So, we made some formatting changes within Microsoft Project in order to see the critical path. Typically, in P6 the critical path is already highlighted. So, you see that in red. It's already there. Again, if you want to change that formatting, the software applications are very similar, so never hesitate to really just click on a couple of items and figure out what menus you get. That's really how you learn the best. So, if I right-click here and click bar chart options. Then I can see different options for the bar chart. I can reformat that page, however, I want to see it. So, let's say, I want to show the relationships. Right now you only see these bars, all right? So, I can click on show relationships. Let's say, I want to show a legend to show me what green means, what red means, what blue means. So, let's show that. There are different formatting here, I'm not going to go into every one. But the data date, for example, here it's shown in blue, some people prefer to show it in red, there's some people which prefer to show a dashed item. Sight lines are really these. So, you see these that specify which month, the month end and the activity start and end, so you can show major, show minor, and so on. So, let me show these lines. And it asks you at what level do you want to see it. Let me click OK here. So, you can see now that change that just happened. The other thing is, so this legend just appeared, then so on. The other thing is, a lot of times you want to see this differently, so you want to see it grouped or not grouped, and you want to see it by year, by quarter, and so on. So, you can certainly hover over until you get this magnifying glass, and then click. And then you can expand it, so you can see more, or minimize it to see less. So here, and you can edit that time scale to show what you need. So, I'm showing type, year, month, maybe, I want to show month and week. So, that's better, that shows me a little bit more. I can show different types of items as well. So, let me see quarter and month. That's another option and so on. So, that's from a formatting standpoint. Let's say, which is a request that happens all the time. And again, the same thing you can do in Microsoft project with the same kind of idea, that you can filter all these activities to just show what you want. So, you can click on this filter right here and click customize. So, the default with MP6 is that you have a critical items filter. But let's say, I want to create my own, just to show you how that works. So I'm going to add a new filter and I'm going to call it critical activities test. And I'm going to specify the condition for the filters, so I'm going to say total, Float equals 0 and then click OK. So, it shows up under my user defined filters. You can modify that filter at any time and click apply. So, it only shows me and click OK, it only shows me the critical activities. So, that's a request that happens almost on every project. On every project, your submission has to include a PDF of the whole schedule and a PDF of the critical activities. The other thing that you can is that in this view, you have just milestones, right? You have, sorry, just the work breakdown structure, even if under GC submittals, for example, there's no work that's critical. The plumbing work is not critical. Sprinkler is not critical. Electrical is not critical. So, what do I do there in order to remove that? Remove these bands when there's no activities under them, I don't need to see them? So, you can go to this layout and customize. And then remove any empty items. So, hide if empty. And then click OK. So, that looks much cleaner, it's easier, it's more presentable. The other pretty interesting things about P6 as well is that so let's see here. You can click on any of these activities. If you want to see not only what's the predecessor and what's the successor but you want to trace the whole logic. You want to see what it's related to throughout the whole path of the project. Not one at a time. So, you can click on this icon right here and you can trace the logic. So, you can see that activity in context of anything it's related to before and anything it's related to after its completion. Before it starts and after its completion and what they're related to and next and next and next and so on. So, that's a very interesting and cool feature that you would typically need to utilize. So, let me go back to this view right here. The other thing that's very beneficial is these activity codes. Most projects will have some kind of contractual requirement to include activity codes for every set of activities that you have included. So, what that activity could could be, could be anything ranging from the area of work, who is responsible for the work, the CSI codes, the uniformat. And we really heavily rely on that whether it's in terms of the CSI codes to link it to cost loaded schedules. To link it to BIM activities, to specify which activities will be linked to BIM in the first place. These activity codes are your mechanism of tagging any of these activities with some kind of code to group it by. So, let me group this by activity codes. And let's say I don't want to see it by work breakdown structure, I want to see it by activity codes. So, let me go here. Group and sort again, and I'm going to change this WBS for area, so here the name of the code is area or department. I'm going to assume it's this one. So here this is GC work, right? So, that's correct. So, you can group it by activity codes as well. So, you're not limited to grouping by WBS, you can group it by anything, critical, non-critical. Group it by activities that include the word conduit and activities that include the word concrete. Whatever it is that you need in order to analyze your schedule or visualize something specific that you'd like to look at. You can always group and sort differently. So, I'm going to put it back to this WBS Structure. And then I'm going to remove the filter. So, I'm going to go click on the filter icon. Click on customize and remove the filter icon by clicking on all activities. That removes all the filters that are there. All right, similar to Microsoft Project, you can also view the schedule in different formats. So, you can also view the charts for as specific work breakdown structure or for the whole project. So, this is the whole project chart. So, you can see that it's pretty detailed, it's a lot, so that's a very difficult view to see it then. But, if you want to look at some specific work breakdown structure, you can. Other items that are within the setup of the project are also similar to Microsoft Project or Calendar and other things. So, if I go back to that project's level, the enterprise project structure and click on the project. Highly recommended to set up these settings before the start of a project. So, you need to give the project an ID, a project name, give it a status. So, let's say I want to identify all projects that are under an active status and I want to report on them as a company. Assigning your responsible manager, setting the priority level in case you're scheduling across multiple projects. You have a notebook where you can add notes about that project. What's very important to me typically is that default section. So, the defaults makes sure that any default, any activity that I add, it defaults to these settings. So, this really saves me a lot of time in setting up activity settings. So, any time I have an activity, I want it to be task dependent. Imagine, if this was a milestone, that means every time I have an activity I have to change the setting to make it task dependent. So, I'm specs-ing these default items. And the activity ID, I automatically want it to add in increments of A1000, A2000, and so on. So A1010, the increment is 10, so A1010, 1,020, and so on. So, that makes it much easier. And the settings of the project itself. So, you can set how it calculates the critical path. So, whether the critical path is calculated, if the total float is less than or equal to 0, sometimes we specify it less than or equal to 3. Or a different number or it's just dependent on the longest path rather than calculating the float. From a date standpoint, similar again to Microsoft Project, you have to specify what's the planned date, and if there is a must finish by date and your data date today, what that is. So, that's again fixed on a project level. All right, so, this covers some basics of how to open up a schedule that's already in P6 and so on. But, how do you really create one? So, let me close the project right now. So I'm going to go file and close. Similar to the project that we created in Microsoft Project, we're going to create the same one.
