If you have the permission to close or advance a gate activity you will be able to change the Status of a Gate activity. When all the activities for a given phase are Completed or marked Not Applicable, then the gate can be completed. Completing a gate is exactly like completing any other kind of activity.
If your deployment configuration is set to automatically close gates on completion of all activities within it, then the gate activity will be automatically completed when the last activity in the current phase is marked complete. The project gates will automatically be advanced till the project is in the final phase. After all activities in the last phase are closed, the last gate will remain open till the project lead or user with project close permission closes the project.
To complete a phase, do the following:
- Navigate to the Project Roadmap page by selecting Project # > Go To> Roadmap.
- From the Roadmap page, click the Close Phase button.
- Select a close date for the phase. The system will suggest possible dates for this field. The phase close date should be later than the phase start date, which should be later than project start date. In addition the close date has to be after the close date of the last deliverable in that phase.
- Click the Close Phase button. This will set the phase close date, close the current phase and advance the project to next phase.