Working with Activity ProgressYou can update and view the progress of activities on the Activities page. You can record activity progress directly into the Activity Table. The Progress Spotlight can help you quickly locate activities that need to be updated as well as see all the activities that should have progressed during a specific time period. Progress Spotlight displays a yellow background, or curtain, behind activities to indicate the time period during which progress should have occurred. The time period is defined by the smallest increment of the current timescale since the last data date. For example, if the current timescale is set to Month/Week, Progress Spotlight highlights all activities that should have progressed during the week since the data date. You can drag the end point of the curtain to extend or compress the time period. To update the activities quickly, you can use Ctrl+Up or Ctrl+Down keys to navigate to each highlighted activity in sequence. If instead you want to automatically calculate progress for some activities, you can add the Auto-Compute Actuals column to your activity view so you can turn this option on as needed for specific activities. Note: The Update Progress feature, often used immediately after the Progress Spotlight feature in P6 Professional, is not available in P6. Users will be able to click Schedule to schedule the project; however, the revised data date in the spotlight will not be applied. |
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