Global change
The Global change feature enables you to make changes to all activities, resource assignments, or project expenses, or a selected group of these items, at one time. In the Global Change Report, you can then select the changes you want to apply to your data before committing the change. You can use Global change to edit existing values or assign new values. For example, you can create a statement to assign resource assignments to a group of activities.
When you run Global change, data exclusively locked by another user does not change. To obtain exclusive access, before opening the project, choose Exclusive in the Access Mode section of the Open Project dialog box.
Note
You must have access to the activities, resource assignments, and expenses to which you want to make global changes. If your security profile does not enable you to access all of these items, you will not be able to commit the changes you make.
If you manually plan future period resource/role allocation, changing data globally may change or delete manual future period values.
How?
- For activity resource assignments, globally changing the Planned Finish, Remaining Finish, and Actual Start may cause manual future period values to change. Manual future period values are deleted when you globally change the assigned Curve, specify an Actual Finish date, or set the Budgeted or Planned and Remaining Units or Units/Time (Labor, Non-Labor, or Material) to zero.
- For activities, globally changing the Actual Start, Planned Finish, Planned or Original Duration, Remaining Finish, or Remaining Duration may cause manual future period values to change. Manual future period values are deleted when you globally change the Duration Type to Fixed Units or Fixed Units/Time, specify an Actual Finish date, or set the Budgeted or Planned Units/Time to zero.
Last Published Thursday, October 9, 2025