Managing Project Plans in the Project Center
You can create and modify your project plans directly in the project center.
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Add new phases, tasks and milestones to your project plan without having to open a form. Click the Add New icon in the Actions column next to a phase or a next to the project root to insert a new entry. The new entry will be nested immediately under the phase or the project root. |
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Use inline-editing to enter or update the phase, task or milestone information. See Inline-Editing in List Views. You can distinguish set start and end dates from calculated dates. The fixed date icon indicates a set start and end date for a task or milestone. You can modify set start and end dates using inline editing in the project center, if your role permissions allow it, but you cannot modify calculated dates. However, you can change calculated dates to set dates and conversely. To change a calculated start or end date to a set date, double-click the start or end date cell, clear the Calculated date box, then select the date. Conversely, to change a set start or end date to a calculated date, double-click the start or end date cell, then check the Calculated date box. Click a different row or press Enter to save the changes. A message appears confirming the record was saved.
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Form permissions and form rules are respected. Form scripts associated with the project phase, task or milestone form will be triggered when updating a record directly from the project center outline view. Access control at the project level is also supported. For example, if the project can only be edited by the project owner or authorized users, the project center view is read-only for all other users unless the Allow employees with appropriate permissions to add project based items when they do not have permission to modify the project optional feature is enabled for your account and the user can edit project tasks. A label above the column headers indicates whether the project center is editable or read-only, depending on the access control settings for the project you are viewing and your permissions. |
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To change the sequence of your project, point to the row corresponding to the phase, task or milestone you want to move, then drag it to the required position. The mouse pointer changes to a closed hand cursor when you hold the mouse down. When you drag the selected entry:
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Click the Edit icon in the Actions column to open the phase, task, or milestone property form. Click the More icon in the Actions column and select Delete to delete an entry. Any entries nested under the deleted entry will move up one level. For example, if you delete one of the main phases nested under the project root, all the sub-phases, tasks and milestones that were nested under that deleted phase will now be nested under the project root. A message appears confirming the record was deleted successfully. |
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The project center lets you view and set dependencies between predecessor and successor phases or tasks.
Click the More icon in the Actions column and select Edit predecessors or click the cell in the Predecessors column to edit the predecessor settings for a task. The Predecessor settings popup window appears and shows any predecessors already set and a blank line, you can use to add a task or phase dependency.
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