Asta Powerproject Advanced

Learn to create resource pools in Asta Powerproject Advanced, define permanent and consumable resources, assign calendars and availability, and link resources to activities.

Explore permanent resources in a non-modal modeling type, showing how a resource is assigned to an activity for its full duration, with duration, allocation, and effort calculations.

Explore permanent resource allocation using effort on allocation, balancing and calculated parameters, enabling independent task and resource durations adjusted through the bar chart.

Apply permanent resource modelling to allocate carpenters by work amount and rate, using work based data and efficiency. Adjust allocations across resource groups to reflect different work amounts and durations.

Model permanent resources by linking work to the activity through task work, assign per group task work and work rates, and adjust duration to see automatic allocation changes.

In Asta Powerproject Advanced, model permanent resources and manage an effort activity budget by distributing total effort to resource groups proportionally, adjusting duration and allocation when location changes.

Model consumable resources by choosing a modeling type, assigning resources to activities, and calculating quantity from consumption rate and activity duration.

Model quantity on allocation by adjusting the quantity consumption rate and duration for each consumable resource, so rates update with changing quantities, durations, and per-resource start and finish dates.

Model consumable resources by deriving quantity from task work and using a conversion factor to proportion resource use with activity effort, linking quantity to rate for automatic updates.

Assign costs to permanent and consumable resources by defining labor standard rates, time units, and cost and income rates, then apply these to activities and cost centers.

Create allocation groups to bundle consumable and permanent resources into a location group model, enabling automatic cost and quantity calculations across similar activities.

Learn to work with non-linear allocations, comparing linear cost and effort to non-linear allocations. Visualize daily resource usage with histograms and adjust curves and profiles to allocate resources.

Explore the resource breakdown structure (RBS) to adjust allocations, view the bar chart, and resolve overallocation by reassigning tasks to available resources and addressing unassigned tasks.

Identify resource overallocation using a resource view and histograms, then level resources by automatically moving overlapping tasks or using manual leveling when needed.

Save the current speech as a table, name it, and assign a category to organize and apply it to bar charts and spreadsheets across projects.

Learn to create and save custom views in the project, using save as, rename views, assign views to cost categories, and tailor tables, bar charts, and filters while preserving changes.

Set auto height for tasks and use color ranges to distinguish locations and costs, with minimum and maximum allocations (2–20) and costs (100–5000).

Modify and create calendars, display holidays, overtime, and weekends, and use shading and timeline grids to visualize daily, weekly, and monthly information.

Analyze the critical path to see how delays impact the project end date, and compare free float and total float.

Learn to add lead and lag durations between tasks in Asta Powerproject Advanced using bar-chart links, start-to-start, and finish-to-start relationships. Adjust offsets in days or percentages and review link properties.

Set specific start or finish dates for tasks with constraints such as start on or after, start on, finish on or before, and finish on, to force scheduling on dates.

Apply backward planning in Asta Powerproject Advanced to meet a required finish date by rescheduling tasks, adjusting start and finish dates, and identifying negative float.

Create task pools for similar tasks to save planning time, reuse them across projects, then drag and drop pooled activities into a project with attributes, costs, and resources applied.

Learn to create and customize formulas in the support project using the library explorer, including cost-based calculations, conditional traffic lights, and linking duration to project totals.

Asta Powerproject Advanced shows how to create repetitive activities by selecting a task type, setting durations and gaps, naming the activities, and generating repeated items on the box chart.

Split and merge tasks in Asta Powerproject Advanced by dividing activities into two or more tasks using duration, percentage, or a date, then join activities to manage the critical path.

Configure user access in Asta Powerproject by creating security groups, assigning them to users, and defining passwords and access levels for projects and code library.

In this advanced module, modify task duration and start dates with the object edit toolbar by adjusting dates by two days, changing durations, or applying a percent change.

Learn how to exchange information between Asta Powerproject files by copying buildings and phases from a source project to a target project, and paste them to create updated charts.

Learn to display per-task information in the spreadsheet by selecting a task, adding duration, start date, and finish date columns, and configuring task-specific settings to show each activity's details.

Edit task duration and cost on the spreadsheet by performing calculations, adding or subtracting values, applying percentage changes, and dividing durations to update activities.

Create and modify calendars to assign tailored work patterns and exceptions to tasks and resources, including six-day weeks and nine-hour days, with color-coded working and non-working times.

Create and customize company templates to standardize locations, resources, and calendars, then reuse them to rapidly initialize new projects with prebuilt cost views and reports.

Create and manage user defined fields in a project to store extra information, such as installation dates, contract details, or block numbers, using various data types and columns.

Link project resources and tasks to external web pages by creating a user defined field named web page, saving the project, and pasting hyperlinks opened with alt.

Create baselines by capturing a copy of the entire project at a point in time, including tasks, links, libraries, resources, locations, annotations, and histograms, then view or compare baselines.

Learn how to create and manage baselines for a project, import and set a baseline as current, and compare project progress against baseline using finish variance and duration differences.

Reverting to a baseline in Asta Powerproject Advanced covers selecting a baseline, applying changes, and reworking the project to match the baseline to analyze progress and scenarios.

Merge new and changed data into an existing baseline by linking new activities, then apply a full update to add new data and edit existing tasks.

Record project progress at intervals, establish a baseline, and prepare progress periods to compare actual start and finish with planned dates using bar charts and shading in Asta Powerproject Advanced.

Explore how to mark progress in the Park Project using multiple entry methods, including percentage, duration, speech, and right-click, and compare duration versus overall percent complete.

Master progress entry mode in Asta Powerproject Advanced by managing overall process complete, choosing between progress line and step-based duration updates across weeks.

Learn to lock progress periods in Asta Powerproject Advanced, preventing users from updating historic or future progress for selected tasks or weeks, via the right-click lock option.

Learn to track progress from allocations when multiple resources work at different rates, by entering progress on allocations for bricklayers and laborers to update the overall percent complete.

Enter progress in Asta Powerproject Advanced by updating task work and actual task work against the baseline, recording duration, percent complete, and weekly updates to reschedule.

Compare planned cost to actual cost using histograms and baseline data to visualize budget performance. Interpret blue (planned) and red (actual) cost lines to assess schedule and CPI.

Apply line of balance method to plan construction work and production rates for repetitive activities in linear projects, assigning wall and plastering tasks to dedicated teams across floors.

Analyze location allocations with histograms by assigning permanent site resources, bricklayers, carpenters, roofers, and steel features, and customize histograms to display availability, allocation, and over-allocation.

Create resource reports in the library explorer, including cost allocation and permanent allocation reports. Configure time slicing, baseline comparisons, currencies, date ranges, filters, and Excel outputs with customizable table styles.

Explore how to generate tabular reports using library explorer and tobler reports, choosing from exact, printer, and nation report formats, and previewing outputs before printing.

Create a new tableau report from scratch in Asta Powerproject Advanced by choosing category, report type, columns, and applying filters, time units, and scope.

Push data from a support project to Excel and create custom tabular reports, configuring columns, currencies, charts, and templates to build comprehensive project dashboards.

Develop tabular reports for RBS and CBS by aligning labor cost and direct cost from cost centers and permanent allocations, showing project cost and resource breakdown.

Prepare your project for risk analysis by identifying high-risk tasks, estimating most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic durations, and applying latin hypercube or Monte Carlo methods to assess time and cost.

Run risk analysis in Asta Powerproject Advanced by setting scope, applying filters, selecting distributions (uniform, normal, triangle), choosing Monte Carlo or Latin hypercube sampling, and generating sensitivity and likelihood reports.

Create baselines from risk analysis iterations and compare them to the current schedule, choosing the best baseline to apply while saving under a new name to avoid losing the project.