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Originally Posted by JulieS
Hi ketanco,
1. You should not be entering dates into Project. Create the tasks and create the links (predecessor/successor) to drive the schedule.
2. You do not need to enter baselines -- once you've finished entering the tasks and making assignments as needed -- you save a baseline through Project Tab > Set Baseline.
3. Actual Start, Actual Finish, Actual and Remaining Duration, and Actual and Remaining Work are used for tracking tasks -- marking progress.
You might benefit from the investment in a good 2-3 day hands on Project class. Project is not a product that is terribly easy to learn on your own and you can develop bad habits (like typing in dates) that will cause you huge amounts of grief later on.
Julie
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in your answer to question 2, when you say "once you finish entering the tasks" do you mean entering the tasks by only giving them durations and relations and looking at start and finish columns? and then you save that instant, as if taking a snapshot, to set a baseline correct? if correct, then why do they have baseline start and finish columns, and even 10 sets of them? if baseline is set by just taking a snapshot, then why do we have those columns?
also by setting basline, you set it for today, or any day you want, and call it basline as of ... date? because on the set baseline as you described, there is not somewhere where you can enter dates. how do you update the baseline date?
as i said i already entered dates to the basline start and finish dates. if i leave them as it is, can they also serve as my baseline anyway? i wont repeat this practice in the future however for just this one, can i just leave the dates i manually entered into baseline start and finish columns?
12-14-2011, 09:00 PM
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