Morning all,
I wonder if somenoe can tell me a quick way to actualise several activities at once in P6?
I am working on a programme that has several structures within it each with their own WBS section, however a couple of the structures have been removed from our workbank until more funding comes along. So not wanting to remove them entirely I want to actualise all activities in those WBS sections only at the date we were told to defer the work.
Any ideas please?
Thanks
Thom
there are always several ways to do things in P6.
if you haven't already
I would add a note to the notebook field for each activity where you did this and note that the structures were put on hold until funding becomes available.
I might also add a code and tag each of these activities with a unique code something like "ON HOLD"
This will give you the ability to easily find them in the future or not to show them at all.
Zoltan,
As usual you a mine of information. The actual Start/Finish columns did the trick. Option 1 is too scary with our system, I've lost far too much data to Global change and Option 3 our security settings do not allow importing of anything. Option 2 did the trick though.
Thanks for the assistance, greatly appreciated.
Thom
you have 3 options
options #1 (use a global change)
Tools Global Change
where wbs equals (whatever it is)
then actual start = select {Custom} then select the date that you want to use
and actual finish = select {Custom} then select the date that you want to use
then select change on the right
option #2 (use fill down)
filter for the activities that you want
add the actual start and finish columns
click in the actual start column for the 1st activity and put the date in
select the rest of the activities and right click and select fill down
click in the actual finish column for the 1st activity and put the date in
option #3 (export to excel and import to P6)
export the activities that you want to excel
make sure to include the actual start and finish columns and in the export filter for the activities that you want
populate the actual start and finish dates in excel
save the file
import the file back into p6