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This button allows you to check the technical quality of a schedule.
It is used before finalizing and saving the baseline schedule.
When you click on the button, the following window is displayed; allowing you to select the fields to check.
After verification, the Check Schedule display will appear with a Verification Code field that will allow you to check for technical schedule errors or potential errors that you need to check.
In principle, to have technical schedule conformity, it is necessary;
- Having predecessors everywhere except the first activity, milestones may not have predecessors since there is a constrain for the start date. No predecessor link should be applied to summary tasks.
- Having successors everywhere except for the last activity. To have a good calculation of the network (mathematical model) all the tasks must be linked. We also check that links type are FS (Finish to Start) relation which is ideal to have a mathematical sound schedule. No successors link should be applied to summary tasks.
- The activities must be calculated automatically (always to have technical compliance and a good calculation of the network) so we check the task mode of each task is at auto-schedule.
- Have constraints only on milestones (events) and that they are justified.
- Have a single resource for each task ( to have a good level of detail and facilitates monitoring/updating and future analysis of the schedule). Also, have at least one resource assign to each task.
- No estimated duration, it is necessary before saving the baseline schedule that all durations are confirmed.
- Checking that only mandatory calendars are assigned to tasks (for example; a weather calendar assigned to outdoor tasks which may be weather dependent)
- Lags on predecessor and successor links should not be longer than the duration of the task to have proper monitoring and to be a logical link.
- All tasks should have a fixed duration, except if you are using work type resources.
- Verify if the leveling delay field has been applied and check its validity. Usually, on a baseline schedule, every leveling delay should be justified (you may write the justification in the Note field), or if you are using work type resources and whish to let Project level your resources and resolve conflicts or over allocations of those resources.
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This button allows when modifying the schedule to see the effect of this change on the project's end date or a specific task date without having to go look at that task.
It allows you to choose which task you want to follow if you want to follow an intermediate task.
When you click the following window appears:
You can select the end date of the project or follow the date of a particular task with the drop-down menu.
This is a toggle button, when you click it, it activates end date tracking and when you click again it stops following the end date.
You will be able to see if the Track End date is activated in the Status Bar, at the bottom of the Software window:
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It allows you to quickly reach an activity if you select its unique number.
When you click on the button, the following window is displayed:
In Project every new task is assigned a unique ID that will never be used again, you may use this number to find a specific activity.
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The buttons in this group will allow you to use different ways to analyze a schedule more easily.
The Unique ID button 
allows you to quickly access a task using its unique number.
The Track End date button 
allows you to see the delays or acceleration on a schedule of a specific task when there are changes in durations on a task's path.
The Task Path button 
allows you to see, depending on your selection, the predecessors, successors as well as those driving predecessor and driven successor of the selected task.
The Check Schedule button 
makes it easy to see if your schedule is technically compliant.
The Invalid Dates View 
help find Invalid dates in context on the update schedule in fonction on the Status date
The Compare Schedule button 
lets you compare two schedules for the same project according to their progress.
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This button allows you to cancel an update if you decide not to complete it.
It will erase all the files that were created to save the update.
If you try to abort an update without using this button, the Construction add-in will prevent you from switching views.
