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Comparing an update with auto updated target ( p3 3.1)

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Tue, 2007-10-30 02:09
Deep Elias
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Dear friends

I have 2 project files

(1) the monthly updated schedule
(2) the baseline auto updated for planned progress on same data date as that of the file 1.

Now i open the file 1 and assign file 2 as its target.
is it possible to filter all the activities that have started(percent complete GT 0%) in the target file from within file 1?

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Wed, 2007-10-31 01:33
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Deep Elias
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Yep that does it.
but while doing global change consider including criteria for those milestone activities which may not have start dates(say finish milestones) or vice versa as u may require.

Conclusion : you can access few target parameters thru global change options.

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Tue, 2007-10-30 10:50
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Johny Kesserwany
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In the custom data :
1) create an item name TASD , type S, length:7, Target actual start.

2) do a global change to store all Target actual start dates to TASD

3) Run a filter on TASD

You can repeat these steps to any date in the target.

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Tue, 2007-10-30 08:59
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Deep Elias
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Dear Johny

Could you further explain this.
I tried making a custom data item with "type start date" in the target project and ran a global change to make all activities with percent complete GT 0 to have this CDI to become Actual start date, but i cant access CDI from main project.

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Tue, 2007-10-30 08:38
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Johny Kesserwany
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You can do it by:

1) creating custom data items corresponding to your Early and/or Actual dates in the Target project.

2) run filters on these Custom data items in the current project

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JK
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Tue, 2007-10-30 05:01
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Deep Elias
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Dear Ashraf

but this sometimes may not serve the purpose when we want to show all started activities in updated program along with the target.

usually some activities in updated program starts earlier than planned.


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Tue, 2007-10-30 04:54
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Ashraf Jahangeer
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Hi,

You can do it otherway around i.e. make (1) the target of (2) and open all started activities of (2) by giving a filter %Comp >0.

Hope this helps ad the resultant filter will be the same as you require.


Regards,

Ashraf
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