You hear about changes last
A date moves in the master and reaches you through the foreman a few days later, after you have scheduled crews and deliveries around the old one.
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Construction scheduling for subcontractors
A subcontractor needs their dates and not an argument about the whole project. Fidrel has no separate trade portal: you get an account on the same project, with the access the general contractor chose. This page says what that gives you in the schedule, and what it does not.
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What a trade needs from the schedule
Your activities are buried
The full schedule lists every trade, and finding the handful of rows that are yours takes longer than reading them.
Telling the GC means another e-mail
When your own date slips, the news has to reach the right person with the activity attached, not as a message that has to be explained.
Scoped by schedule, not by activity
A schedule is either Shared with everyone in the project who has access to schedules, administrators, participants and guests alike, or Internal, for project administrators only. There is nothing in between, and no way to show a trade only its own rows. A general contractor who wants a trade to see less can keep the master Internal and share a duplicate that holds only the rows that trade needs; the copy gets the same activities, dependencies and calendar, and the GC deletes the rest. Every participant with schedule access sees that shared copy.
Scheduling
What you can update
As a participant you read the schedule and comment on activities. You do not edit dates or progress: only project and organization administrators do, and the GC cannot give you that right, not even for your own activities. The header shows Read-only. You do not see the estimate or the finances unless they were shared with you, and cost tracking is given person by person.
Getting your dates and answering back
Step 1
Accept the invitation
The GC invites you by e-mail with a role and access to the whole project or chosen parts and folders. The invitation is valid for seven days. Before it goes out, a summary lists what you will see and do and what you will not see, and the schedule is among the parts it names.
Step 2
Filter to your own activities
Each activity has a Responsible person, a Company and a Discipline. If the GC has made you Responsible for your activities, the Mine quick filter keeps just those, and you can filter by responsible person and discipline. Being made responsible is told in the bell.
Step 3
Read what could hold you up
A marker on an activity shows when an open RFI or an open issue blocks it, with the title and the deadline. The bar shows its dates, and, if a baseline is saved, the bar under it shows where it was first planned.
Step 4
Tell the GC on the activity
Write a comment on the activity and mention the person with @. They see it in the bell with a link to the activity. Fidrel sends no e-mail for this, so call if it cannot wait.
What Fidrel does not do for a trade
Fidrel has no separate subcontractor view. It does not send a trade its dates by e-mail or text message, and it has no look-ahead page of its own for a trade.
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Frequently asked questions
Anything else on your mind? We are happy to help.
Talk to usYou see every schedule shared with the project, in full. A schedule marked Internal is visible to project administrators only, so the GC can keep a master out of sight.
No. Only project and organization administrators change dates, and that right cannot be given to a participant. You can still comment on your activities.
Write a comment on the activity and mention the project manager. They are told in the bell, and the comment stays on the activity for everyone who can read the schedule.
With the Mine quick filter, if the GC has set you as the responsible person on them. The rest of the shared schedule remains visible to you.
A schedule exports to PDF, Excel, CSV, PNG and SVG and prints from the same menu. The PNG and SVG exports stop at 200 activities.