SIP General Navigation
Short Interval Planning View
When a schedule is ready for production, schedulers can move to the Short Interval Planning (SIP) view to begin planning out the day-to-day tasks involved with completing scheduled activities. This type of planning can be done in intervals of 17, 25, and 50 days based on a selected interval.
To open the Short Interval Planning view, in the project navigation menu click Short Interval Planning.
In the SIP view there are three primary sections:
| 1 | Toolbar | Contains view adjustment settings such as, filtering, grouping, annotations, and date range. |
| 2 | Activities | Work package and activity structure are brought in from the Plan view. Tasks are further broken out in the SIP view. |
| 3 | Calendar | Shows a segment, or interval, of the schedule based on settings in the toolbar. |
Toolbar – Icons, Functions, Settings
Group By
The Group by drop-down menu lets you see activities grouped together based on the option selected. This functionality provides flexibility to schedulers and execution planners in how they want to organize and assess tasks, resource utilization, and activity progress. You can also group activities and task by codes when knowledge tags are used on the project.
SIP Functions
| Description | Function |
|---|---|
| View options |
Select metrics, view row numbers, annotations, color coding for the view, and resource histogram. |
| Detail level | Select the level of detail shown in the Activities section. |
| Filter | Opens the filter function to set parameters for the activities and tasks that show in the view. |
| Export | Export the current view to an Excel spreadsheet. |
| Zoom level | Sets the date range interval shown in the calendar. |
| Search | Search and find a specific task or step. |
The SIP resource histogram lets you perform resource management at a short-term plan level that gives you another level of granularity when analyzing resources. The SIP resource histogram shows the assigned SIP resources for the project with functionality like the Plan view resource histogram. In the SIP view, click the View options icon, and then select Resource histogram.
You can choose to view a single resource or select Stacked Histogram to show all SIP resources assigned to the specific date. You can also resize the grid and histogram areas to show more or less of the date time line.
You can add row columns to the SIP schedule by selecting the Row Numbers toggle.
Activities – Steps, Icons, Functions
In the Activities section, Schedule activities from the CPM are shown. Each of these activities can be broken into steps or tasks for more detail when planning field execution.
Planning packages and activities are shown in a hierarchy. Planning packages group activities the same way as in the CPM schedule. Each activity line shows a planned start date, end date, activity ID, and the activity description.
When steps are defined, they show as a subordinate of the activity. An overview of the step details are noted that includes, start date, end date, duration, planner, and quantity.
To create a new step, click the Add icon. A step is created to input task details.
Hover over the step to show the available Action icons.
- Zoom to start moves the Gantt chart to one day prior to the step start date.
- Add comment opens a text box where you can type text and save a comment.
- Add SIP resource opens a SIP resource window that lets a planner assign an existing SIP resource or create a new SIP resource that can have units assigned to it.
- Remove step that when selected, deletes the step.
Calendar – Views, icons, functions
The Calendar date range is adjusted in the header of the SIP view by selecting the Zoom level icon. In the calendar, there are two primary indicators, the blue and red CPM schedule activity bars, and the colored step bars.
The blue and red CPM schedule activity bars represent working days and non-working days. The thicker segments indicate working days in the activity’s calendar and thinner segments are non-working days.
The colored step bars are the days that step is being worked. As a Planner you have the ability to click and drag the bars along the timeline to adjust the start date and end date of the step, and add or delete days for the step.
Weather Settings
InEight Schedule has built in functionality to pull in weather data when a project location has been set up in Project Settings > Project configuration. When this function is setup, the weather shows in the date column header for the current day and a forecast for the next seven days.
You can click the weather icon to open the selected day’s weather forecast. This data is powered by Open Weather.