Progress bars & baseline bars
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Jonathan WardMember for 19 years 8 months
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Good afternoon all,
Here is my deliema; we have a baselined, resource loaded schedule that we and the client are happy with. However, within my Gant Chart view I would like to show progress within (small thin blue bar) the baseline bar, currently I am able to do this as long as the baseline bar is inline with the Datadate line,, HOWEVER,, what if my baseline bar is sitting in November and (today being the 23rd July) for some reason we have completed that task this week?, obviously the baseline bar stays in November but the progress bar sits on or to the left of the data date line,, what I would like to happen is this,,, the progress bar moves out to the basline bar where it sits within it (still in November represnting the planned dates), the actual starts and finish dates STILL remain as July BUT the data date (or progrees – I think it is called) line moves directly to the right to indicate the ‘progress’ then directly back in to the current date.
As always, any help that anyone could be would be hugely appreciated.
Many thanks
Jon
Here is my deliema; we have a baselined, resource loaded schedule that we and the client are happy with. However, within my Gant Chart view I would like to show progress within (small thin blue bar) the baseline bar, currently I am able to do this as long as the baseline bar is inline with the Datadate line,, HOWEVER,, what if my baseline bar is sitting in November and (today being the 23rd July) for some reason we have completed that task this week?, obviously the baseline bar stays in November but the progress bar sits on or to the left of the data date line,, what I would like to happen is this,,, the progress bar moves out to the basline bar where it sits within it (still in November represnting the planned dates), the actual starts and finish dates STILL remain as July BUT the data date (or progrees – I think it is called) line moves directly to the right to indicate the ‘progress’ then directly back in to the current date.
As always, any help that anyone could be would be hugely appreciated.
Many thanks
Jon
3 replies
Oldest first- 0Rafael Davila ·Jonathan
I use SureTrak and do not have P6 but I explored the software for 2 weeks. I still have a copy of the manual the license owner gave me to help him. What you are asking I can easily do with SureTrak and with PowerProject seems like a walk in the park with some additional goodies as a jagged progress line.
It occurs to me you can do it with the Baseline as a separate project.
1.Detach your Original Baseline.
2.Create a Copy of your Original Baseline. Set New Baseline Copy update setting to manual, not auto.
3.Reattach your Original Baseline.
4.Update percent completes on your New Baseline Copy but do not reschedule. Never reschedule, just update percent complete or remaining duration.
5.Manually draw your New DD line; a red vertical line should do it.
Can you see what you wanted? Try updating just a couple of activities before going on with the remaining.
Best regards,
Rafael
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