Project information

Project Information

The Project Information window holds the project's metadata plus the Calculation section with the scheduling options. The same form also acts as the project wizard for New.

Opening

• Settings (ribbon tab) → ribbon group Project → Project info.
• Settings window (gear ⚙) → General tab → Project information...
• File → Project info — a simplified variant in the Backstage, with only the metadata fields (no Calculation section).

Apply commits all changes at once; Cancel, Esc or a click outside the window discards them. Enter does the same as Apply.

Metadata

• Project Name — the name in the title bar and the document tab.
• Description — free text.
• Engineer and Company — free text; stored in the IFC file.
• Start Date — the project start the calculation counts from.
• End Date — informative end of the project.

Calculation

Scheduling options for this project — they are stored with the file, not the app, so they travel to other machines. If you change anything here, the schedule is recalculated automatically after Apply.

• Critical definition — Total float ≤ threshold (with Threshold (work days), default 0) or Longest path.
• Float calculation — Smallest (start/finish) (default), Start float or Finish float.
• Open-ended tasks critical — marks tasks without a successor as critical.
• Mark near-critical — ticking it reveals an extra Threshold (default 2 work days; the unit follows the Duration display, so possibly hours): tasks with little float get the "near critical" marker.
• Multiple float paths — ticking it reveals the Method (Free float (peeling) or Total float (ranking)) and Max. paths (default 10): the calculation then numbers the most important float paths.
• Lag calendar — which calendar counts a relation's lag: Predecessor (default), Successor, 24-hour or Project calendar.

How to read these results is covered in Critical path & advanced analysis.

The project wizard (New)

New opens the same window as a wizard (title New project, button Create). Besides the metadata fields, the wizard contains:

• Phasing template — Empty, Residential construction or Commercial / renovation: fills the new project with a phase structure.
• Shift — only visible with hour planning enabled: Day shift (default), 2 shifts, 3 shifts or 24/7.
• Holiday set — generates the project calendar: pick a country (with region and construction holiday where applicable), No holidays, or Custom… — the latter opens the calendar dialog right after creation so you can compose the calendar by hand. See Calendar dialog.

The Calculation section is absent from the wizard; set it afterwards through one of the entrances above.