Rolling back to a specfic baseline

[Venkatesh Kode]

This is with respect to rolling back to a specific baseline.

For instance let us say that we have three baselines for a project plan. i.e
..Baseline, Baseline1 and Baseline 2 because of some changes to plan.

After a certain point of time if we need to rollback i.e.Making one of the
saved baslines current so that the actual progress can be tracked with
respect to that.

For example if i want to rolback to Baseline1 and make it current plan then
there should be a way to copy all the fields of Baseline1 to current.

 

[Jonathan Sofer]

There is no way to have the current schedule revert to a baseline. You can
only take snapshots of the current plan and push it into baselines.

Sorry,

Jonathan

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Venkatesh ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

The only satisfactory way to do this is to save the project at each change
to the baseline, then you can retrieve the one you finally settle on.

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this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
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[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Venkatesh --

Amazingly enough, there IS a way to do what you wish. Before you do this,
however, I am assuming the following about your environment:

1. You saved your original baseline in the Baseline set of fields.
2. After a change control procedure, you saved your new baseline in the
Baseline 1 set of fields.
3. After another change control procedure, you saved your new baseline in
the Baseline 2 set of fields.

To restore a baseline, you would need to do a two-part operation. First,
you would need to back up the original baseline (saved in the Baseline set
of fields) into one of the additional 10 sets of Baseline fields (Baseline1
through Baseline10). Then, you would need to copy the desired baseline
information in Baseline 1-10 into the Baseline set of fields. Here's how:

1. Open the project in question.
2. Click Tools - Tracking - Save Baseline.
3. Select the Save Interim Plan option.
4. Click the Copy pick list and choose the Baseline item from the list.
5. Click the Into pick list and choose the first available Baseline set of
fields (Baseline 3 in your example).
6. Make sure the Entire Project option is selected and then click the OK
button.

The operation "backs up" the baseline information in the Baseline set of
fields into the Baseline 3 set of fields. Next, complete the following
steps:

1. Click Tools - Tracking - Save Baseline.
2. Select the Save Interim Plan option.
3. Click the Copy pick list and choose the Baseline 1 item from the list
(this is based on your example).
4. Click the Into pick list and choose the Baseline item from the list.
5. Make sure the Entire Project option is selected and then click the OK
button.
6. When prompted, click the Yes button.

The above set of steps copies the Baseline 1 information into the Baseline
set of fields and calculates all variance in the project based on this new
information. If you want to use this process, you will need to take a very
disciplined approach to managing baseline information to make sure you don't
lose any of your original baseline information in any of the Baseline sets
of fields. Hope this helps.

 

[Jonathan Sofer]

Correct me if I'm wrong Dale but I think Venkatesh is looking for a way to
push Baseline(x) back into the current schedule. I took this to mean that
if he has a Baseline1 that he wants to be the current schedule that he would
expect to be able to have Baseline1 - Start, Finish, Work, including all
time phased work etc. to be copied into the current - Start, Finish, Work,
including all time phased work, etc.

I don't think this is possible or even logical (when you consider that
scheduled work will be changed to equal actual work once actual work is
posted, so reverting a baseline to the work field in a time phased manner
wouldn't make sense for actualized work)

Jonathan Sofer

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Jonathan --

You took the question one way; I took it another way. Why don't we let
Venkatesh tell us what he really means?

 

[Jonathan Sofer]

Sounds good to me Dale

Jonathan --

You took the question one way; I took it another way. Why don't we let
Venkatesh tell us what he really means?