Building schedules

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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