Working with Activities
Although you might view activities any number of ways in P6, including on dashboards, workspaces, reports, and the Resource Assignments page, the most common way to work with project activities is on the Activities page and, specifically, in the Activity Table.

The Activity Table
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Open Projects: Open the projects you want to work with using the Open Projects menu item. Then click the navigation bar icon for the Activities page. The page shows which projects are currently open.
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Activity View: Next, select an activity view that already includes the Activity Table or click Table. The view should be sorted hierarchically by WBS in order to optimize your ability to manage WBS elements and activities within them. When working with activities, always make sure you have set the grouping, sorting, and filtering view options that help you focus on only the data that matches your needs.
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Menus and Toolbars: The menus and customizable toolbars on the Activities page provide you with convenient access to the commands of most importance to your work.
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Activity Table: You can select activities and update them within the table itself or on the detail windows. In the table, you can modify, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Fill Down values. When multiple projects are open, you can copy and paste activities between projects just as you would within a single project. When you cut or copy an activity, all attributes are copied along with it.
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Activity Gantt: Refer to the optional Gantt chart to supplement your work in the table with a visual representation of the schedule.
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Assignments detail window: Update resource and role assignments in this detail window. The first resource also appears in the Primary Resource column in the table. In this example, the Assignments detail window is floatable, meaning it can freely be moved within the screen.
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Steps detail window: Break the activity down into smaller units called steps. The progress of steps can also be measured. In this example, some progress has been recorded in the Step % Complete field for each of three steps for the activity. The user in this example, has also elected to dock the Steps detail window above the other windows but below the Activity Table.
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General detail window: Record basic details about the activity in this detail window. You can show or hide the series of detail windows that appears for each activity and WBS.
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Note: Using P6 Administrator application, your administrator can set a default value for the maximum number of activities that appear on the Activities page.
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