Timeline

The Timeline is the project’s programme as a week-by-week chart. You build it from phases — first fix, say — each drawn in its own colour, and each phase can have several tracks when work runs in parallel, one row per floor or plot for instance. The chart runs on weeks: click a week on a track to note what is happening and light it up in the phase’s colour.

Anyone whose role includes Timeline can edit it. The project’s start and handover dates are drawn on the chart, today is marked whenever it falls on the programme, and the chart simply keeps extending as you scroll — the Today button brings you back when you’ve wandered.

You don’t have to build the phase list by hand each time: a timeline template holds your usual phases in order, and Apply template on the ⋮ menu beside Add phase adds them to the end of the chart in one go, each picking up the next free colour. You can also apply one when creating a project, so a new project starts with its programme sketched out.

Weeks

Clicking a week opens that week’s panel: a note of what’s happening, and chips for Active, Delivery and Key event. Active is what fills the cell with colour; deliveries and key events show as icons, and a note shows as a dot you can read by hovering. The chips save on the spot, and the note saves when you leave the panel. Typing into an empty week, or marking a disruption on it, switches Active on for you, so a note usually lights the week without a second click.

Disruptions

A week can carry one of two disruption marks: Variation, for a change in scope, or Delay, for slippage — bad weather and the like. A variation shows as a dashed border, a delay as hatching, so a troubled stretch of programme is visible at a glance. Disruptions also feed the project’s risk briefing.

Checkpoints

The Checkpoints rail under the chart is for the things that must be verified on site before work moves on — checking dimensions against drawings before the next stage, say. A checkpoint sits before a chosen week with a title and notes; once that week arrives unchecked, it shows overdue in red.

Mark as checked is the sign-off: confirm it has been checked on site, add a comment if you want, and the checkpoint turns green with who checked it and when. It locks at that point — Undo the check if it needs editing again.

What your client sees

Your client never sees the chart itself. Instead, each phase with active weeks becomes a milestone — its name, colour and dates — shown as a simple timeline on the My Project page of their portal, with where the project is now. Everything else — tracks, notes, deliveries, disruptions, checkpoints — stays on your side.

Phases reach beyond the chart too: site updates can Tag a phase, tying the diary to the programme. On a completed project the timeline stays readable but nothing can be changed.