Baseline Work at the Project Level

[Frederic]

Hi All,

I wish to update the baseline work for a project without doing a "save
baseline" because it will delete some manually entered baselines at a task
level. Is there a way to manually update this information at the project
level: in PWA, in the project server view, all my baselines are set to 0
because - i guess - no "save baseline" has been done by the PMs.

Cheers,
Fred

 

[Frederic]

Just to be a little bit clearer: if i was to do a save baseline, I want the
baseline colum to be saved as entered by the PM and not overwritten with the
Work column...

Fred

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Frederic --

If you want to save a baseline now without overwriting their manually
entered baselines, click Tools - Tracking - Save Baseline and then select
one of the 10 additional Baseline fields called Baseline1 through
Baseline10. Hope this helps.

 

[Frederic]

Hi Dale,

Thanks for this tip. But if the manually entered baseline gets moved in,
let's say Baseline 1, the variance will not be computed against the manually
entered variance ? Additionnaly, This does not solve the fact that the
"project" baseline is not matching the manually entered sum of baseline...

Ciao,
Fred

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Fred --

You can't have it both ways. I believe you seriously erred when you
manually entered baseline information in the first place. Why didn't you
simply click Tools - Tracking - Save Baseline to save the baseline for the
entire project?

I gave you a way around your problem by using a procedure to save a baseline
in one of the alternate Baseline1-10 fields, which will capture the
information you seek. From there you would need to create custom fields to
track the variance against this baseline and also modify the Tracking Gantt
view to show the new baseline information. Hope this helps.