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Milestones/Steps Tab of the Project View

Use this tab to create milestones and steps for work packages.

You can add milestones for work packages that do not use the Milestones or Steps progress technique if the Allow entering milestones regardless of Progress Technique option on the Preferences — Project tab of the Project Properties dialog box is selected. However, Cobra processes will ignore milestones added to a work package that has a progress technique other than Milestones.

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 This column displays the name of the milestone or step.
Description This column displays a description of the milestone or step.
Baseline Finish

This column displays the baseline finish date for the milestone.

This column displays for work packages that use Milestones progress technique. In addition, this column displays for work packages that use any of the progress techniques other than Steps if the Allow entering milestones regardless of Progress Technique option on the Preferences — Project tab of the Project Properties dialog box is selected.

Actual Finish

This column displays the actual finish date for the milestone.

This column displays for work packages that use Milestones progress technique. In addition, this column displays for work packages that use any of the progress techniques other than Steps if the Allow entering milestones regardless of Progress Technique option on the Preferences — Project tab of the Project Properties dialog box is selected.

Forecast Finish

This column displays the forecast finish date for each milestone of the work package.

This column displays for work packages that use Milestones progress technique. In addition, this column displays for work packages that use any of the progress techniques other than Steps if the Allow entering milestones regardless of Progress Technique option on the Preferences — Project tab of the Project Properties dialog box is selected.

Status 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, 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.

Weight 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.

Note: You can display the milestone weight value on this tab with up to six decimal places using the Precision of Milestone Weight field on the General tab of the Application Preferences dialog box.
% Complete 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.