Process Network
One of the ways to view project tasks, helping collaborators to efficiently sort out the tasks in order and clarify the key paths of tasks. It is generally used for task creation and process tracking of multi-task line projects, helping project managers to make reasonable plans and schedules, and fully understand the progress of the project. It helps managers to adjust plans in time to ensure efficient and reasonable project progress.
Functional Description
● Professional Edition and Business Edition support network diagram function
● Network diagram is an openable component in the project and can be turned on/off in the project menu bar
● The network diagram is divided into edit and view mode
● Edit mode
○ Support create tasks, connect tasks before and after, and adjust task time in the diagram. Tasks created/modified in the diagram will be created and modified synchronously
● View mode
○ View only the project network diagram and the current task completion status
○ View the forward line
● Task
The task name is displayed inside the arrow, and the task status is represented by circles of different colors.
The time points corresponding to the left and right nodes of the task are the planned start and deadline of the task.
Only the first-level tasks in the project are displayed in the diagram.
Tasks with both start and end times will be displayed in the diagram.
● Dotted line
The dotted line indicates the order of tasks.
The dotted line is drawn from the end node of the previous task and connected to the start node of the next task.
● Wave line
Free time difference: The difference between the completion time of the previous task and the start time of the subsequent task is called the free time difference. The time span of the waveform line indicates the length of the free time difference.
● The node table indicates the end or start of the task. Two tasks are connected through the same node, indicating the order of the tasks.
View mode
● Taskbar: Click the Taskbar button in the operation bar to open the taskbar, which displays the first-level tasks in the current project.
1. The task bar displays the first-level tasks in the current project. Click the wbs number. If the task is in the picture, the corresponding task will light up.
2. The task bar supports task filtering, opening, and task fields sorting.
● Forward Line
The forward line connects the current date and the start node of the ongoing tasks on each line. You can use the forward line to quickly check the progress of each line in the project.
Edit mode
Click the Edit button in View mode to enter Edit mode
Operation bar
● View switch
Support switch between daily view, weekly view, monthly view, and network view
● Mark the critical path
Click to mark the critical path of the current network diagram. If there is no path that meets the conditions, a pop-up window will prompt the reason.
● Check
Click to check the problems in the current network diagram, such as no critical path, no starting point and end point, etc. The inspection results will be displayed in a floating window on the right side of the diagram
● Save
Click Save to save the current network diagram. Saving will record the task arrangement and the order of tasks. Task creation does not need to be saved separately.
Graphic operation
● Create a task
Click a blank position in the picture to create a task with the clicked position as the task start time. Enter the name and press Enter or click a blank position with the mouse to successfully create the task.
● Create a pro-sequence task
Click the task end node, click the plus sign on the right side of the node, enter the new task name and press Enter to create a pro-sequence task with the same start and end time.
● Press and drag the task node to change the start and end time of the connected node task
If a node is both the end node of the predecessor task and the start node of the pro-sequence task, dragging the node will modify the deadline of the pre-sequence task and the start time of the pro-sequence task at the same time.
● Press and drag a task to change the task row and task time
● Move the mouse to the edge of the task to modify the task time without adjusting the node
● A solid line is drawn from the right side of the node. Connecting to the node to create a task
● Dash lines are drawn from the nodes up and down to connect to the task end node to create an association relationship
● Delete associations
Click the dotted line/wavy line of a task and click the delete icon to delete the association.
Permission Description
● Permissions for viewing, editing, and exporting network diagrams have been added to the permission item control in Project Settings - Project Roles and Permissions
● The permissions for viewing and editing tasks in the network diagram follow the user's permissions for the task. ○ For example, if a user does not have permissions for a certain list task, he will not be able to operate on the list task in the network diagram.