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How do I build a project schedule from my BOQ?

Add activities and milestones by hand, or generate a starting schedule straight from your priced BOQ sections.

There are two ways to start a schedule: build it activity by activity, or generate a starting point from your BOQ.

Add an activity by hand

  1. Open the project's Schedule tab.
  2. Click “Add activity.”
  3. Enter a Name and a planned start and planned end date.
  4. For a zero-duration event instead of a span of work — a handover date, an inspection — check “This is a milestone.” The form collapses to a single Date field, and the activity's start and end are forced to match.
  5. Click “Add activity.”
A project Gantt schedule showing activities with status colors, a progress bar, and dependency lines between bars

Or generate a starting schedule from your BOQ

The “Generate from BOQ” button creates one activity per priced top-level BOQ section automatically, chained one after another. It's additive — running it again won't duplicate or overwrite activities you've already added by hand — and it's a starting point to adjust, not a finished schedule: you'll still want to set real dependencies and dates. See setting dependencies.

Who can do this

Owner, Admin, and Project Manager can add and edit activities. Estimator and Field Supervisor can view the schedule but not change it.

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