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Scheduling & staffing · Schedule

Schedule overview

A Gantt planner for project phases, submissions, reviews and milestones, with working-day math and holidays built in.

Schedule is a Gantt planner for architecture projects. You lay out phases, submissions, agency reviews and milestones, link them so dates move together, and count time in working days with weekends and holidays skipped.

The same schedule shows as a Gantt chart, a table or a month calendar. You can share it by link, publish its milestones to Outlook or Google Calendar, and export it as a PDF, a picture or a spreadsheet.

The main screen #

From top to bottom:

  • The top bar. Undo and Redo, the project the schedule is in, and the save status.
  • The scheme bar. The Project ▾ menu, the Schemes ▾ menu, and the schedule's name (click it to rename). Next come the Project dates (the project window) and the Business days switch. The Gantt, Table and Calendar tabs sit on the right.
  • The toolbar. Display switches: Headers, Holidays (with its ▾ holiday list), ◆ Moments, Critical path (with its settings gear) and Prefixes ▾. In the Gantt you also get Month, Week and Day and Today. The keyboard button lists the shortcuts. On the right are Import / Export ▾ and Share / Snapshots.
  • The filter bar. Starts with Show: look-ahead windows, starred, hidden, sub-milestones, a group picker, Hide done and tag filters. Collapse groups and Collapse steps are at its right end.
  • The view. The Gantt, the table or the calendar.
  • The side panel. Opens on the right when you select a task, several tasks or a group header.
  • The bottom bar. −, a percentage and + zoom the whole view in or out. The menus stay full size.

See Views and filters for the toolbar and filter bar.

Start a new schedule #

From a project page #

  1. Open the project.
  2. Click + New, then under Schedule pick Blank or a template: Design Services, Construction or Example — Design & Permitting.

The schedule opens already saved in that project. See Projects and schemes.

From inside Schedule #

Schedule opens on its home screen. Under Start fresh, pick + Blank schedule or a template:

  • Design Services: programming, SD, DD, CD, permit and bid, then CA.
  • Construction: a general contractor's sequence, from mobilization through closeout.
  • Example — Design & Permitting: a small demo project.

Templates start today and use working days. Their durations are starting points to edit.

You can also start one from the Schemes ▾ menu: under Start a new scheme, click + Blank or a template. A new scheme stays in this browser until you push it into a project from the Project ▾ menu.

Open existing work #

  • Home screen. Your schemes lists the schedules in this browser, in your projects, and files you opened before. Click one to open it. ⌂ Schedule home in the Schemes ▾ menu brings you back here.
  • Schemes ▾. Lists the schemes open in this browser, with where each one lives: Project, This browser, Local only or File. Click one to switch to it.
  • Project ▾. Lists the schedules in your projects, grouped by project.
  • A file. Click Open a file from this computer… and pick a .schedule.json file. See Import and export.

Who can see a schedule #

A schedule saved in a project is visible to everyone on that project. Editors can change it. Viewers can look, filter and export pictures, but nothing they do saves. See People and roles.

A schedule that isn't in a project lives only in this browser, or in a file on your computer. See Local only.

Several people can edit the same schedule at once. Their dots show on the tasks they have selected. If two people change different fields of a task, both changes keep. If they change the same field, the later save wins.

AI assistant #

An AI assistant connected through the AI connector can read a schedule and edit it: add tasks, move dates, set dependencies and more. Every change it makes is a new version you can undo.