Use the Milestones/Steps tab of the Project view to create milestones and steps for work packages that use the Milestones or Steps progress technique.
The Milestones/Steps grid displays properties only for work packages that use the Milestones or Steps progress technique.
You cannot modify properties about a milestone if it has a status of
Completed.
Right-click the Milestones/Steps pane to display the menu items relevant to it.
Contents
Field | Description |
Name
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This column displays the name of the milestone or step. You cannot modify this value.
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Description
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This column displays a description of the milestone or step.
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Baseline Finish
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This column displays the baseline finish date for the milestone.
This field is available only if the work package uses the Milestones progress technique.
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Actual Finish
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This column displays the actual finish date for the milestone.
This field is available only if the work package uses the Milestones progress technique.
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Forecast Finish
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This column displays the forecast finish date for each milestone of the work package.
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Status
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This column displays the status of the work package. The status is either
Planned,
In-progress, or Completed. You cannot modify this value.
If the percent complete is 0, the status is
Planned. If the percent complete is greater than 0 but less than 100, the status is
In-progress. If the percent complete is 100, the status is
Completed.
If you are not using percent completes for milestones, then the status changes depending on the actual finish date. If the
Actual Finish field is blank, the status is
Planned. If you enter a date in the
Actual Finish field, the status is
Complete.
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Weight
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This column displays the weight assigned to the work package. Cobra uses the weight to indicate how much of the work package value is earned when the milestone or step has been completed.
For example, if three milestones are set up with a weight of 30, 30, and 40 each, each milestone will earn the same percentage of the total work package budget once the milestone has been completed.
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% Complete
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If you selected the
Allow percent complete on milestones/steps option on the Project Preferences tab of the Project Properties dialog box, you can enter the percent complete for each milestone or step.
Entering 100% automatically gives the milestone a status of
Complete and makes the actual finish date the same as the status date.
Deleting the actual finish date resets the milestone to
In-progress and enables the
% Complete column.
Changing the status from
In-progress to
Planned resets this field to 0.
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