The baseline is the planned, ideal roadmap for the project schedule. In order to give you a point of reference for measuring deviations to the baseline, a baseline should be saved after the schedule has been finalized but before the project gets underway. You can baseline the entire schedule at one time or subsets of the schedule as they are completed, such as the design tasks, construction tasks, or close-out tasks. Baselines can only be saved after the task(s) has been activated. A snapshot is automatically created upon saving the baseline.
To save a schedule baseline
- Open the Schedule page.
- To save a baseline of the entire schedule, select the header of the number column.
- In the Baseline section of the toolbar, click Set.
- Select either to set a baseline for the entire project or only the selected tasks.
- Click OK.
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To save the baseline of just a few tasks, press CTRL and click the number column of the tasks you wish to include.
The Set Baseline dialog is displayed.
To reset a baseline
- After a baseline has already been set, in the Baseline section of the toolbar, click Reset.
- In the Reset Baseline dialog, choose to either set the baseline for the entire project or the selected tasks.
- When prompted to confirm, click OK.
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Right-click on the tasks you wish to reset and select Reset Baseline.