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Report an interruption or restart of activity progress

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Where can I do this?

If you have the required privilege, you can use the Projects > Activities page to report that activity progress has stopped or has restarted after a period of suspended progress.

To display the Activities page, open the project or project group you want to work with, then click Activities on the Projects toolbar.

On the Activities page, you can record suspended or resumed activity progress directly in the Activity Table or you can select an activity in the table and display its details.

Tip: From a Workspace portlet, you can click an activity name to display its details and suspend or resume progress.

I want to

Tip: You can report interrupted or restarted progress only for Task Dependent and Resource Dependent activities. When you indicate a suspend or resume date, work for the activity is considered to be suspended or resumed at the beginning of the specified day.

Report interrupted or restarted activity progress in the Activity Table

  1. If the Activity Table does not display the Suspend Date and Resume Date columns, click Customize Activity View on the Activities toolbar to customize your Activity View to display them.

For information about choosing the columns you want to display in the Activity Table, see Choose and organize the content of an activity view.

  1. To specify a date, double-click in the appropriate column.
  2. When finished, click icon to save changes (Ctrl+S) to save your changes or click icon to cancel changes (Ctrl+Z) to cancel your edits.

Report interrupted or restarted activity progress in Activity Details

Step 1: Displaying Activity Status details

The procedure for displaying Activity Expense details differs depending on whether you access the details from the Activities page or in the Activity Details form.

From the Activities Page:

  1. Select the activity in the Activity Table and, on the Activities toolbar, click icon representing activity details.
  2. Select Activity Details.
  3. Select the detail type you want to view. For example, select Expenses to view information about expenses related to the selected activity.

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In the activity table, right-click an activity and select an option, such as Predecessors, Successors, Steps, or Notebooks, from the menu.

From the Activity Details Form in a portlet:

Expand the Status section, if necessary.

If Status details do not appear, edit your preferences to add them.
Step 2: Report interrupted or restarted progress
  1. Click Edit dates and constraint.
  2. Specify the appropriate date: Suspend or Resume, then click Save.

For more information about the data fields, see Activity Status Details.

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