Setting new baseline

[nickc]

O.K. I must be overlooking something simple. I planned the project up to
July with the original baseline. I have added additional tasks taking me
out several months, and would like to set a new baseline for those new tasks.
I went to tools tracking - set baseline- baseline 1 -selected tasks and
nothing happened. Still shows NA, did not take the start/finish dates and
move them to baseline. I then tried this for the entire project (baseline 1)
and still no change. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Are you looking at Baseline or Basline1 fields? The default for most views
is to show Baseline0 Start, Baseline0 Finish, etc.

Best practice when saving baselines is to:

1) Save the baseline to Baseline0
2) Copy the Baseline0 data > Baseline1 (Tools > Tracking > Save Interim Plan)
3) For future changes, save the selected tasks + summary tasks to Baseline0,
making a new composite baseline.
4) Then copy Baseline0 to Baseline2

Repeat as necessary.

This means that Baseline0 is always the most current one (thus driving many
of the default views) and Baseline1-10 are the historical records of the
composite baseline at any point of time.

-A

 

[nickc]

Thanks Andrew

Are you looking at Baseline or Basline1 fields? The default for most views
is to show Baseline0 Start, Baseline0 Finish, etc.

Best practice when saving baselines is to:

1) Save the baseline to Baseline0
2) Copy the Baseline0 data > Baseline1 (Tools > Tracking > Save Interim Plan)
3) For future changes, save the selected tasks + summary tasks to Baseline0,
making a new composite baseline.
4) Then copy Baseline0 to Baseline2

Repeat as necessary.

This means that Baseline0 is always the most current one (thus driving many
of the default views) and Baseline1-10 are the historical records of the
composite baseline at any point of time.

-A