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Activity Logic History Module
The Activity Logic History Module is a powerful yet simple tool that allows you to track the logic status of any activity across multiple Project Schedules. There are a few prerequisites that must be set for the Activity Logic History Module to work properly.
Zümmer assumes that the Project Schedules used in the Activity Logic History analysis are in at least one, but not more than ten Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) nodes. Project Schedules that are assigned as baselines do not appear within the EPS and therefore, are not selectable for this analysis. If you have a baseline assigned to a Project Schedule and you want to use the assigned Project Schedule for Activity Logic History analysis, then restore that Project Schedule and place it in one of the selected EPS nodes.
In the illustration below, a typical EPS is displayed. Note that the EPS nodes are displayed in Dark Blue, Green and Yellow while the Project Schedules are listed below in White with black font. Also, note that some EPS nodes do not have Project Schedules immediately under then while others do. For example, EPS node “SR32S” does not have any Project Schedules while EPS Nodes “SR32-Q1” and “SR32-Q2” have 3 Project Schedules each.
A well-conceived EPS as shown below is very helpful in performing Activity Logic History analysis.
The next step is to identify the Project Schedules to be used in the Activity Logic History analysis. Typically, this involves using multiple Project Schedules updates for the same Construction Project. In the illustration above the SR32 South Project has 12 monthly updates in 4 different Quarterly EPS Nodes.
In Zümmer, the next step is to define the EPS Nodes that will contain the Projects that will be used for the Activity Logic History Analysis.
Once selected, the Activity Logic History Settings displays as shown below. The Available Nodes listbox on the left alphabetically displays all EPS Node that contain at least 1 Project Schedule. The Selected Nodes listbox on the right displays the Selected EPS node to be included in the Activity History analysis. In the illustration below, EPS Node “SR32 Q1” have been selected. A maximum of 10 EPS Nodes can be selected for the Activity Logic History analysis. Click OK when the all the EPS Nodes have been selected.
When the OK button is clicked, Zümmer saves the Selected Nodes for Analysis Activity Logic History Reporting. In addition to the Selected Nodes, all Projects under the selected nodes will be used for the Activity Logic History analysis. Therefore, In the example above, Projects: SR32-UP45, SR32-UP46, and SR32UP47, and all the activities within these Projects will be considered in the Activity Logic History Module analysis.
Once the EPS nodes are selected using the Settings->Activity Logic History option, the Activity Logic History Module is ready for use.
When the Activity Logic History Module Toolbar button is clicked, the Activity Logic History window is displayed as shown below.
Within the Activity Logic History window, the “Activity List” List Box is displayed along with the Activity ID Textbox and Search Button, the Activity ID and Activity Name grid.
In the illustration above, the listed Activity ID’s and Activity Names are displayed as a result of the EPS Nodes selected from the Activity Logic History Settings option. The entire list of Activity ID’s and corresponding Activity Names originate from the Projects contained in the EPS Nodes selected. The Activities are sorted by Activity ID. You can select any Activity by scrolling down or you can enter an Activity ID (or beginning part) into the Search Textbox.
In the illustration above, note that Activity ID “C-1-1-R291” is listed twice. The Activity List here will display multiples instances of the same Activity ID when differences in Activity Name for the same Activity ID appear within the selected Project Schedules. In the example above, two Activity Names for Activity ID “C-1-1-R291” occur in the Project Updates/Baseline under the selected EPS nodes.
Any Activity ID, Activity Name can be selected by scrolling up or down the list box or by entering a valid or beginning part of the Activity ID (or beginning part) into the Search Textbox and click on the Search command button.
As illustrated above, Activity ID “C-1-1-R431” is highlighted and therefore the Activity ID/Activity Name to be reported.
The Activity Logic History Module is an immensely powerful yet simple tool that allows you to track the status of any activity across multiple Project Schedules.
The Activity Logic History Module, lists all the activities that exist across all the Projects under the selected EPS node(s) defined in the Activity Logic History Settings.
In the illustration above, Activity ID “C-1-1-R441” is selected. From this point, you have the option of Printing or Previewing the activity logic history for the selected Activity ID across the Project Schedules that exist under the Selected EPS Node(s). In the following page, you can see the report created for this module.
Clicking on the Print command button shown above produces the Activity Logic History Report for the selected Activity ID. (See lllustration below).
The Activity Logic History Report shows the Selected Activity ID and Name in the Page Header in the tan colored band. The report then groups the Logic History by Project ID shown under the green band and the selected Activity ID and Name in the light red band. Note that the Activity Name may be different under the grouped Project Schedule.
For the selected Activity ID for each Project Schedule, the Activity ID, Activity Name, Original Duration (OD), Remaining Duration (RD), Actual Start (AS), Actual Finish (AF), Early Start (ES), Early Finish (EF), Late Start (LS), Late Finish (LF)Activity Type, Driving Path Indicator (DP) and Total Float (TF) are shown.
Below each Activity ID under each Project Schedule, the Predecessors are listed first and then the Successors are listed. Predecessor are listed in blue, while the Successors are listed in red. For each Predecessor/Successor the same information is provided as for the Activity ID. In addition, the Relationship Type (Rel) and Lag (Lag) are shown.
In the example shown above, the Successor for selected Activity C-1-1-R431 in Project Schedule SR23S-45 is Activity “C-1 1-1-R441 – CE Access – Place Asphalt”. However, In Project Schedule SR23S-46, the Successor was changed to Activity “C 1-1-R1551 – CE Access – Final Grading for Sod”. Then in Project Schedule SR23S-47, the Successor was changed again to Activity “C-1-1-R1561 – CE Access – Performance Turf Sod”.
Clicking on the Preview command button allows you to preview the report as shown above prior to actually printing the report.