Skip Ahead to:<\/strong><\/p>\n Overview<\/a><\/p>\n Key Features and Options of Advance Scheduling<\/a><\/p>\n Toolbar Options<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n Time Tracking in Advanced Scheduling<\/a><\/p>\n Manual Task’s Work Percent Complete Roll Up to Summary Task<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Advanced scheduling is the advanced version of the simple scheduling module to help you drive your projects more efficiently with new capabilities. <\/a><\/p>\n Prerequisite<\/strong><\/p>\n To access all the advanced features (including Task Types, Dependencies, Constraints, and Critical Path), one must have a supporting license. To know more about the license for advanced scheduling, contact our support team.<\/p>\n Advanced scheduling refers to the use of advanced techniques and tools to plan and manage complex projects. Advanced scheduling includes additional features beyond those of simple scheduling and they are –<\/p>\n For a quick comparison of features between Simple, Default, Advanced Scheduling, and MS Project Plug-in, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In an Advanced scheduling system, tasks can be managed collaboratively in real time, with various options available to help you organize, schedule, and track them efficiently.<\/p>\n The All Tasks<\/strong> drop-down includes options such as\u00a0All Tasks<\/a>,\u00a0My Tasks<\/a>, Critical Path Tasks<\/a>, Milestones<\/a>, Baselines<\/a>, and Hierarchies<\/a>\u00a0options and the More Options contain many features that let you view\u00a0Gantt View<\/a>,\u00a0Assignment Panel<\/a>,\u00a0Dense View,<\/a> Critical Path View<\/a> and\u00a0 Last Failure Details<\/a>\u00a0and other features like\u00a0Remove Filter<\/a>,\u00a0Undo All Changes<\/a>,\u00a0Add Task<\/a>,\u00a0Indent<\/a>,\u00a0Outdent<\/a>,\u00a0Link Task<\/a>,\u00a0Delink Task<\/a>,\u00a0Batch Assign<\/a>,\u00a0Batch Edit<\/a>,\u00a0Column Settings<\/a>, and\u00a0Legend<\/a>.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong>\u00a0The features available in the More Options section depend on the mode that has been selected.<\/p>\n The \u201cTask Actual Tracking Mode<\/strong>\u201d option available while creating a Task Plan form and allows you to select whether to fill in Actual Start, Actual Finish, and Percent Complete on a task manually or drive them through a timesheet.<\/p>\n If the \u201cTask Actual Tracking Mode<\/b>\u201d option is set as\u00a0\u201cManually updated\u201d<\/b>, then the Actual Start, Actual Finish, Actual Hours and Percent Complete fields on a task become editable so that you can enter values in them. As per the values in these fields, the Remaining Hours and the Planned Duration of a task are recalculated.<\/p>\n When you enter Actual Hours, the Percent Work Complete field gets updated accordingly. Similarly, if you update the Percent Work Complete, the Actual Hours field gets updated accordingly. The Actual Hours field is editable only when the resource is allocated for the Task.<\/p>\n When you enter Actual Hours (AH) less than Planned Hours (PH)<\/strong><\/p>\n When Planned Hours is available in the task, and you enter Actual Hours less than Planned Hours, then according to the Planned Hours and Actual Hours, the Percent Work Complete field of the task gets updated and also the Planned Start is copied into the Actual Start field. For Example, if PH is 8 hrs and you enter AH as 4 hours the Percent Work Complete is set as 50%. The entered AH can also be seen in the Assignemnt panel of the task for the allocated resource.<\/p>\n If there is more than one resource allocated to the task and you enter the Actual Hours, then the Percent Work Complete of the task is updated accordingly. The updated Percent Work Complete is flowed down in the Assignment panel for the allocated resources. The AH of the resources is computed as per the PH and Percent Work Complete of the resources. For example, if a task has two resources (each with 100% allocation) and the user enters AH as 6 hrs then 3 hrs is added for each resource.<\/p>\n Please note, if AH is entered in a task and then you allocate one more resource to the task, then the new resource will not have the AH against it.<\/p>\n When you enter Actual Hours (AH) more than Planned Hours (PH)<\/strong><\/p>\n For the Fixed Unit and Fixed Work task type, if the entered AH is more than PH, then the AH is copied into the PH. Now as the PH and AH are the same, the Percent Work Complete field is set as 100% and the task gets closed. The Planned duration of the task is recomputed as per the updated Planned effort. Since the planned duration has changed, the Planned Start and Planned Finish of the task will change accordingly. And the updated Planned Start and Planned Finish are copied into the Actual Start and Actual Finish. The same behavior is followed in the Assignment panel for the allocated resources. To reopen the task, make the Percent Work Complete less than 100%.<\/p>\n Please note, if the Percent Work Complete is 100%, the task gets closed and all the fields become non-editable except the Percent Work Complete and Actual Finish so the only way to open a closed task is to set the Percent Work Complete as less than 100%.<\/p>\n For the Fixed Duration and Fixed Dates task types, if the AH is more than PH, the AH is copied into the PH but the Planned duration does not change. Instead, the % Unit of assignment is changed accordingly.<\/p>\n Also, the tasks of the Task Plan with manual time tracking mode are not shown in the Timesheet as time is entered against them in the Tasks grid only.<\/p>\n Note:<\/b> Currently, you can edit the Actual Finish and Percent Work Complete of a closed task, but this is still under evaluation and is subject to change.<\/p>\n When you first enter time in the Percent Complete field of a task, then by default the Actual Start date of the task is set as the Plan start date of the task. Similarly, when you enter 100% in the Percent Work Complete, the Planned Finish date is set as the Actual Finish date. However, you can change the Actual Start and Actual Finish dates manually. For example, if the Planned Start date and Planned Finish date on a task are 15 July and 20 July respectively then entering a value in the Percent Work Complete field will set its Actual Start date as 15 July. And entering 100% in the Percent Work Complete field will set its Actual Finish date as 20 July (as per the Planned Finish date).<\/p>\n The remaining effort of the task is calculated as per the given formula –<\/p>\n Planned effort * (100 – Percent Complete)\/100<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n When you update Percent Complete on a task when it has no constraint on it.<\/p>\n\n
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