Once you have created a project and uploaded your baseline schedule, you are ready to import your schedule updates.
Import or Upload Schedule Updates:
Once you have created a project with a baseline schedule, you can upload all of your schedule updates at once. You can upload schedule updates from the Dashboard page or by selecting Manage Schedules clipboard icon on the Project Workspace page.
It is always best to do a bulk import of your schedules so that SmartPM just does one analysis instead of loading them one by one and triggering a separate analysis for each one. This will save time in the analysis calculations.
From the main Dashboard
- Click on “Manage Schedules” located on the menu bar under each project
- Click in the “Select Schedule File” box, and select the schedule updates you want to add
- Click on the “Save Changes” button
- You will be notified once the upload is complete. Select the OK button.
From the Project Workspace
- Select the “Manage Schedules” clipboard icon on the right-hand side
- Click in the “Select Schedule File” box, and select all of the schedule updates you want to add
- Click on the “Save” button
- You will be notified once the upload is complete. Click the OK button.
- Once the schedules have been verified click the Close button.
- You will receive an email once the delay analysis is complete.
The amount of time this takes to process is going to be heavily dependent on the size of the schedules and the number of schedules. If there are a lot of schedules, then it will take longer to process because there are millions of calculations involved in doing the analysis, which would take 10 times longer to calculate manually. You will receive an email notification once the actual upload has completed and be able to view all the data