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- 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.
- First Lookahead generation See how Lean PlanDo reschedules started and unstarted activities when you generate the first Lookahead, and how it records the delay.
- 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.
- 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.
- Create a single task Create one task under an activity in the Lookahead, and set its name, dates, sequence number, company and supervisor.
- Create multiple tasks Split one activity into several tasks at once in the Lookahead, with optional links between them.
- 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.
- 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.
- Edit a task Change a task's name, description, dates, duration or sequence number, and see how the change affects its activity.
- 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.
- Delete a task Remove a task you no longer need from the schedule, and see which tasks cannot be deleted.
- Add a task dependency Link two tasks in the Lookahead so a successor task follows its predecessor, within one activity or across activities.
- 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.
- Cyclic dependency behaviour Learn why Lean PlanDo shows an error when a dependency would make an activity or task both successor and predecessor.
- 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.
- Task constraint ETA Learn what a task constraint's ETA means and how to edit it in the Lookahead.
- Manage a task constraint Edit, reassign or delete a task constraint in the Lookahead, and read the delay icons.
- Update a task constraint due date Delay or advance a task constraint by changing the due date of its last step.
- Manage steps under a task constraint Edit the status, due date and assignee of each step in a task constraint.
- 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.
- 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.
- Workable backlog Read the Should Do, Can Do, Will Do and Did counters in the Lookahead and Do tab headers.
- 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.
- Apply a template Apply a saved template to an activity in the Lookahead to create its tasks and constraints automatically.
- Export two weeks of Lookahead tasks Export the first two weeks of your Lookahead, with tasks, as an Excel file.