To get back to the schedule settings, click the Schedule Properties icon 
, or select from the menu bar. This window is divided into a set of four core sections: Properties, Dates, Displays, and Formatting.
Properties Tab
The Properties tab is where basic settings are changed.
Project Title
The Project Title will display at the top center of the canvas. Deleting it from the canvas will turn it off in the Displays tab.
Project Start
This text displays in a yellow box at the project start date.
Project Completion
This text displays on the canvas in a yellow box at the project completion date.
Project Completion Type
If Fixed, the project completion will remain at whichever date it is entered or placed graphically; if Calculated, it will track automatically with the last activity in the network. Any milestones or benchmarks after the project completion will not track along.
Criticality Threshold
The Criticality Threshold determines at what point an activity is displayed as critical. If the threshold is set to 5, for example, then an activity will be critical when its float is less than or equal to 5. If critical, the activity displays red. If greater than the threshold, the activity is non-critical and displays in green.
Criticality Factor
The Criticality Factor field determines how the critical path is calculated. By default, criticality is based on float but may be changed to drift or total float.
Setting the Criticality Factor to Float will show criticality of the network as calculated by the number of days an object can slide later in time before affecting the project completion date or possibly creating negative float to connected benchmarks.
Setting the Criticality Factor to Drift will show criticality of the network as calculated by the number of days an object can backslide earlier in time before affecting the project start or possibly creating negative drift to connected benchmarks.
Setting the Criticality Factor to Total Float will show the critical path as calculated by the sum of the number of days an object can slide later and backslide earlier in time before affecting the project start and project completion dates or creating negative float or drift to connected benchmarks.
Dates Tab
The Dates tab contains all date related fields.
Time Unit
If PolyTime is enabled, the user will have the option of scheduling in time units other than days. Changing the time unit may have a significant impact on the schedule. See PolyTIme for more details.
Calendar Start and End Dates (of the Canvas)
When NetPoint begins, the Calendar Dates will default to 6 months before and 12 months after today’s current date. These become the left-most and right-most edges of the canvas. They determine the maximum possible range in which the project itself may take place.
A long project can only take place if the time unit is reasonably high or if the size of the canvas is sufficiently large. Otherwise, the width of a time unit would be less than the width of a pixel on screen, and input from the mouse would no longer translate accurately on the canvas. Factors which affect the ratio of pixels to time units are:
- Schedule time unit
- Duration of the schedule (calendar start and end dates)
- Size of the canvas (page size chosen for print)
- Print Tiling
- Monitor resolution
If any of the above factors are changed which result in a schedule with less than one pixel per time unit, the Resolution Violation Alert window will open until the situation is corrected.
The Calendar Dates may be changed by clicking the down arrow 
button to open a visual calendar picker, or by entering the date fields in MM/DD/YYYY format.
The dates may also be modified graphically. If an activity or milestone is dragged on the canvas to a date outside the calendar start and end, the calendar will adjust automatically by expanding. If there is a zero-gap link between the project start and any activities or milestones, pulling the project start earlier will also trigger the automatic calendar adjustment.
NOTE: The calendar will not adjust automatically if moving it earlier would place a zero-gap successor on a non-working day according to its calendar.
Tip: When using the calendar picker, months and year can be changed more quickly by directly selecting their text.
Ordinal Calendar
The Ordinal Calendar option displays the calendar strips by sequence instead of by unit. For example, months will show up as 1, 2, etc. instead of January, February, etc.
Select the Ordinal Start checkbox to initiate the ordinal function. The sequence will count from the date in the now enabled dropdown (set to the project start date by default). To modify the start date, type in a new date or click the down arrow button to open the visual calendar picker.
Project Start and Completion Dates
Next, set the Project Start and Project Completion dates that will display as yellow boxes (with vertical lines). The project start and completion dates must lie within the calendar dates.
In order to view the entire project start and completion boxes on the canvas, set the calendar dates to well outside the project dates.
Or, click Autofill to match the project start and completion dates to one time unit after and one time unit before the respective calendar dates.
NOTE: The Autofill button will be disabled once any objects are added to the canvas to prevent accidental modification to the network.
Displays Tab
The Displays tab contains aesthetic properties that have strictly on/off functionality; control is achieved via checkbox.
Project Title
Selecting this check box will hide or show the project title on the canvas.
Holiday Line
NetPoint will display a red line at the top of the canvas with a notch for each holiday. The name of the holiday is also displayed, in blue, by hovering over it with the mouse cursor. The holiday line is based on whatever calendar is set as the default for new activities.
NOTE: The holiday line cannot be displayed when working with time units larger than days and will be disabled accordingly.
Grid Numbers
Selecting this checkbox will display numbers at each horizontal gridline on the canvas.
Project Start/Project Completion
Selecting these checkboxes displays the project start or project completion boxes on the canvas. Display may also be controlled by right-clicking on the canvas or on the flags themselves.
Current Data Date
Selecting this checkbox will display the current data date on the canvas.
Old Data Dates
Selecting this checkbox will display the previous data dates in grey on the canvas.
Strips and Sightlines
Selecting the checkboxes in the Calendar Strips list-box will display the time units in the rulers at the top of the canvas. Checking the boxes for Sightlines will place vertical gridlines on the canvas background.
Formatting Tab
The Formatting tab contains aesthetic properties that have multiple options.
Colors
The Canvas Color, Calendar Strips Color, and the Strip Text Color can all be changed here.
To change a color, click the down arrow button anywhere the Color field shows up and choose from the list. Any colors already used in the schedule will appear. To choose from a palette or define a custom color, select More.
After clicking More, the Custom Color Palette window will open.
To create a custom color, click in the rainbow color area; the selected color displays below in the Color/Solid box.
To select a darker or lighter tone, move the arrow up and down along the vertical slider bar to the right.
Click the Add to Custom Colors button and the new color displays in the Custom Colors area and is ready to be selected just the same as the basic colors above.
Click OK to apply the color and close the window.
Once chosen for the first time, any basic or custom color will be displayed in the dropdown list for future selections.
Strip text size
Choose a size or leave as default.
NOTE: Changing the strip text size does not trigger an undo snapshot. If the strip text size is changed and then the Undo icon
is pressed, the text size will remain the same and whatever action was taken prior to changing the text size will be undone.
Grid Spacing
This determines how much vertical space there is between the horizontal gridlines, but it will not actually stretch the canvas (increase or decrease its height). The maximum allowed value is determined by the current size of the page and the positions of existing objects within the chart.
The grid spacing can only be increased if the last gridline is unoccupied. If objects already exist on the last gridline, then the grid spacing cannot be increased unless the objects are moved higher.
The default grid spacing of 0.500 inches allows activities with single line descriptions to be displayed with both the duration and the float block without the chance of overlapping text (with a global text size of petite). A grid spacing of 0.350 inches allows activities with single line descriptions to be displayed with either the duration or the float block, but not both (with a global text size of petite). Smaller spacings should only be used by experienced users who are aware of the possibilities of text overlap and are creating a customized schedule layout.