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What if Changes not being discarded

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Thu, 2005-09-08 06:59
Gordon Blair
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One of my colleagues (no, honest) has been trying out the What if facility, but when he closes the project and reopens it as active, the changes he made in the what if plabn are kept. What should he be doing to ensure the what if changes are discarded when he’s done?
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Wed, 2005-09-14 17:31
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Niek Zonneveld
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The what-if function is essential if you are in the process of defining your project because it avoids people from writing time against activities in a project under construction. By changing the status from what-if to active you open up the project for time tracking.

HTH.

Niek.
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Thu, 2005-09-08 07:58
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Steven Oliver
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P3e is a real-time database. Any changes you make are made.

Copy your original plan to a new project to do the What-ifs.


HTH

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Thu, 2005-09-08 08:14
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Gordon Blair
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hmm... fair enough... and coming from P3, always save a copy before I do any tinkering or postulating, but if you have to do that anyway, what’s the point of the ’what if’ function?
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Thu, 2005-09-08 08:15
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Steven Oliver
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Just a flag
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Thu, 2005-09-08 08:27
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Steven Oliver
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Or more correctly, from the (really unhelpful) P3e help

Define a what-if project
The Project Management module enables you to create projects for examining "what-if" scenarios, known as what-if projects. You may want to copy a project before changing its status to "What-If" so that this change does not impact other projects in the EPS.


Open the project whose status you want to change to “what-if.”

Choose Enterprise, Projects and display Project Details.

Click the General tab.

Select What-If in the Status field.


Notes

Changing a project’s status requires the appropriate access rights.

If a WBS element’s status is what-if, Timesheets module users cannot view any activities included in the WBS element. This prevents Timesheets users from assigning themselves to and performing work on activities assigned to a WBS element that is not authorized for actual use. If a WBS element belongs to a parent WBS element, the element has the same status as its parent element.

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