Starting Activities

After you start working on an activity, report your progress.

Note:

The fields displayed in your view are customized by your project manager. Not all fields mentioned here are available in your view and there may be additional fields in your view not mentioned in the procedure. Discuss with your manager the fields you need to update to provide status on your assignments.

To start an activity:

1. Select an activity.
2. Select Start (Ctrl+Alt+S).
3. On the Status tab of the progress panel:
   1. Update the Started date field, if you started the activity on a date other than the scheduled date.

      Note:

      You cannot set the Started date to a date that is later than the current date.

   2. Enter your status. For example, Time Spent or % Complete.

      Note:

      If Time Left is greater than zero, the amount of time added to Time Spent will be deducted from the amount in Time Left. If Time Left is zero, then there is no change to this field.

4. Select Save (Ctrl+Alt+Enter).

Tip:

• As you make updates to your work units, your progress is shown in the progress indicator in the activity pane.
• You can mark an activity complete without indicating progress. When you mark an activity that has not been started as complete, the activity is automatically marked as started, the planned dates become the started and finished dates, and the time left becomes the time spent.
• If your activity is a milestone, you are not presented with a start button. For a milestone, select Mark Activity Complete (Ctrl+Alt+C) and update the Started date for a start milestone, or the Finished date for a finish milestone.