Executing Scheduling in Monitoring Dates 

Prerequisites

You have created one or more groups for the current project. You have assigned events and components to these groups. You have specified the order in which the events occur and the time offset between consecutive events. See Assigning Events to a Group and Assigning Components to a Group.

Procedure

  1. Call up the Dates Overview. Choose Logistics ® Project System ® Material ® Monitoring Dates and then Dates
  2. Select the components whose events you want to schedule.

 To select a component, select the row in which the name of the component and the traffic light appears . You cannot select individual date types on the date overview.
  1. Select the event at which you want to start scheduling. This does not have to be the start or finish of the sequence. You can start scheduling from any event in the sequence as long as the scheduling parameters position and offset have been defined for this event.
  2. To set the scheduling parameters, choose Scheduling. On the dialog box that appears you can select the date types to schedule, the scheduling direction and the events to schedule. If you select the Display parameters indicator, the dialog box appears every time you schedule.

You can schedule baseline dates and planned dates.

  1. Choose to schedule.

Fixing Dates

It is possible to fix dates. A fixed date is not scheduled, irrespective of the scheduling parameters. To fix a date, go to the detail screen for a component, by selecting the component and choosing . Set the Fixed indicator for the relevant event and date type.

Working with Scheduling Scenarios

You can reduce the amount of work involved in assigning and scheduling events by using scheduling scenarios. For more details, see Scheduling Scenarios.

Result

The system schedules the selected dates and events in the selected direction. The results are displayed immediately in the dates overview.