Just downloaded the trial version of Asta to see what all the fuss is about. I am finding it really frustrating. Can anyone help?
- Every time I create a new project it always starts with an 18 week lead in. Why? I don't want an 18 week lead in. I just want the start date to be on the far left of the screen rather than in the middle!
- There are lots of tutorials available but none specific to scheduling quantities. For example, let's say that I have a wall to build and that wall is 100m long x 3m high. I want to be able to put these dimensions (either the linear or the m2) into Asta, tell it how long it will take to build or allow it to calculate it for me (but I don't how you would do the latter) and then as the work proceeds starting drawing down the quantities, so that in Week 1, if I input 10m (or 30m2) have been constructed I want Asta to work out the percentages for me and update itself accordingly.
- How do you populate the columns other than start, finish and duration with are obvious. The Add Column function lists lots of columns but I have no idea where the data comes from to populate. For example, I can insert a 'Quantity Column' by Add Column>Resource>Quantity but cannot input any data into it. The data must come from elsewhere. I have no idea where or what I must do to get the column to display the information I need.
Thanks in advance for any advice offered.