Planning and Forecasting

Topics in this Chapter

Step 1 - Define Production Units

Step 2 - Define the Primary Production Values and Production Units for a

Step 3 - Export your BOQ

Step 4 - Import your Schedule

Trimble Quest does not have a built-in scheduling tool, however, it has a two-way integration built-in with both MS Project and Primavera P6 which allows you to easily link your estimate and your schedule.

The integration allows you to export your estimate to either one of these two tools, where it will provide a lot of the relevant information that you need to set up your schedule, including creating your line items as activities, with their time duration specified as well as their resources attached.

However, in order to be able to export the relevant information to your scheduling tool, Trimble Quest needs two things to be defined for each worksheet: the primary production factor (@p) which we covered previously (Use Primary Production as a Local Variable) as well as the production unit.