The Schedule interface

Linarc features a powerful and intuitive scheduler that enables you to easily set up and manage the overall project schedule and track the progress of tasks.  

General Contractor -  The 'Master Schedule' lets general contractors create a comprehensive WBS-based schedule for their projects. You can add all schedule items like phases, deliverables, work packages, tasks, and activities as a hierarchical structure and in the order of execution. You can also create a schedule by generating a WBS tree structure and importing it to the outline structure. Alternatively, you can create a schedule using popular scheduler software like Oracle Primavera or MS Project and import it to a project. 

The GC can assign the deliverables, work items, and tasks to themselves or suitable subcontractors, depending on the nature of the work.

Subcontractor - The 'Contractor Schedule' lets subcontractors/trade contractors/specialty contractors receive the work items assigned by the general contractor, create estimates, add child tasks to the work items, push tasks to the foremen, track progress, and more. 

Each task entry contains a planned start date, the number of days, the labor required to complete it, its dependency on the predecessor tasks, planned production quantity, assignee, and more. 

• Critical Path - The scheduler has the ability to calculate the critical path in your schedule dynamically. The critical path feature helps you identify the essential tasks that are compulsory to commence and complete at the planned start and end dates in order to ensure the timely completion of the entire project.
• Task-specific conversation - The scheduler interface lets you have context-specific conversations with team members and other contractors involved in any task item. You can initiate a chat for a task, add people to talk with and exchange your conversation. This helps you to clarify any doubts, queries, and questions arising on any task, at any time, to give instructions to others involved in a task, and more. 

Access the 'Master Schedule'/ 'Contractor Schedule' interface

• Open the project management console
• Click 'Schedule' on the top

The options on the left take you to different schedule screens and perform various tasks. The availability of the options is dependent on your role in the project. The following list shows all available options: 

	-	Dashboard - Shows an at-a-glance view of various metrics and statistics on the project progress and performance and more as charts and graphs. It also provides reminders and alerts on upcoming events, milestones, checkpoints, scheduled inspections, and more. See The Schedule Dashboard for more details.
	-	WBS - Applies only to schedules created with custom WBS codes - View and manage the WBS tree structure of the schedule, containing the phases, stages, deliverables, work packages, etc., in hierarchical order. You can add new items and edit existing items. The changes made through this interface are synched with the master/contractor schedule. See Custom WBS code settings for more details.
	-	Master Schedule - General Contractor - Create and manage the master schedule of the project. Assign jobs to subs, review and approve contractor schedules, get task progress updates, create baselines, view the critical path, and more. See General Contractor and Schedule Views for more details. Schedule - Subcontractor - Accept jobs assigned by the general contractor. Add sub-tasks, activities etc., to break down the the jobs, delivarbles, and work items assigned by the GC and push jobs to the field, get task progress from the field, report progress to GC and more. See subcontractor - create and manage contractor schedule and Schedule Views for more details. The schedule interface is available in List View, Gantt View, and List + Gantt View.
	-	Gantt - Shows the schedule as the Gantt chart. You can edit the timelines of tasks, view and update tasks' progress, and more from the Gantt view. See Gantt View for more details.
	-	Baselines - Available only to the GC. View and compare schedule baselines created for schedule revisions at different points in time. This helps analyze the project performance. See view and compare baselines for more details.
	-	Calendar - Shows the schedule in calendar view. See Calendar for more details.
	-	Contractor View - Available only to the general contractor. Shows the individual contractor schedule of each subcontractor involved in the project. See Contractor Schedules for more details.

See the following sections for more details on creating and managing schedules:

• Create a master schedule
  • Standard WBS code settings
  • Custom WBS code settings
• Create a contractor schedule
• Add schedule items
• Add subtasks
• Add subtasks to WBS tree
• Add tasks from estimates
• Add planned quantities to tasks
• Add a checkpoint
• Add a milestone
• Add dependencies
• Assign subcontractors
• Assign team members
• Add a change order to the schedule
• View task details
• Remove a task
• Publish a task
• Update task progress
• View Critical Path
• Schedule Views
• Manage Schedule Baselines
• Chat and collaborate on scheduled tasks