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How YourCA works, step by step.

The builder sent a new programme?

  1. Open Schedule and press Programme on the band.
  2. The tab itself opens on This week, because the daily question is who is where tomorrow. The line under the band there says which revision came in, and links to it.
  3. On a job with no programme yet, drop the file on the space Programme shows you, or press Choose the file.
  4. For a reissue, drag the file anywhere onto the page. Or press Read in a reissue on the band. On a phone, use Read in a reissue.
  5. Programme opens on the builder file itself, drawn on the tab, not downloaded. The line above it says which revision you are looking at, when it reached you, and how many of your activities the last reissue changed.
  6. Programme has four sub-sections. The programme is the builder file, and Programme opens there. Our activities is your own lines with their dates. What moved is the list of changes. Every revision is the whole sequence, with the file behind each one.
  7. YourCA reads CSV, TSV and XER as text. It opens an Excel workbook here in the browser, and you pick the sheet its rows are on.
  8. YourCA reads a PDF itself. It gives back rows for you to check, and says plainly what it could not read. Nothing loads over the job until you confirm it.
  9. A .mpp file is Microsoft Project's own binary format. YourCA refuses it by name, and tells you what to ask the builder for instead.
  10. YourCA keeps the file itself as well as the dates it read from it. It files it on the Documents tab as a programme, and the revision points at it. The bar chart and the title block are still there when somebody argues about the numbers.
  11. Each reissue supersedes the one before it there, as a drawing revision does. Nine reissues are one series, not nine loose rows.
  12. If the read is refused, nothing is filed. If YourCA could not store the file at all, the dates still go in. The confirmation then says the file was not kept.
  13. Everything on this tab names the work, not the builder code. A row reads hydraulic rough in, with H-3300 under it in small text. The change list, the confirm queue, the set-aside list and the predecessor column all work the same way.
  14. If the builder gave an activity no name, the reference comes first instead, because it is then the only true thing on the row.
  15. YourCA keeps the code and does not hide it. You quote it back to the builder, and they look it up when you phone. But you do not scan a list by it.
  16. When a revision arrives, the important part is the list of what moved, by how many days, and which of your activities it affects.
  17. To show that to somebody in a programme dispute, press Download on What moved and pick PDF, Word or Excel. It carries what moved against the revision before, and your activities with their dates, on your letterhead.
  18. It states the change. It does not say whether you are owed anything for it.
  19. When you confirm which activities are yours, that also feeds Procurement. Open a line on the Procurement tab. Link it to an activity under Programme and dates. YourCA then reads its required-on-site date from the programme, so you do not type it.
  20. If a change compresses your work or moves it into another trade, write a note on the day you see it. Do not wait until you feel it a month later.
  21. Loading a programme and deciding which activities are yours is a separate permission. The owner, the office and a project manager have it.
  22. A foreman and a field worker can open the tab and read it, but cannot change it. A revision replaces the dates that everybody else on the job works from.
Worth knowing

You did not write the programme, and you are not responsible for the rest of the site. What matters is the record of what changed and when you were told.