Progress Spotlight

Alexandre

I used P3 and still use SureTrak, both with the same spotlight function, I never use the spotlight curtain, I use a 2 updating periods look-ahead filter and then select for updating only those with actual progress using the remaining duration rather than percent complete.

Although without any experience on the use of this functionality I suspect that Spotlight is only an optional pre-requisite before you update progress; it changes the data date, only highlights activities for updating but does not selects them for updating. Then after you select and run update progress it will proceed with updating estimating progress within update period depending on your selection on either "all activities" or "selected activities".

If you omitted using the update period function then maybe you just changed the DD and updated only the Start Date of the selected activity, if you did not changed Remaining Duration then the original Remaining Duration kept being 10 days after your new Data Date.

Hope this can provides you with a hint to get you closer to the answer you are looking.

Best regards,
Rafael

Rafael,
thank your for your answer; your advices are always of high quality
after a few more trials and errors, I suspect that the Progress Spotlight curtain is acting like Schedule when you check the actual start on activities
it works well when AS is not checked, I mean it computes progress from the Early Start to the New Data Date; when the Actual Start is checked and no Percent Complete or Actual Duration is entered, it mimics Schedule and makes the activity longer of the delay between New DD and AS
Best regards,
Alexandre

Alexandre,

In SureTrak (similar to P3 but not equal) it seems like progress spotlight is just a highlighter, it has no effect on the update but helps you to select highlighted activities for updating.

After Progress Spotlight under Update Progress if:

a) You select to apply progress to “all activities”, highlighted activities under Progress Spotlight will be updated because it happens that highlighted activities are the same to “all activities”.

b) You select to apply progress to “selected activities” and no highlighted activity is selected it will not apply progress to highlighted activities and move the data date. Note there is a menu for selecting highlighted activities under Edit Menu, in SureTrak, not sure about P3.

Best regards,
Rafael

Alex,

I may suggest that you compare the function of "Progress Spotlight" when using it in your Baseline Schedule and your Current Schedule.

In order to get planned progress on a certain period, you have to derived it from your baseline schedule using automatic updates, here you can make use of the spotlight.

While in your current schedule, I supposed the spotlight (that spans on a period), will not do anything until you press F9.

cheers