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The Schedule page turns your Primavera P6 exports into a Gantt chart you can read without opening P6 — and, once you’ve uploaded more than one revision, into a record of what changed between them.

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Getting a schedule into Brink

Schedules come from Primavera P6 XER exports.
1

Pick the project

Set your active project first, from the project switcher in the top bar. Schedules belong to a project — that’s what lets Brink diff each new export against that project’s history.
2

Upload the XER

Go to the Documents page, click Upload files, and choose your .xer export. Brink recognises it and routes it into the schedule pipeline rather than the normal document flow.
3

Open the Schedule page

Your latest snapshot renders as a Gantt chart. Upload the next export the same way and it becomes the new latest snapshot, diffed against the one before it.
Re-uploading an export that’s byte-for-byte identical to the previous one doesn’t create a new snapshot — nothing changed, so there’s nothing to diff.
If nothing has been uploaded yet, the page reads: “No schedule ingested yet. Upload a P6 XER export from the Documents page to see it here.”

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Reading the chart

Activities are grouped by WBS. Each row shows the activity’s code and name on the left and its bar on the timeline, with the date range and either critical or its remaining float called out beside the bar. The legend explains the colours:
Ghost bars are the point. Once you have two or more exports, every activity that moved is drawn twice — once where it is now, once where it used to be. Slip is something you see rather than something you have to hunt for.

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Expand for the full picture

Click the chart, or the Expand button in the header, for a near-fullscreen view at a fixed day scale with a sticky activity column. Four summary cards sit above it:
  • Range — the schedule’s first start to its last finish
  • Span — total days
  • WBS groups — how many groups the schedule is broken into
  • Critical — how many activities sit on the critical path
Press Escape or click the backdrop to close it.

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What changed between revisions

Each new export is compared against the previous one, and the differences are flagged as findings — worst first — and surfaced on your Daily page under On the schedule, as a banner reading “schedule revision flagged — N findings (M high) in the export file”. Brink looks for:
Calendar swaps, shrunk durations, and negative lag are flagged high for a reason: they move a finish date without any activity visibly moving. They’re the changes a Gantt chart alone won’t show you.

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Schedule on the Daily page

The On the schedule section of the Daily page shows the activities landing in the day or week you’re looking at, each tagged Schedule with its project, WBS, and finish date, flagged critical or with its remaining float — along with the revision banners described above.

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Which day is “today”?

Schedule days follow the jobsite’s calendar, not your browser’s. That comes from the project’s site timezone, falling back to your organization’s default. When the two differ, a Site time: … badge appears in the page header so you know which clock the days are being counted on.

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Asking about the schedule

Schedule data is part of your company brain, so you can ask about it directly in Chat:
  • “Which activities slipped in the latest schedule revision?”
  • “What’s on the critical path in the next 30 days?”
  • “Show me activities with negative float”