Schedule
A look-ahead schedule is the next few weeks of the master schedule, pulled out and put in front of the people who have to do the work. In Fidrel you do not retype it: the schedule has a Next 3 weeks filter, a Gantt chart you can zoom to weeks, a Responsible field on every activity and a Copy button that puts the selected rows on your clipboard for a spreadsheet or an email.
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A superintendent hands a foreman a printout with several hundred lines when the foreman needs to know what starts Monday, what must be finished before it and who else is on the floor. The relevant dozen rows are buried.
The three-week sheet is rebuilt in Excel every week. By midweek a predecessor has slipped in the master schedule, the sheet still shows the old dates, and two trades are working from different pictures of the same week.
The window shows an activity but not who answers for it. When the drywall start moves, the superintendent has to work out which subcontractor to call from the activity title alone.
The filter compares each activity with today’s date. An activity stays in the window when its start is no later than 21 days from today and its end is today or later, so work that began last week and is still running is included, and work that finished yesterday is not. Milestones follow the same rule. Because the window moves with the calendar, you open the same filter every Monday instead of rebuilding a sheet.
Scheduling
The look-ahead is the master schedule, narrowed, and not a copy of it. When someone with edit rights drags a bar or changes a date, the next person who opens the filter sees the new dates. Only the project’s administrators edit the schedule; everyone else reads it and can still filter, zoom and copy. An activity can also be blocked by an open RFI or an open issue, so a constraint you are chasing shows up in the same list as the work it holds up.
Step 1
Open the Schedule and press Next 3 weeks among the quick filters above the chart. The list and the Gantt chart keep only activities that start within 21 days from today and have not already finished before today. Mine narrows it further to your own activities.
Step 2
Open the Time scale menu and choose Weeks, then press Today. The bars keep their dependencies and the critical path, so you can see which activity in the window is waiting on another, and Overdue or Blocked statuses stand out in the list.
Step 3
Click a row, Shift+click the last one and press Copy. Fidrel puts the ID, name, start, end, duration and progress of those rows on your clipboard as tab-separated text, ready to paste into a spreadsheet or an email to the foremen.
Step 4
Filter by Responsible or Discipline to see one person’s or one trade’s rows. On a phone the schedule can be shown as a list grouped under Overdue, This week, Next week, Later and Completed, with the responsible person or company on each row.
Fidrel runs in the browser, so a foreman who is a project member opens the same schedule on a phone and sees the list view. For people outside the project, paste the Copy output into the email or the sheet you already send. Progress is entered on the activity itself, and the progress line shows whether the day’s work is ahead of plan, on track or behind plan.
Fidrel has no separate look-ahead page; the Next 3 weeks filter narrows the schedule you already have, and the PDF and the other exports hold only the rows it leaves. The window is fixed at 21 days from today, so you cannot set another length or start it on a Monday. There are no weekly work plan commitments and no percent plan complete. Activities carry no crew, equipment or labor-hour loading. The PDF, Excel, CSV, PNG and SVG exports hold the filtered window, while the JSON file is always the whole plan and is not a window.
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Read moreOpen the Schedule and press Next 3 weeks under the quick filters. It shows the activities that start within 21 days from today or are running now. Select the rows and press Copy to paste them into a sheet or an email.
Yes. The Mine quick filter keeps the activities where you are the responsible person, and the Responsible filter shows another person’s activities if you want to see a foreman’s week.
No. Fidrel records progress on each activity and compares it with the planned progress for today, but it keeps no weekly commitments and does not calculate percent plan complete.
Not as a file. Yes: with Next 3 weeks on, the PDF, Excel, CSV, PNG and SVG exports hold only that window; the JSON file stays the whole plan. Filter to the window, select its rows and use Copy to paste just those rows elsewhere.
The project’s administrators edit the schedule, and other participants read it. Anyone who can open the schedule can filter, zoom and copy rows, but dates change only in the master schedule.
