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# What are execution phases?

Execution phases are the phases a site can be in: excavation, foundations, sewerage, brickwork, painting, and so on. If you mark the execution phase on a planning item, you get a **separate display** in the [dayplanning](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/dayplanning-general-1ohthp5/) that shows per phase which projects are in it. Handy if you read your planning by site phase rather than by employee.

## Settings

Before you can use execution phases, you switch them on:

1. Go to **Settings > Projects > Master data**.
2. Switch on the **Execution phase** setting.
3. Click through on the setting to create your execution phases. For each phase you fill in a **Name**, and optionally a **Planning group** with which you bundle the phases in the dayplanning.

| The groups are shown alphabetically in the dayplanning. Put a number in front of the name if you want to determine the order yourself.

![Creating execution phases](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/e/a/d/f/eadf6dec760ec000/image_pneyf3.png)

## Use

On a [planning item](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/creating-a-planning-item-in-the-dayplanning-1uabutd/), select the **execution phase** you want. If you want to add extra explanation, also fill in the **Execution phase detail** field. You can have that field shown on the planning item in the dayplanning.

![Execution phase on the planning item](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/e/a/d/f/eadf6dec760ec000/image_8p5mrq.png)

Then go to the dayplanning and choose the **Execution phase** planning module. You get an overview of all existing execution phases with the planning items attached to them, [grouped](https://support.robaws.com/en/article/dividing-your-dayplanning-into-different-groups-1t3hnsb/) according to the planning group you have entered.

![Execution phase on the dayplanning](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/e/a/d/f/eadf6dec760ec000/image_1bu18gz.png)