Steelray Delay Analyzer

• Can I Customize the Date Format in Steelray Delay Analyzer?

  | | | --- | | Currently, there is no way to customize date formats. Eventually, we want to offer that ability, but for a shorter-term solution, we have been progressively updating all of the dates in the application to the default P6 format, which uses the name of the month and is relatively una...

• How Can an Activity be on the Longest Path but not be Critical?

  Sometimes, an activity can have float but still be on the longest path.  In almost every case, this occurs because there are multiple calendars on the longest path. Suppose an activity on the longest path is on a 7-day calendar, and its successor is on a standard 5-day calendar (Mon-Fri).  If th...

• How can I see the impact of specific revisions like logic changes?

  In the half-step part of the analysis, we walk through the update period and play back all of the changes, hour by hour, day by day.  From the two XER files, we have actual dates, remaining duration at the start and end of the period, etc., so we can measure the impact of individual changes on th...

• How Can I Silently Install Delay Analyzer? How Can I Push the License Key to a User PC?

  Delay Analyzer can be silently installed from the command line or a Powershell script in the standard way: msiexec /i steelray-delay-analyzer-x.xx.x-setup.msi /quiet /qn By default, the installation folder will be C:\Program Files (x86)\Steelray Software\Steelray Delay Analyzer To automatica...

• How is an Activity's Progress Determined? Does Delay Analyzer use Activity Percent Complete?

  Delay Analyzer does not use Activity % Complete for any of its calculations since that value does not directly affect the calculation of schedule dates; instead, we use Remaining Duration (RD). For every activity, we compare the RD from the first schedule to the RD from the second schedule: If ...

• What are the system requirements for Steelray Delay Analyzer?

  SDA is a Windows desktop application. We recommend a minimum of 8GB RAM and 500MB of free disk space.

• What Scheduling Platforms / File Types are Supported?

  Delay Analyzer is designed for Primavera P6 and supports importing .xer files, which are created by exporting from Primavera P6.

• Why Aren't All Relationship Lines Drawn?

  When designing our Gantt chart, we noticed that Primavera P6 draws all relationship lines, even when the predecessor and successor are so far apart that they can not be on the screen simultaneously. As a result, there are many very long vertical lines that cover the Gantt chart and make it very h...

• Why would a delay of N days cause the project's finish date to move by a different number of days?

  This is simply the way schedules with non-working days behave.  For example: suppose an activity on the critical path that is supposed to finish on a Monday is delayed by one day and finishes on the next day (Tuesday) instead.  Also, suppose that before the delay, the project's finish date was s...