Engineering & construction extensions
Offline Sync Protocol, Hard-Dependency Gantt, and RFI Workflows.
The three extensions in the Engineering & Construction preset are for work that happens away from a desk, on a schedule where one slip moves everything.
Offline Sync Protocol
Where your workspace has the new organization tools switched on, the Offline Sync Protocol (Site Work) is part of Jobsite, and the Hard-Dependency Gantt is a Planning rule on Timeline. See Jobsite: Today, the diary, materials and Site Work and Timeline: dependencies, the critical path and the strict rule.
Adds a mobile-first Field tab to a project that keeps working with no signal. Edits queue on the device and flush when connectivity returns.
- Replaying the same queue is recognised as a duplicate, not applied twice.
- A stale edit comes back as a surfaced conflict carrying both values and a plain sentence explaining it - never a silent overwrite.
- Conflict resolution
- Last write wins, surface the conflict (or: server always wins).
- Days of data to cache
- 14.
Conflicts are surfaced for a person to resolve. Nothing is auto-merged - on a site, the wrong merge is worse than the question.
Hard-Dependency Gantt
This one has no tab of its own: it changes how the Gantt behaves. Without it, the Gantt flags dependency conflicts and never moves anyone's dates. With it, finish-to-start is enforced.
- An illegal drag is refused or warned about.
- A legal move cascades downstream, preserving each task's duration.
- A scheduled sweep ripples real slips and writes an audit row per move, so every change can be traced to its cause.
- Notify downstream assignees on a shift
- On.
- Skip weekends when shifting
- On.
- Plan
- Dependencies are on the Team plan and above.
The scheduled ripple honours both of those settings. A cascade triggered by dragging a bar currently runs on the extension's defaults rather than your saved settings - worth knowing if you've changed them.
RFI Workflows
Adds an RFIs tab to the project and a Related RFIs panel to task detail: a numbered per-project register with attachments, an ordered approval chain and a full lifecycle - submitted → under review → answered → closed - with each RFI linked to the tasks it affects.
- Require an attachment to submit
- On.
- Response target (days)
- 7.