This video is an overview of the Schedule Settings menu.
From the Schedule Plan view, click here to open the Schedule Settings menu.
The first tab is the general settings tab. Here is the project start date and the project finish date.These dates cannot be changed here, and are set when the schedule is created or imported.
The data date is used as the starting point to calculate the dates of all remaining activities and is represented by a blue vertical line on the Gantt chart.
By default, CPM Auto is turned on. This means that any updates to activity duration and sequence as actual progress is adjusted automatically.
This is particularly useful if schedulers plan to update multiple activities in bulk and then determine the CPM.
Click here to move to the progress tab.
The schedule mode drop down allows you to switch between planning and scheduling mode.
In planning mode, activities without predecessor logic or constraints do not snap back to the data date. This allows activities without predecessors to be scheduled throughout the project's timeline.
In scheduling mode, activities without predecessor logic or constraints are scheduled against the data date.
The out of sequence progress drop-down allows you to switch between retained logic, progress override, and actual dates.
With retained logic selected, relationships are maintained between the predecessor and successor of unworked portions of activities, and continued after the predecessor has finished.
With progress override selected, relationships between the predecessor and successor are disregarded, and unworked portions of activities continue before the predecessor has finished.
And with actual date selected, when actual dates in the future occur, the remaining duration of in progress activities are calculated after the conclusion of the future activity.
The auto progress switch determines if activities automatically start and progress when the data date has passed.
If this switch is on, actual units on assigned resources update per the duration percentage complete.
For example, if a ten day activity is progressed to fifty percent duration, percent complete, then a resource assigned to the activity with one hundred units planned would update to fifty actual units.
The relationship lag mode dictates whether a predecessor or successor calendar will be used to determine the lag of a relationship when establishing finish and start dates in CPM.
Click here to move to the float tab.
Here, you can identify critical activities by either their total float or the longest path.
If the total float value is less than or equal to the defined number of hours, here, then it is an indication that an activity is critical.
The longest path is the path through a project network from start to finish, where the total duration is longer than any other path.
If needed, the total float can be configured manually here.
Well, that's an overview of the Schedule Settings menu in InEight Schedule. Thanks for watching.
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