Access this demo here.

 

After you log into RAVE, we access the project management systems by clicking on the ‘Site/Build’ button at the top right of the page.  We find and open the job that we want to manage the schedule for.  Then, click on the ‘Schedule’ sub-tab.






Navigation of the Schedule Views + Schedule Screen

 

We're going to start our navigation of the project's Schedule tab, by starting at the top section of the page - that is summarising our four schedule views and the schedule settings page (available as Schedule sub-tabs to the top left of the screen), before continuing down and across the rest of this top section - we'll go into more detail on each aspect of this screen a little later.



The ‘Task List’ view
Displays the schedule in a Task List format - grouping scheduled tasks into blocks of Milestones (stages)



 

The ‘Task Gantt’ view 
Is a Gantt chart view of the schedule - where tasks are listed and also displayed with duration bars



  

The ‘Task Calendar’ view 
Is a month-by-month diary view of tasks in the schedule 




The top-level ‘Milestone Gantt’ view
Is a higher-level Gantt chart view of the schedule - where the milestones (instead of tasks) are listed and displayed with duration bars



 

The Project's Schedule ‘Settings’ sub-tab
Is where we can add holidays and adjust the background settings of your schedule.




The Schedule Action Drop-Down menu

Back to our ‘Task List’ view, the schedule action drop-down menu (the meatballs icon to the right of the job number) is where we can access a number of actions to manage our schedule.

 

 


The ‘Activate Schedule’ button

Allows you to hide your schedule until you are ready to share it - even if the project is live (active) and visible to your sub-trades.  The schedule is kept hidden until you 'activate' it.

 

 


The Schedule Details Pane

Provides additional project details:

  • The Schedule Type - Classic, Advanced, and Enterprise - see notes below*
  • The Client's Name + Contract Name - if loaded
  • The Site Address - if loaded
  • The Site Manager Name - if loaded
  • The Template(s) loaded to this project

  




NOTE: RAVE has three scheduling systems - these are:

RAVE's Classic Scheduling - included for all RAVE branches by default - where tasks (and milestones) are ordered by start date - you can move:

  • An individual task
  • This task + all future milestone tasks
  • This task + all future scheduled tasks

RAVE's Advanced Scheduling - introduces hourly durations, and task linking (with predecessors/successors) to provide more granular control over your scheduling.  This scheduling mode is primarily for maintenance companies who need to schedule by the hour.

RAVE's Enterprise Scheduling - includes task linking (predecessors/successors) and the use of constraints (i.e. must start on) to provide complete control over your scheduling.  This scheduling mode is primarily for building companies who want to have greater control of their scheduling, or who have used the likes of Microsoft projects, and/or the more expensive overseas scheduling software.