General Tab

The Activity Details General tab defines the basic information about the activity.

Contents

Field	Description
ID, Desc., Status, Duration	These fields are common to all tabs. Attention: See Common Fields for a description of these fields.
Calendar	If you have assigned a calendar file to the project, you can assign a calendar to the activity. Each activity in a project can use its own calendar. Open Plan uses this calendar to control calculations for the activity. If you do not enter a calendar in this field, Open Plan performs all calculations based on the default calendar assigned to the project. In projects for which no calendar file has been assigned, all activity dates are calculated using a 5-day, 40-hour work week.
Type	The activity type defines how the activity is treated during time analysis. Open Plan supports the following activity types: ASAP ALAP Start Milestone Finish Milestone Discontinuous Subproject Hammock Effort Driven External Subproject Foreign Project Foreign Subproject Foreign Activity

Attention: For more information about subprojects, see Hierarchical Projects and Subprojects. For more information about hammocks, see Hammocks in Open Plan.

In order for the Resources and Codes tabs to be enabled, the appropriate ancillary files must first be assigned to the project.

Related Topics

• Effort-Driven Activities
• Changing an Activity Type to Effort Driven
• Target Dates
• Hammocks in Open Plan
• Working with Hierarchical Projects
• Using the Options Dialog Box: Edit Tab

Related Procedures

• Creating an Activity in a Barchart View
• Creating an Activity in a Network View
• Creating an Activity in a Spreadsheet View
• Assigning a Calendar to an Activity
• Setting a Target Start Date
• Setting a Target Finish Date
• Using External Subprojects
• Resizing the Dialog Box