The purpose of this article is to explain how to upload an activity schedule using the CEMAR Admin Panel.
Your ability to access specific contracts can be impacted by the admin rights you have been granted, please review this before proceeding by navigating to your profile in the Admin Panel – Access & Security.
- If you are a Contract Admin with access restricted to specific contracts, you will only be able to access contracts where you have been allocated Admin Rights for
- Changes can only be made where you Contract Access Level is Full Access
If you are unable to complete this admin task due to not having access, please speak to your organisation admins or contact thinkproject support.
Activity Schedule
The following non financial events can be linked to the activity schedule:
- Early Warnings
- Searches
- Defects
- Tests / Inspections
- Technical Queries (NEC) / Requests for Information (FIDIC)
The following financial events can be linked to the activity schedule:
- Quoatations for Compensation Events
- Assessments for Compensation Events
- Quotations for Proposed Instructions
- Quotations for Proposed Instructions / Changed Decisions
- Detailed Claims for Claims
- Contractor Proposals for Variations
- Party 1 Determinations for Variations
- Party 1 Determinations for Claims
The activity schedule is a feature within the Contracts Module of CEMAR that allows a user to breakdown the price of a contract into a detailed list of components, each of which has a price which is summed together to give the overall contract price. Note that currently the price of a contract and the activities don't directly sum in CEMAR, users need to enter in them separately.
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Start by navigating to the Contracts section. Within here, search for the relevant contract you wish to upload the activity schedule and then click on pencil icon on the right to enter the contract:
Next, navigate to the Price tab:
If your contract does not yet use an activity schedule, you may select Start Using Activity Schedule:
To create a new activity category, select the + symbol against Activity Category:
To name your new activity category, select the 3 dots and click Rename:
Once you have entered your activity category name, select Update:
To create a new activity group, select the + symbol against Activity Group:
You may then name your activity group in the same way mentioned above.
Once you have created your activity category and group, you may then add a new activity item, by selecting the + symbol highlighted below:
You will then be displayed with the below pop-out window, whereby you can enter the activity reference, name, description and original price. Once these details have been entered, select Add:
The activity item will then be displayed at the bottom of the page. Should you have multiple activity items, you may wish to utilise the free text search field to locate these:
Should you wish to delete an activity item, select the bin icon. However, if a padlock icon is presented in place of this, you will be unable to delete the activity item as it has already been referenced within the Contract.
You may then view and report on the activity schedule report on a Contract level by navigating to the left-hand expandable menu and selecting Reports > Summary Reports > Activity Schedule:
You will then be displayed with a preview of the report which you may export as you wish: