Project Fields

• Project Fields
  • Production Fields
  • Code Fields
  • Text Fields
  • Date Fields
  • Summary Fields
  • Internal Fields
  • Material Categories
  • Formula(e)

Data fields are used throughout your scheduling project to carry data of a known type and format.

These fields can contain text or numbers, and can contain the results of calculations, or static (constant) values. There are several categories of fields, each of which configurable via the Project Settings >> Fields menu.

Production Fields

Production fields are used store data such as tons, volumes, lengths, ore grades, impurity grades, direct costs and revenue estimates for tasks.

Production fields are defined using the Production Fields.

Code Fields

Code fields are generally used to categorise tasks into common groups (such as Area, Shaft, Level, Responsibility or Ore Type, for example). Each value for a code field can be assigned a description, colour and pattern. The task bars on the Gantt chart can be coloured based on a code category.

Code fields are configured using the Code Fields Screen.

Text Fields

Text fields can either be whatever you type, that is, the value for each activity can be entered individually, or values can be selected from a list. Text fields can also be calculated from other task fields using formulae.

Text fields are configured using the Text Fields Screen.

Date Fields

Date fields are useful in your project as they can be used to report date-related information. Like code fields and text fields, they can also be calculated using formula (such as date 1 plus duration 1, for example).

Date fields are configured using the Date Fields Screen.

Summary Fields

It can be useful to report separately on the production fields of certain tasks in the Crosstab view.

For example. in the case of an open cast mine where all mining blocks contain production fields for Tons and Fe. However, only some blocks are treated as ore and send to the plant, and the rest to waste dumps. You can do this using summary fields.

Summary fields are configured using the Summary Fields.

Internal Fields

Calculated Rate and Calculated Duration task types (as opposed to Fixed Duration, Fixed Rate, Cyclical and Hammock) are important where production rate need to respond to the values of other properties, such as rock hardness, type of drilling.

You do this using formulae on the Internal Fields Screen.

Material Categories

DTS allows the physical properties of a task (the spatial object related to the task) to be organized by material category.

Using material categories you can do this and manage the associated task as one unit (avoiding numerous production fields), while still accommodating the material from each category being sent to different destinations.

Material categories are managed using the Material Categories.

Formula(e)

Formulae let you calculate values based on other information in your project.

For example, you may want to increase the duration of a particular group of tasks to include a contingency factor made clear from shift pattern reviews, or to adjust a volume to compensate for a standard dilution factor, and so on. You do this by associating formulae with fields, using the Formula Screen.