Platform Ground truth models Connections

Schedule network analysis

See your schedule as the network it really is.

Connections lays out every activity and relationship as an interactive network, so you can trace logic, spot the critical path and find out-of-sequence links in seconds, even on the biggest programmes.

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DC Echo Connections
Version 14
Pull HV cables
Status
Critical path
2,180 activities · 3,412 relationships
C.U.3278
In progress
Pull HV cables, south feed
Total float
0d
Free float
0d
WBS
DC Echo / Electrical / HV
Relationships
3 in · 2 out
Graph
Timeline

Why teams choose it

Three reasons it earns its place.

01

The logic, not just the bars.

Click any activity to light up its incoming and outgoing links and open its details, with everything else fading back.

Focus on connections
02

Two views of the same network.

Switch between a force-layout graph and a timeline that places every activity on a date axis, with today marked.

Graph and Timeline
03

Built for the biggest schedules.

Filter, search and highlight the critical path on networks of 50,000 activities without the browser slowing down.

50,000 activities

Technical specification

Every relationship, in view.

Views
Force-layout graph, and a timeline placing activities by start date with a today marker
Nodes
Activities as circles, milestones as diamonds, relationships as arrows
Selection
Hover for key details, click to highlight incoming and outgoing links and open the activity drawer
Activity drawer
Status, total and free float, WBS path and relationships
Critical path
Critical activities and relationships drawn in red, with the view framed on the path
Status
Completed, in progress and not started, color-coded in both views
Filters and counts
Predefined filters, with filtered and total activity and relationship counts
Search
Find any activity, focus the view on it and open its drawer
Memory
Each view keeps its own zoom and position, and your chosen view is remembered per version

Critical path

The path that drives your finish, framed for you.

Switch on Critical path and every critical activity and relationship turns red, everything else fades, and the view frames the path automatically.

  • Critical path highlight
  • Auto-framing
  • Graph and timeline
Critical path
Status
Critical path

Status

See progress across the whole network.

Turn on Status to color every activity by completed, in progress or not started, and see at a glance where work has stalled.

  • Completed
  • In progress
  • Not started
Color by status
Status
Critical path

Timeline view

Watch the network unfold over time.

The timeline places every activity on a date axis by start date, with today marked, so out-of-sequence relationships stand out by severity.

  • Date axis
  • Today marker
  • Out-of-sequence logic
Timeline view
Graph
Timeline
TodayJanMarMayJulSep

Filters and scale

Narrow it down, at any size.

Apply predefined filters and see filtered and total counts side by side, on schedules up to 50,000 activities.

  • Predefined filters
  • Filtered and total counts
  • Large schedules
Filters
412 of 2,180 activities
Activity type
Task, milestone
WBS
Electrical
Status
Not started, in progress
Total float
Below 5 days
Stays interactive at
50,000 activities

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Technical questions about Connections.

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Your schedule as an interactive network: activities as circles, milestones as diamonds and relationships as arrows, in a graph or on a timeline.

Click it. Its incoming and outgoing relationships are highlighted, and the drawer opens with its status, floats, WBS path and relationships.

The same network placed on a date axis by start date, with today marked, so you can see how the work unfolds and spot out-of-sequence relationships.

Yes. Connections stays interactive on schedules of 50,000 activities, with filtered and total counts always shown.