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How to work with Work Order Planning in Next Project

This article describes how to work with the ‘Time schedule workorder’ tab in the Planning module.

Creating a Schedule

In the ‘Time schedule workorder’ tab in the Planning module, you can work with a simple schedule on your project. To create a new schedule, follow the steps below:

  1. Create a project with work orders specifying ‘Production start date’ and ‘Production end date’ in the Work order module.


  2. Go to the Planning module and then the ‘Time schedule workorder’ tab. Click on the ‘Create Gantt Tasks’ button


  3. A planning view with activities from work orders created will be displayed with the specified dates from the Work order module.


  4. From here you can move activities around, by clicking on the planning record, dragging and dropping it where you want it. The date will then also be updated in the Work Order module.

Creating dependencies between activities

You can also set dependencies between activities by following the steps below:

  1. Hover over a schedule item and click on the white dot at either end


  2. Then drag it to the white dot on the schedule item you want to create dependencies between


  3. The schedule record will then be moved to match the end and start dates of the activities, but you can move the activities around and change the dates


Show hours worked

In the ‘Time schedule workorder’ tab you can quickly visualise how much of the calculated time has been spent on the activities. To see how much time has been spent on the activities, follow the steps below:

  1. Firstly, you need to enter the calculated hours on the work orders. You do this in the Work order module under the ‘Order lines’ tab.


  2. Go to the Planning module on the tab ‘Time schedule workorder’ and select ‘Show hours worked / budget’.


  3. The schedule items now show in dark green how much time has been spent on each work order based on what was calculated. If you hover/click on an item, you can see the percentage of hours spent of those calculated.


  4. If more hours than calculated have been spent on a work order, that work order will be highlighted in red:


  5. The schedule items that are completely light green either have no hours reported on them or no calculated hours on them in the Work order module.