
Executing the Milestone Trend Analysis
Prerequisites
You have to have
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
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
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
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.
. 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
Chart OCX Presentation Graphics
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 .

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