PS Gantt Intro

The Gantt contains the planned drill, charge, blast, and mining sequences.

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Gantt tab overview

The Gantt tab consists of the following items:

Panels	Purpose

Panels	Purpose
Toolbox	List of schedule actions, such as: Open Sequence Delay Sequence Stockpile Follow Delay Blast
Timeline	Horizontal time axis above the canvas
Canvas	The workspace below the timeline
Lanes Panel	Lists all the lanes for each agent. Select a dashboard to display from the Dashboard field dropdown, or Press the gear icon to configure it as described here. Select lanes to display in the Canvas. Multi-selection option is available, for this hold <CTRL> key and select lanes required. Click on Root to display all.
Lanes	Schedule data aligned to the timeline
Task Bar	A bar in a sequence lane that contains a start time, an end time, as well as a series of tasks to work on in that duration.
Tracks	If two task bars overlap in time, they are separated into tracks. The higher track has priority.
Task Bar State	Colour that shows above a task bar when it is active (work is being performed). If two task bars overlap in time, only one will be active.
Task	An assignment to be drilled, charged, blasted, or mined
Properties	Information about the currently selected item, where you can: change a name, set start and end dates, add notes, assign a color to a bar, review the information on duration of a selected task, tick different display options. More details about the Properties tab see here.

Review main items of the Gantt tab below:

How to use

Agents may be given instructions by dragging a task bar from the Toolbox and into the Gantt.

• Each task bar has a start and end time.

• Agents commence work at the task bar start time.

• Agents work until either (a) all tasks are complete, or (b) the end time is reached.

• Completed tasks are shown in the Sources lane and Destinations lane, in conventional Gantt chart format.

Overlapping tasks are resolved in top-to-bottom priority order. Agents will try to execute the top task bar, then the next down, and so on. If a new task bar starts on a higher track than the current task bar, then the agent will stop the current bar and move up to the higher track.

What makes task bars interesting is that you can queue up a series of tasks (like dig blocks on a bench), that automatically reschedule around other delays like shutdowns or tramming.

If the Shared Agents function is enabled in the Final Configuration step (see here), in the Gantt chart there is a new row called Other User, and in the Scenarios window on the left, there is also a new Shared Agents panel. Every time the other user runs the schedule, it will copy a snapshot of the sequences and scheduling breadcrumbs to the shared directory, which you can see in the other user row. If more than one user is scheduling, you can use the Shared Agents panel on the left to choose which one you want to view.