Remove actuals in P6 (HELP)

Member for

14 years 11 months

Change Actual Labor Units and Actual Nonlabor Units to zero.

You can do this with a global change, by adding columns, or in the status tab switching between Labor Units and Nonlabor using the drop down arrow:

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Member for

16 years 3 months

How to de-status a schedule

1. Choose Enterprise, Projects and select the Calculations tab. Choose to "Link Budget and At Completion for not started activities" and "Reset Remaining Duration and Units toOriginal

2. Choose View, Columns and add the columns for Actual Labor Units, Actual NonlaborUnits.

3. Choose Tools, Schedule and set the data date equal to the Project Start Date and schedule.To find the Project Start date, choose Enterprise, Projects. Click on the Dates tab and note the Planned Start date.

4. For the first activity in the list, set the Actual Labor Units to 0. Highlight the activities inthis column and choose Edit, Fill Down.

5. For the first activity in the list, set the Actual Nonlabor Units to 0. Highlight the activitiesin this column and choose Edit, Fill Down.

6. Choose Tools, Global Change and run the 1st Global Change. This will set the Actual Material Units to zero.

7. Run the 2nd global change which sets the activity status to Not Started. 1st Global Change:

Subject Area:  Activity Resource Assignments If: Where Resource Type equals Material

Then:  Actual Material Units  = 0 

2nd Global change

Subject Area: Activities If: Where Activity Status  is not equal to  Not Started

Then:  Activity Status  Equals  Not Started

Member for

20 years 7 months

highlight the activity you want to change, go to the status tab, uncheck the finish date, change the physical % complete back to zero, reset the actual & remaining labor units (budgeted quantity)in the labour units box, then you should be able to uncheck the start date, it will ask you Are you sure that you want to change the activity to be Not Started? Jusk click yes and it should work



Hope this helps,



Scott