For general contractors
A general contractor often carries two schedules: the master schedule the owner sees, and a tighter one for the trades, with float held back for the contractor. The hard part is not building both, it is controlling who sees which. This page shows how a project in Fidrel holds several schedules, how the Internal and Shared switch works, and what a copy does and does not carry over.
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When both versions live in files on a shared drive, one wrong attachment puts the contractor’s private float in front of the owner, or the owner’s milestone dates in front of a trade that now plans to them.
The trade schedule is usually a copy of the master with tighter dates. After a few weeks of updates nobody can say which activities were changed on purpose and which were simply never carried across.
A trade that works from last month’s PDF builds to dates that no longer exist. Everyone who needs the current schedule has to be able to open it, not wait for the next email.
A project can have several schedules, and each one is either Shared or Internal. Shared is the default view for the team: administrators, participants and guests who have access to schedules. Internal is for project administrators only, and it can be shared later in one click. Making a schedule internal hides it from participants and guests everywhere, in search and the overview as well, and nothing in the schedule is deleted.
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The copy gets the same activities, dependencies and working calendar. Baselines, history and linked records are not copied, so the trade schedule starts without the master’s saved baseline and without the RFIs, issues and documents linked to its activities. That is deliberate for a working copy, but it means you should save a fresh baseline on the copy if you want to measure its variance.
Step 1
Create the schedule for the project with Create schedule, add activities, milestones, dependencies and the working calendar, and keep it Shared if the owner and the team should see it.
Step 2
Choose Duplicate schedule. The copy is named with “(copy)” after the original and gets the same activities, dependencies and working calendar, so you can tighten dates without touching the master.
Step 3
Click the Shared or Internal chip on a schedule. Internal means only project administrators see it; Shared means everyone in the project with access to schedules does. Fidrel asks you to confirm before it changes.
Step 4
Give each activity its Responsible, Company and Discipline, so the trade schedule can be filtered down to one subcontractor’s work. Export the chart as PNG, SVG or PDF for anyone outside the project.
Only project and organization administrators can change a schedule, whichever version it is. Participants and guests with access read it. Fidrel does not tie the two schedules together: nothing moves in the master when you move a date in the copy, so the contractor decides when and how the two are reconciled.
Fidrel does not merge subcontractor schedules into the master or keep the two in step. Baselines, history and linked records are not copied when you duplicate a schedule. A subcontractor reads a schedule through a project account as a participant or guest, and a trade without an account can be given an exported chart. Fidrel is not a contract tool, so what the owner is entitled to see is for your agreement to say.
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Talk to usYes. A project can have several schedules, and each one is either Shared with everyone who has schedule access or Internal to project administrators.
Only project administrators see an Internal schedule. Participants and guests no longer see it in search, in the overview or in Fidrel AI, and nothing in the schedule is deleted.
The activities, dependencies and working calendar. Baselines, history and linked records are not copied.
No. The copy is a separate schedule from the moment you make it. Fidrel does not keep two schedules in step or merge them.
No. Only project and organization administrators edit schedules, and that right cannot be given to a participant or guest. A subcontractor reads it, and anyone outside the project can be given an export.
Yes, as rows. The import takes Microsoft Project XML, Excel, CSV or a Fidrel schedule, and adds activities and dependencies as copies using the project calendar.
