Overview
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.
You can easily organize, assign, and distribute work by importing tasks and leveraging the Calendar and Gantt view:
Keep reading for all of the specifics!
Set 'Working days' under the Project Settings
Project Admins can set 'Working Days' under the Project Settings tab. This means that any non-working days will be excluded from the Calendar, Gantt Chart, and Manpower calculations.
Create Tasks, and pre-plan activities, with the Task Importer
Add Tasks one-by-one or create multiple Tasks at once with Fieldwire's Task Importer to easily schedule out activities on your Project. (More info here: Introduction to the 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 (see the section titled "Custom Task Attributes" for more information: Introduction to Tasks).
Use the Calendar & Gantt view to visualize and change your schedule
The Calendar and Gantt views are an interactive way to view the overall progress of your Project. After you've imported your Task Schedule, you can view, sort, and update these Tasks in 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, you can speedily change the start and end dates of tasks, and the updates will 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 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: