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Editing OBS Elements

You can edit an OBS in several ways. You can change an existing OBS element’s position and information, you can add an OBS element (described earlier), and you can delete an OBS element.

Edit an OBS element Choose Enterprise, OBS. Click the OBS Name column label to display the OBS hierarchy. An outline symbol () in the OBS Name column label indicates a hierarchy display. Select the OBS element you want to edit. To change the element’s information, click the General tab and enter new information. To change the element’s position in the OBS, click the appropriate arrow buttons.

The Scheduling Manager OBS element is moved to the right using the right-arrow button, to make it an element of the Project Coordinator OBS.

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Delete an OBS element Choose Enterprise, OBS. Click the OBS Name column label to display the OBS hierarchy. Select the OBS element you want to delete, then click Del/Merge. If the OBS element you want to delete has WBS, issue, threshold, risk, or any other data item assignments, you are prompted to merge the element with its higher-level OBS element. Click Yes, then click Yes again.

If you delete a higher-level OBS element, the module deletes all of the elements contained in that element.

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