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  1. Generate the Lookahead Generate your project's first 6 or 8 week Lookahead once the Masterplan is pre-configured, and see what the Lookahead screen shows.
  2. First Lookahead generation See how Lean PlanDo reschedules started and unstarted activities when you generate the first Lookahead, and how it records the delay.
  3. Task features in the Lookahead Open a task's detailed view or mini widget in the Lookahead, and see what each tab and menu item does.
  4. Change the Lookahead day Change the weekly Lookahead day in Project Settings, and see how the interim week moves your project to the new day.
  5. Create a single task Create one task under an activity in the Lookahead, and set its name, dates, sequence number, company and supervisor.
  6. Create multiple tasks Split one activity into several tasks at once in the Lookahead, with optional links between them.
  7. Add a task prefix Turn on task prefixes for an activity so every task name shows where it belongs, such as its zone and building level.
  8. Add a quantity to a task Quantify a task as a physical count, such as 3 columns, so you can update its progress in units instead of percentages.
  9. Edit a task Change a task's name, description, dates, duration or sequence number, and see how the change affects its activity.
  10. Delay or advance a task Move a task earlier or later to match site progress, and record the delay reason when the task has base dates.
  11. Delete a task Remove a task you no longer need from the schedule, and see which tasks cannot be deleted.
  12. Add a task dependency Link two tasks in the Lookahead so a successor task follows its predecessor, within one activity or across activities.
  13. Edit a task dependency Change the type or lag of a task dependency, disable it or delete it, so the Lookahead matches the planned construction sequence.
  14. Cyclic dependency behaviour Learn why Lean PlanDo shows an error when a dependency would make an activity or task both successor and predecessor.
  15. Add a task constraint Add a constraint to a task in the Lookahead, set its steps and due dates, and read its colour and status.
  16. Task constraint ETA Learn what a task constraint's ETA means and how to edit it in the Lookahead.
  17. Manage a task constraint Edit, reassign or delete a task constraint in the Lookahead, and read the delay icons.
  18. Update a task constraint due date Delay or advance a task constraint by changing the due date of its last step.
  19. Manage steps under a task constraint Edit the status, due date and assignee of each step in a task constraint.
  20. Commit a task to the Do tab Commit a constraint-free task in the Lookahead so it appears in the Do tab for the Do week.
  21. Uncommit a task from the Do tab Uncommit a task in the Do week when its work cannot go ahead, from the Lookahead, the detailed view or the Dashboard.
  22. Workable backlog Read the Should Do, Can Do, Will Do and Did counters in the Lookahead and Do tab headers.
  23. Save an activity as a template Save an activity's tasks and constraints as a template so you can reuse them on similar activities in the Lookahead.
  24. Apply a template Apply a saved template to an activity in the Lookahead to create its tasks and constraints automatically.
  25. Export two weeks of Lookahead tasks Export the first two weeks of your Lookahead, with tasks, as an Excel file.