This view gives you a much more detailed view of the schedule than Network Diagram when you need to perform mass edits on groups of activities, or update the schedule. It is also the only view that you can setup Comparisons in. The left side of the screen shows the Activity List which lists every activity (that isn't filtered) and it's details in a table. You can configure the Activity List to show just about any detail of every activity as well as how it organizes them by activity codes. The right side of the screen contains all of the activities from the Activity List shown on a timescale optionally showing their relationships with other (non-filtered) activities.

Using the Activity List

The Activity List has the ability to do more than just display activity information in a table, it makes editing details of multiple activities easier through the use of Fill Cell and integration with the Activity Editor. It also has all the same activity selection capabilities as Barchart and Network Diagram views.

Anytime you have activities selected while in Barchart view, you always have one "focused" activity in your selection (in the case of only one activity selected, the selected activity is the focused activity). The focused activity is usually (but not always) the first activity you selected from the group. You can determine which activity is the focused activity by looking for the activity with thicker double border around one of the cells in the Activity List of that activity. In the example below, activity 1030 (Install Electrical Conduit) is the focused activity. The cell with the double border (original duration in the example) is the focused cell.

Clicking and dragging from one activity to another in the Activity List selects all the activities between those two activities. The activity you started dragging from will become the focused activity while the last cell you dragged to becomes the focused cell of the focused activity. If you have at least one activity selected, holding down Shift while clicking another activity in the Activity List (or the main Barchart window for that matter) will select all activities between that activity and the focused activity and deselect any previously selected activities not in between those two activities. Holding down Ctrl while clicking on an activity will add that activity to the selection or deselect it if it was already in the selection. While selecting activities with Ctrl, new activities added to the selection will become the new focused activity, and the cell clicked on to select that activity will become the new focused cell.

The focused cell is important for Fill Cell functionality when you have more than one activity selected. Fill Cell comes in handy when you need to change details of multiple activities to the same value (or close to the same value). Fill Cell takes the value of the focused cell and sets all selected activities to the same value. This works with activity durations, descriptions, type, and others. Fill Cell can be accomplished by selecting it from the Edit menu, hitting Ctrl+E, or by right-clicking anywhere in the Activity List, and selecting Fill Cell. In the example above, hitting Fill Cell would change activities 1040 and 1050 to both have an original duration of five.

When only one activity selected, the focused cell is used for integration with the Activity Editor. When you select an activity in the Activity List, you can use the the up, down, left, and right keys to change the focused activity and cell. Hitting left or right changes the focused cell to the column on the left or right. Hitting up or down selects the activity above or below the currently selected activity. When the focused cell is on a column that supports it, anything you type will replace the current value of the focused cell after hitting enter. Once you hit enter, the next activity down is automatically selected next and you can repeat the same steps to change it's values. This means that after you've added new activities to the project, you can easily fill in all of their descriptions or durations by selecting the top activity by clicking on the cell you want to edit, type out it's value, hit enter, type out the next activity's new value, hit enter, and so on making for quick data entry. If you have the Activity Editor open, and the columns you are changing are shown in the Activity Editor (see Activity Editor Options), you'll see the values change as you change them. You will still be able to change the values even if the controls in the Activity Editor are not shown.