Frequently Asked Questions

Name: Turbo Chart
Brand: Turbo Chart
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General

Time Location charts are a way of visualising project schedules representing the linear alignment of a project on one axis, and time on the other axis. Schedule activities are then plotted onto the chart according to the locations over which they occur and the dates that the project schedule determines. Different types of shapes, colours and patterns are used to represent the different type of work occurring.

We’ve prepared a short series of videos, under 30mins in total, to help learn more about Time Location charts here: Time Location Charts Mini-Course

Turbo-Chart can work with with the following Scheduling Tools:

Primavera P6 Release 6+ SQL/SQLExpress/Oracle/Oracle XE by connecting to databases available from local P6 clients using privileged adminsitrator passwords
Primavera P6 Release 15+ SQLite Databases
Primavera P6 Release 6+ EPPM databases using Webservices
Primavera P6 XER files (note XER files cannot be synchronised)
Microsoft Project 2010 / 2013 /2016 using *.MPP files
Safran Risk / Safran Project V7 onwards
Asta Powerproject v14+ *.PP files

As well as the above products, Turbo-Chart will work with any data produced in tabular / spreadsheet format.

While TurboChart can be used to create Project Tasks on a Time Location chart, Turbo-Chart does not contain a scheduling engine to generate traditional Critical Path Method analysis.

We have intentionally chosen this for two reasons:

Our approach is that our users continue using Scheduling tools they prefer and are familiar with and are not required to spend significant time and effort in learning yet another Scheduling software tool
By not introducing scheduling capabilities, Turbo-Chart is quick to learn, easy to use and can operate fast!

We hope that Turbo Chart is easy to use, and we don’t expect it will require significant effort or training to use. If you still need help:

Tutorial videos and documentation will be available on our website and also on our YouTube Channel
Sample data is available within Turbo Chart from the HELP>DOWNLOAD SAMPLES menu
Support is available to subscribed customers through their purchasing partner or via email: support@linearprojectsoftware.com

The latest User Guide is available from here

If you still require customised training, please Contact Us for assistance

Purchasing, Support and Maintenance

If you do not subscribe or do not renew your subscription, you will not be able to launch Turbo-Chart or receive updates or receive support

Regardless, your data is yours and stored locally on your machine. It is stored in an open standard (JSON) and can easily be decoded and used by other systems.

No Turbo-Chart data (other than support related issues) are accessed or retained by Linear Project Software.

If you’ve purchased multiple Turbo-Chart annual subscriptions with different renewal dates, we can consolidate these to have a single common renewal date to reduce the administrative effort. The latest renewal date will apply to ensure subscriptions are a minimum of one year, and pro-rate on a monthly basis beyond that.

First check if we already have a partner in the region on our partners page, but we’d still be interested in hearing from you. We expect our partners to be able to do the following:

Promote and market Turbo-Chart to potential customers
Become expert users of Turbo-Chart, and to be able to train users if required
Support customers in using Turbo-Chart

Technical

You should not need full admin rights. We are using a technology called ClickOnce which should allow you to install without full permissions.

More details here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/142dbbz4(v=vs.90).aspx

There may be rare instances where there may be installation issues. As each PC configuration/ IT Dept. settings vary, your own support is best placed to assist with installation issues.

Yes! in fact we’ve created a Paste Wizard that makes copying from P6 to Turbo-Chart as quick and easy as directly connecting to a P6 Database. See our post here for more information.

P6 database connectivity to Turbo-Chart is available to users who have SQLite, SQL Servers and Oracle XE as local databases, or can access databases using P6 Web Services.

We are aware that many organisation deploy P6 via Citrix environments and we do intend to support such environments in the very near future. If your organisation is able to assist in testing & development in such environments, we’d love to hear from you.

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