Managing Projects

4) In the Status tab, enter a Suspend date.

When the activity resumes, enter a Resume date.

Tips

You can use bar necking to graphically display the suspended activity’s nonworktime. In the Bars dialog, Bar Settings tab, select the Calendar nonwork time option under Bar Necking Settings.

You can show suspend and resume dates as columns.

Notes

The activity must have an actual start date before you can record a suspend date.

You can only enter suspend and resume dates on Task Dependent and Resource Dependent activities.

When you enter a suspend or resume date, the activity is suspended or resumed at the beginning of the specified day.

The module calculates an actual duration for all activities based on the amount of time actually worked. The amount of time an activity’s progress is suspended is considered nonworktime based on activity and resource calendar definitions. Units and costs are not spread during the suspend period.

Apply actuals

1)Choose Tools, Apply Actuals.

The Project(s) To Be Updated section lists all the projects you can update, along with the current data date and the project planned start for each project.

2)Specify whether to use the same data date for all projects or whether each project uses its own data date.

3)In the New Data Date field, click and select the new data date or click the arrows to select a new data date based on timesheet end dates.

4)Specify whether to recalculate the remaining duration based on the activity duration type or to always recalculate. If you choose to always recalculate, all activities are treated as Fixed Units and Fixed Units/Time.

5)Click Apply.

When connected to a P6 EPPM database: The job is now sent to a queue and run as an ASAP service. Because the job is not run locally from P6 Professional, there might be a time lag before it is processed. The status of your job, such as pending, failed, running, or completed, appears in the Last Job Request field in the status bar of your screen. You can also click Tools, Job Status to display the Job Status dialog box for details about the status of jobs. Finally, a message appears in the taskbar, along with the Oracle icon, when the job completes successfully or if it fails to complete successfully. The message appears for ten seconds and displays the internal job name of the job. After ten seconds only the Oracle icon continues to appear, and you can click it to view the message.

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