Modifying Hierarchical IDs using Indent and Outdent
Open Plan allows you to quickly modify hierarchical IDs for activity, resource assignment, and code assignment spreadsheets by using the Indent and Outdent commands.
After displaying the appropriate spreadsheet, you select the target ID and issue either the Indent or Outdent command.
Indent
The indent feature of Open Plan allows you to renumber hierarchical IDs. When you use this feature, Open Plan renumbers the relevant ID according to the rules for automatic numbering.
By indenting an ID, Open Plan makes it into a child of the previous activity in the hierarchy and changes that previous activity into a subproject if it is not already one. For example, assume you have a project with the following hierarchy:
10
20
30
40
50
Indenting ID 20 instructs Open Plan to make it a child of ID 10 and to make ID 10 a subproject. Therefore, the following hierarchy results:
10
10.20
30
40
50
Indenting is not available when grouping is in effect or in multi-table views.
Outdent
The outdent feature of Open Plan allows you to promote an activity, resource, or code in a hierarchy to the level of its parent. In assigning an ID to the outdented element, Open Plan follows the rules for automatic numbering. For example, assume a project with the following activity hierarchy:
10
10.1
30
40
50
If activity 10.1 were to be outdented, Open Plan would assign it ID 11. Notice that although the remaining IDs in the hierarchy are numbered in 10-number increments, Open Plan assigns the outdented activity the first available ID number.