Overview

Scheduling Options allow you to decide how P3 calculates and displays the following date and duration information:

• Automatic scheduling and Leveling

• Out of sequence progress

• Start to Start Lag

• Activity Durations with Finish to Finish relationships

• Open Ends, activities without successors

• Total Float Calculations for Interruptible Scheduling and Hammocks

Select Tools, Schedule, Options to open the Scheduling/Level Calculations Options form:

15.1 Automatic Scheduling and Leveling

P3 has an Automatic Scheduling and Leveling Option. The project will be scheduled and/or leveled as appropriate when data is changed.

Select Tools, Schedule, Options icon to open the Schedule/Level Calculations Options form:

• Select Off and P3 will only schedule when you press F9, select Tools, Schedule, Schedule Now or click on the icon on the Tool Bar.

• Select Schedule automatically and P3 will schedule each time data that affects that timing, such as durations, constraints and logic, is changed.

• Select Level automatically and P3 will level the schedule each time you make changes to resources and recalculate the schedule.

15.2 Out-of-Sequence Progress

Out of Sequence Progress decides how original logic applies to the remaining work of a partially completed activity with an incomplete predecessor.

There are two options for calculating this relationship in P3:

• Retained Logic and

• Progress Override.

Retained Logic

The diagram below shows the effect of selecting Retained logic. The remaining work on the activity is scheduled to be completed after the predecessor.