baseline vs actual task report

[Carey]

I would like to generate a report with baseline dates vs actual dates.
However, I do not want to see the actual future dates if the start date has
not occurred. Whick report can use that will give me that information along
with the gant chart?

 

[John]

I would like to generate a report with baseline dates vs actual dates.
However, I do not want to see the actual future dates if the start date has
not occurred. Whick report can use that will give me that information along
with the gant chart?

Carey,
Why not use the Tracking Gantt with a filter to only show tasks up to
the current date?

John
Project MVP

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

How can there be "actual future dates?" An actual date is one that has
actually transpired and unless you have a time machine that cannot be in the
future. Things that have happened are actuals. Things that haven't
happened are forecasts.

 

[Carey]

Steve, I agree. However, MS Project 2003 produces the actual future dates in
the variance report. Do you know of a report that will give me only the
actual dates that have passed? Your comment does not answer my question. I
want to be able to produce a report that shows the base line start and finish
dates and the actual dates that have transpired for all task but leave the
actual dates that have not transpired blank. Any help you can provide will
be appreciated.

Carey

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Take a look at the Tracking Table in the Gantt chart view - if you add
columns for the Baseline Start and Baseline Finish what do you need that's
not listed there? Or perhaps a custom table showing Base and Actual starts
and finishes. (The Actual fileds are blank for work that has not yet been
done.) Or a thrid option is to substitute the Actual Start and Actual
Finish fields for the plain Start and Finish fields in a copy of the
variance table.

BTW, the stock variance report is not showing "actual future dates." It's
showing Actual Dates for work that has been done and *forecast* dates for
work that has not been done.
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Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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