Overview & background
Scheduling and planning are critical to ensure that your construction project is completed on time and within budget. Fieldwire’s construction scheduling software focuses on the day-to-day execution of the project plan, bringing both speed and structure to the entire team. Easily organize, assign, and distribute work by importing tasks and using the Calendar and Gantt view:
Set 'Working days' under the Project Settings
Project Admins can set 'Working Days' under the Project Settings tab - any non-working days will be excluded from the Calendar, Gantt Chart, and within any Manpower calculations.
Create Tasks, and pre-plan activities, through the Task Importer
Add Tasks one by one or easily schedule out activities on your Project by creating multiple Tasks at once with Fieldwire's Task Importer.
- Click on '+Import tasks' in the Tasks tab.
- Copy & paste each line item from your 3-week look ahead into the Task importer.
- Add priorities, categories, due dates, and an assignee to ensure that each activity will be tracked and completed on time.
Use the Calendar & Gantt view to visualize and change your schedule
The Calendar and Gantt views are a great, interactive way to see the overall progress of your Project. After you've imported your Task Schedule, you can view, sort, and update these Tasks in not only the default Kanban view, the Calendar view, and the Gantt view.
Let's say you want to check on your framing activities, so you can start coordinating with your MEP trades on when they will begin their rough-ins:
- Filter tasks by the task attributes (i.e. 'Framing' in Building 1) to get a focused overview on your framing schedule.
- Move tasks around and extend dates if there have been any changes to the schedule by hovering over the task and dragging it to the desired dates.
- 'Shift Dates' forward or backward by selecting tasks, click 'Actions', and then 'Shift Dates'.
In those weekly schedule meetings, quickly and easily change the start and end dates of tasks and the updates sync to everyone on the project.
- Move tasks around and extend dates if there has been any changes to the schedule by hovering over the task and dragging to the desired dates.
- Drag & drop any tasks that still need to be scheduled from the right side to quickly add start and end dates.
- Batch edit multiple tasks at once by selecting the tasks and clicking 'Actions' and then 'Batch edit'.
- 'Shift Dates' forward or backward by selecting tasks, click 'Actions', and then 'Shift Dates'.
With Start and End dates tied to the task, the team in the field can look at their tasks on a phone or tablet and know when they need to start and complete work. Sort the tasks on the mobile view by the Due Date:
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