Status Updates Page

Overview

Use this page to review updates your team members made to their assigned activities. On this page you can modify the data, approve status updates, or place a hold on a status update to reconcile at a later time.

Screen Elements

Switch to Grid View link

Opens the grid view of the Status Updates page.

Project Selection area

Determines which status updates will appear in the list.

Search

Enables you to perform a search based on the value you enter in the search bar.

Group By list

Enables you to select whether to view status updates grouped by Review, Resource or None. You must be assigned the Admin Superuser global security profile or the Project Superuser global security profile to group the view by review status.

Selected / Unselected option

Enables you to select or clear the selection of an item in a list.

Project field

The ID and name of the project with status updates for your attention.

Pending field

The number of pending status updates per project.

Held field

The number of held status updates per project.

Rejected field

The number of rejected status updates per project.

Pending button

Filters the view to show only your pending status updates.

Held button

Filters the view to show only your held status updates.

Rejected button

Filters the view to show only your rejected status updates.

Accept All button

Accepts all visible status updates. The indicator on this button shows how many updates will be accepted.

Reject All button

Rejects all visible status updates. The indicator on this button shows how many updates will be rejected.

Search

Enables you to perform a search based on the value you enter in the search bar.

Status Updates area

Displays the status updates for your attention. Status updates are grouped by Project.

Status Updates card

Provides information about the status update, including:

Activity: The name and ID of the updated activity.

Updated Resource: The name of the resource assigned to the activity.

Submitting Resource: The name of the resource who made the update.

Project: The ID and name of the project for the activity.

WBS: The name of the WBS for the activity.

 Send Email button: Enables you to send an email to the resource.

 Discussion button: Opens the Discussions dialog box.

 More... button: Opens the Details dialog box. The details dialog box provides information about the submitted date, held date, activity codes, and UDFs assigned to the activity.

Accept button: Accepts the status update and applies the changes to the activity.

Hold button: Moves the card from the Pending list to the Held list. This button is only visible when you are viewing pending updates and after the initial update for an activity updated in P6 Team Member has been accepted.

Remove Hold button: Moves the card from the Held list to the Pending list. This button is only visible when you are viewing held updates.

Override button: Opens the Override Updates dialog box. In the Override Updates dialog box, you can provide new values for any of the changed fields. This button is only visible after the initial update for an activity updated in P6 Team Member has been accepted.

Reject button: Moves the card from the Pending list to the Rejected list and opens the Reject Status Updates dialog box.

Changed Field: The name of the field that has been changed during the status update.

Old: The old value of the changed field.

New: The new value of the changed field.

Tips

You will not see pending status updates for projects that are checked out in the P6 Professional or are opened exclusively.

Getting Here

To view status updates for all open projects:

Click Approvals.
On the Approvals navigation bar, select Status Updates.

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