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Prerequisites

You have to have Structure link created milestones for the WBS elements and/or activities and set the Trend analysis indicator in the Usage section of the detail screen.

You must have Structure link created project versions in the information system for the required report dates.

To do this, in the Project Information System choose Structure ® Structure Overview or in the Project Execution menu, choose Period-End closing ® Project Versions.

Now choose Evaluation ® Save project version.

On the dialog screen enter the version key, the version group, and if required a description of the version.

For the data to be used in milestone trend analysis, you have to set the MTA relevant indicator in this dialog box. This indicator is set as a default, since in general it does adversely affect performance.

Procedure

  1. To access the milestone trend analysis, choose Logistics or Accounting ® Project System ® Information System ® Progress ® Milestone Trend Analysis.
  2. A selection screen appears, in which you limit which milestones are displayed by selecting projects, WBS elements, networks and/or activities.

    You can determine whether basic dates or forecast dates are used for the Structure link milestone dates . You can also change which set of dates is used in the MTA.

    You use the Use current data too indicator to determine whether the dates from the operative project are used or whether only data from the project version is evaluated.

  3. Choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.
  4. The MTA chart appears in which the dates of the selected milestones are plotted against the report dates.

    By double-clicking individual graphical elements, you can open dialog boxes for changing these elements. For instance if you double-click the axes you can change the axis text, scaling, and so on, or by double-clicking the curves the formatting of the data. For general information about this kind of graphic, refer to Structure link Chart OCX Presentation Graphics

  5. If you want to see the table instead of the graphic, choose Goto ® Table.
  6. The table with the milestone dates on the report dates appears.

    For here you can go to to the detail screen of a selected milestone by choosing Edit ® Choose .

  7. In both the graphic and the table you can restrict the number of milestones or report dates that are displayed by choosing View ® Choose dates.

Note

You can also access MTA in the project planning board. To do this, select the relevant WBS elements and choose Goto ® Milestone trend analysis.

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