Ctrl key
Schedule updates, tracking, and reporting for P6 and MS Project
Enable supervisors, contractors, and project teams to update schedules without using Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project.
Track progress, work assignments, and project costs in one platform. Engage with stakeholders, view only the latest schedule with instant data and reports.
Schedule Interaction
Ctrl key supports direct upload of native Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project (MPP) files, including multi-project schedules, allowing teams to interact with live project data without complex scheduling software. Schedules are displayed through an intuitive activity list and industry-standard Gantt chart, providing instant visibility of key information such as activity dates, status, and percentage complete.
Powerful filtering tools make it easy to find the activities, work packages, or project areas that matter most, helping users focus on relevant information quickly. To improve productivity and consistency, Ctrl key automatically saves user preferences and view configurations, ensuring a familiar experience every time the platform is accessed, regardless of device or location.
Schedule Updates
Ctrl key simplifies project schedule updates by allowing supervisors and managers to update activity information through an intuitive web interface. Built-in validation rules and error checking help improve data quality, reducing common reporting mistakes and ensuring more accurate schedule information.
All progress updates follow a structured review workflow, giving planners full visibility of what changed, who made the update, and when it occurred. This creates a clear audit trail, improves accountability, and helps maintain confidence in project reporting. Once approved and incorporated into the master Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project schedule, updates are automatically archived for future reference.
Integrated activity comments enable direct collaboration between project stakeholders, helping teams communicate delays, provide update context, and identify issues early. Progress updates and review records can also be exported for reporting, compliance, and project governance requirements.
Work Tracking
Ctrl key provides a simple way to track labour effort against project schedule activities, giving supervisors visibility of who performed the work, when it was completed, and how many hours were spent. Workers can be easily managed within the platform, and hours can be assigned directly to activities, creating a clear link between planned and actual effort.
Daily work assignments can be captured through an intuitive interface with instant synchronisation, ensuring data remains accurate, current, and protected from loss. Assignments can be quickly edited or updated as project conditions change, providing teams with a reliable record of work completed.
By connecting labour hours directly to schedule activities, Ctrl key helps identify discrepancies between planned and actual effort early, improving progress tracking, forecasting, and project controls. Work assignment data can also be exported by date range or management group, supporting reporting, cost analysis, and contractor management.
Project Governance
Ctrl key provides robust project governance and access control, ensuring users only see the information relevant to their role. Built-in role-based permissions allow organisations to control who can view, edit, export, or manage project data, helping maintain security while supporting collaboration across project teams.
Visibility can be further restricted using management groups, making Ctrl key ideal for projects involving contractors and subcontractors. Internal teams can retain full project visibility, while external parties are limited to their own scope of work, ensuring sensitive information such as labour assignments, expenses, and progress data remains protected.
Permissions can be managed through a simple administration interface, allowing rapid updates as project teams change. Every update, assignment, and modification is fully traceable, creating a complete audit trail that improves accountability, supports compliance requirements, and provides confidence in project reporting.
Cost Tracking
Ctrl key helps project teams track and manage project expenses alongside schedule progress, providing a simple way to record incidental costs against specific work groups or project areas. By linking expenses directly to project execution, organisations gain greater visibility into where money is being spent and can improve overall cost control.
A dedicated sign-off view combines labour assignments and expenses into a single, clear summary, allowing managers, contractors, and stakeholders to review work completed and associated costs in one place. This creates a transparent record of project expenditure and supports accurate financial reporting.
Expense and sign-off data can be exported for any reporting period, providing a detailed summary of total costs for approval and verification. This is particularly valuable for managing subcontractor claims, streamlining sign-off processes, and maintaining confidence in project cost reporting.