The “Relative overdue” column is available in the task tables. What does it mean? Why is this percentage a value but not in days?
The bar shows the percentage of the set maintenance interval that we are late in doing the job. This value helps to decide which task to focus on first if we have several tasks in the list in red.
For example:
In the picture below, we have two pieces of work that have gone over time (red). Now we need to pick one of them. Which one?
The “today’s date” in the picture is 09.06.2025. The task in the first row is 14 days overdue and the task in the second row is 5 days overdue. Simple decision. First task first!
Is this still the case? Let’s activate some additional columns.
After activating the “Relative overdue” column, we see that the task we are 2 weeks late on is only 4% overdue with respect to the interval, while the task we are only 4 days overdue on is 71% overdue with respect to the interval.
Perhaps we should first do the task in the second row, as this task has an interval of 1 week (7 days), and then the task in the first row, which has an interval of 1 year (265 days).
PS! This metric is only displayed for regular tasks. The relative value cannot be calculated (there is no value against which to calculate it) for planned and extraordinary tasks.
The relative value is displayed for the first task in the regular tasks chain. It is not displayed for so-called pre-calculated tasks (place holders in the calendar) that cannot be confirmed today because the previous tasks is not done.