Tasks

Tasks are the basic building blocks of any schedule. In DTS a task generally represent some work associated with a work place, although a task can represent any general unit of work.

Usually tasks are generated by external systems such as Mine2-4D or Studio-5D, but users can also add tasks inside DTS as needed.

A task has the following basic properties:

ID – The unique identifier of the task.
Name – A short identifier for the task that does not have to be unique
Description – The full description of the task
Rate – The production rate at which the task is scheduled (only applies to Fixed Rate) tasks
Duration – The time it will take to complete the task which is scheduled based on the calendar assigned to the task
Start – The scheduled start time of the task
Finish – The scheduled finish time of the task
% Complete – The percentage of work completed. For fixed rate tasks this is based on the actual and total values for the driving production field
Actual Start – The actual start time of the task
Actual Finish – The actual finish time of the task

Additionally the task is assigned values for each of the production fields, code and text fields.