Previewing Updates to Baselines

When you update baselines, you can choose to preview the updates that will be made to a baseline before you commit to making those changes. The Update Baselines dialog box provides an overview of all the changes that will be made to each subject area if you choose to update the baseline with the selected settings.

When you preview the changes to the baseline that will be made if you update using the options as you configured them, you can return and reconfigure the options as many times as you need to before updating the baseline. Alternatively, you can exit the preview without updating the baseline.

To preview updates to a baseline:

1. On the Navigation Menu, expand Projects and click Activities or EPS.
2. On the Activities or EPS page
   1. Click the Actions menu and select Define Baselines....
   2. In the Define Baselines dialog box:
      • Select the baseline to update.
      • Click Update Baseline.
   3. In the Update Baseline dialog box:
      • Choose whether to Run Optimized.
      • Choose whether to Ignore Last Update Date.
      • Configure the options on the Project Data,Activity Data, and Update Options tabs.
      • Click Preview.
   4. In the Update Baselines Preview dialog box:
      • Select a Subject Area from the list to see the changes that would be made to that data.
      • Optionally, select Download to download a spreadsheet of the changes that would be made to that subject area.
      • Select Back if you want to change the configuration of the Update Baseline options, Update if you want to update the baseline with the changes as previewed, or Cancel to exit the preview without making any changes to the baseline.

Tip:

If the Update Baseline Preview needs more time to complete, you can view the Update Baselines Preview in the View Service Status dialog box, by selecting the Update Baseline job and selecting View Log.