Timescaled logic Diagrams

P6v8 brings back Timescaled logic diagrams or TSLD, one of the few features that got
lost after P3 . TLSD are used to condense the project schedule displayed in the Gantt
chart into an easier to understand format that provides a snapshot of the entire project
plan hence enabling us to view the entire project as one big picture. TSLDs give a
graphic depiction of activities and the logic of a project against a timescale.

A TSLD can be created to show:

Up to three timescales that appear at the top and bottom of the diagram, and
you can define and format each one

Activity bars according to your formatting

Bars drawn using early or late schedule dates

Bar labels that you select, format, and specify locations for

Special color text on labels for critical activities.

Critical highlighting on bars according to your formatting

Relationship lines connecting activities that are formatted by you so as to more

easily distinguish between the types of relationships

Activities grouped by data elements that you select, including project, WBS Path,
and activity codes

Group activity labels that you format

Activities sorted in ascending or descending order by data elements that you

select

When you create a TSLD, it appears in the TSLD workspace.

TSLD Templates
A TSLD template is a set of configurations which can be stored to save your settings.
The same template can then be used in other projects. When you create a TSLD, the
values associated with the template are applied against the project data to create a
TSLD. Once a template is made it can be used to create a TSLD for any project stored
in Primavera database.

A template can be selected using the Timescaled Logic Diagram Templates dialog box,
which opens automatically with the TSLD workspace. Several sample templates are
already created and can be chosen to view existing projects, sample templates can be
edited to make new templates or new templates can be created from scratch.
Timescaled Logic Diagram Workspace
The TSLD workspace is used to manage templates and create, view, edit, print, and
save TSLDs. To create a TSLD, you must first; start P6 Professional > open the project
or projects for which you want to create a TSLD > then use Tools > Timescaled Logic
Diagram option from the Activities window to export project data for the selected
projects to the Primavera Timescaled Logic Diagram application. Only the filtered
project data that appears in the P6 Professional Activities window gets exported to the
Primavera Timescaled Logic Diagram application.Once you select the projects to export,
the data is exported to the Primavera Timescaled Logic Diagram application, and the
TSLD workspace opens automatically when the data is exported. When the TSLD
workspace opens, you use it to select a template, to modify a template as applicable,
and to create a TSLD (which appears in the TSLD workspace), to modify the diagram,
to print the diagram, or to save the diagram to a graphic format.

A TSLD result can be exported in a number of formats including; JPEG Image (*.jpg) &
Portable Network Graphics (*.png). Doing so saves the diagram to the selected file
format; the associated project data and template settings are not saved. The image is
saved but cannot be opened using the TSLD workspace.

A time-scaled schedule network diagram is essentially a diagram that is used in project

management whenever you are scheduling anactivity. As such, it can be reduced to even
simpler terms in saying that a Time-Scaled Schedule Network Diagram is a fancy term that
is used whenever someone is talking about a project schedule. However, this diagram does
need to be drawn in a rather specific manner in order to be understood by those who are in
project management. This manner will show just how the project management team should
position the project and how long the activity should take, from the very beginning to the
very end of the procedure. Now that you understand what a Time-Scaled Schedule
Network Diagram and what information it should include, you should also know that this
diagram does need to be drawn in a specific manner. It needs to be drawn in the form of
a bar chart. However, there is a very specific type of bar chart you will want to use. It must
include a schedule for network logic. As such, all diagrams will be uniform, which is what is
desirable so that everyone can understand what is taking place.
This term is defined in the 3rd and the 4th edition of the PMBOK.