How to use multiple baseline

A

alan

How to use other baselines in Tracking Gantt and Project
information-Statistics? Project always apply default
basaeline.

Thnaks a lot.
 
D

Dale Howard

Alan --

To use other baseline fields in the Tracking Gantt view, double-click
anywhere in the white part of the Tracking Gantt Chart itself. In the Bar
Styles dialog box, replace every Baseline field to your desired Baseline
field in both the From and To columns. Click OK and the Tracking Gantt will
now show your new baseline. If you are proficient in VBA programming, you
could write a macro to set the Baseline field used in the Tracking Gantt
view to your choice. Hope this helps.
 
A

alan

Thanks a lot.

Is it possible we copmpare baselines other than default baseline in Project
information-Statistics?

Alan

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Alan --

To use other baseline fields in the Tracking Gantt view, double-click
anywhere in the white part of the Tracking Gantt Chart itself. In the Bar
Styles dialog box, replace every Baseline field to your desired Baseline
field in both the From and To columns. Click OK and the Tracking Gantt will
now show your new baseline. If you are proficient in VBA programming, you
could write a macro to set the Baseline field used in the Tracking Gantt
view to your choice. Hope this helps.
 
D

Dominic Moss

Alan,

To take Dales suggestion one step further you could create a new view which
displays various baselines rather than change the default Gantt Chart view,
you could create a series of views each one comparing a version of the
Baseline with either another Baseline version or even the current schedule.
The advantage of creating a new view is that it can be used again and again
and even shared between projects, if you save it to the enterprise global
file it is then available to all users in perpetuity.

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www.projectability.co.uk

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D

Dale Howard

Alan --

First of all, to Dominic: thanks for the good followup suggestion. Alan,
if you want to create your own view that shows current project values
compared to your current baseline, you should probably also create one or
more custom fields to calculate the variance in the project. Most folks
want to track date variance, cost variance, and work variance. The default
Start Variance, Finish Variance, Cost Variance, and Work Variance columns
calculate the current state of the project agains the default Baseline
field, however.

If you wanted to calculate finish variance against your new baseline, you
might use a custom Date field and create a formula that displays the
difference between the Finish field and the BaselineX Finish field, where X
is the number of the baseline field your are currently using. I have
actually created three separate Tables to show current variance against my
current basline. I made copies of the Cost, Work, and Variance tables and
then added columns with the custom formulas in them. Hope this addendum
helps!
 
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