Entry of Actual Dates (SAP Library

Entry of Actual Dates

Use

To keep control over your schedule efficiently, you can compare your basic dates with the actual dates, that means, you are comparing your planned dates with the actual dates or the anticipated completion dates.

Prerequisites

Whether you can enter actual start and finish dates for a WBS element, depends on

Whether the WBS element has been further described using activities

Whether you have already entered actual dates for subordinate WBS elements.

WBS Elements Without Activities

You can always enter the actual start.

You can only enter the actual finish, if all the subordinate WBS element already have an actual finish.

WBS Elements With Activities

You can only maintain the actual start, if all the activities that are assigned to the WBS element have the status "Partially Released" or "Released".

You can only enter the actual finish if all subordinate WBS elements already have an actual finish and all activities for this WBS element have the system status "final confirmation".

To see if you can enter an actual finish dates for a WBS element, call up the actual date overview and check whether the indicator PR has been set.