move between cells.
Building schedules
Activities, logic, calendars, constraints, WBS, and codes. 10 articles
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Updating & baselines
Progress, the data date, baselines, alerts, and schedule checks. 8 articles
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Record Progress and Update the Schedule
Run a schedule update - set the data date, enter percent complete and remaining duration, reschedule slipped work, and see the finish-date impact.
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Set a Baseline and Compare Progress
Capture a baseline, see baseline bars on the Gantt, compare current dates to the baseline, and send the owner a variance pack.
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Check Schedule Quality with DCMA 14-Point Validation
Run the DCMA 14-point assessment, find open ends, negative float, leads, and long lags, and fix many of them in one click.
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What-If Scenarios
Copy the live schedule into a what-if scenario, try resequencing or acceleration without risk, compare it to the parent, and promote it if it works.
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Delay Notices, Fragnets, and Time Impact Analysis
Log delay notices, insert a fragnet and preview its impact, build a TIA report, and draft an owner delay notice from the baseline compare.
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Compare Two Schedule Versions with Claim Digger
See every field that changed between a baseline and the current schedule - dates, durations, logic, costs, and codes - and export it to CSV.
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Earned Value, Costs, and Expenses
Load costs onto activities with resources, fixed costs, and expenses, then track PV, EV, AC, SPI, CPI, and EAC with an S-curve.
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Track Long-Lead Procurement and Risks
Tie vendor-promised delivery dates to the schedule so installs slip when deliveries do, and keep a risk register linked to activities.
Import, export & print
P6, MS Project, and Excel files in and out, plus Gantt PDFs. 5 articles
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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.
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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.
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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.
Lookaheads & field
Lookaheads, the pull board, weekly work plans, PPC, and mobile. 4 articles
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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.
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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.
Sharing & collaboration
Share links, comments, notifications, and working together live. 5 articles
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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.
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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.
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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.
Account, team & billing
Seats, roles, invitations, plans, invoices, SSO, and API tokens. 11 articles
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Single Sign-On (SSO)
Sign in with your company identity provider using OpenID Connect, and how SSO links to an existing schedule.construction account.
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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.
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Security, Privacy, and Your Data
How schedule.construction protects your schedules - tenant isolation, encrypted connections, backups, payments - and how to export or delete data.
Troubleshooting & FAQ
Fixes for common problems and answers to common questions. 3 articles
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Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers about schedule.construction - pricing, P6 and MS Project files, owner access, trials, offline use, and data security.
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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.
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Working Offline and Sync Conflicts
What works without a connection, how queued changes sync when you reconnect, and how to resolve a sync conflict.