button or choose Options
on the Tools menu in any MPM Task window to access the MPM Options dialog
box.MPM has a set of options which are used in all Task windows of MPM.
Click the Options button or choose Options
on the Tools menu in any MPM Task window to access the MPM Options dialog
box.
This window contains General, Informational, Integrated Planning, GDD, and Security options, which can each be accessed by selecting the appropriate tab.
There are two General MPM options. These options are used by all Task windows.
Save Confirmations — Use this option to choose whether you want all data changes to automatically be saved in your project, or whether you want to be prompted before saving changes. This can be useful if you want to be reminded to check your work before saving it.
Process Confirmations — Use this option to choose whether you want to be prompted every time a process starts, or whether you want a process to start automatically. There are several Task windows which have processes that can take a long time to process. With the prompt on, you will know before a process starts, and if it is an inconvenient time for you, you can cancel the process and run it another time.
There are two Information MPM options, which are used by MPM to identify your company and project:
Organization (Enter the name of the organization for whom you are employed)
Program (Enter the name of the program or department of which you are part)
There is one MPM Security option:
Features — When creating new users, you can choose whether to automatically or manually display the Features dialog box, which can be helpful when entering a lot of data.
There are two Integrated Planning MPM options:
Storage Options — Use this option to choose how to save estimate changes: whether to save the changes in the Baseline only, in the Baseline and ETC, or to save the changes in the Baseline and prompt whether to also save them in the ETC. If you are in the initial planning stages of your project, you will probably be saving the Baseline and ETC together; after that, you may find one of the other options helpful.
Historical Baseline Change Options — In the EVMS world making a historical change is "not allowed" unless approved by internal management and in extreme cases by the contracting customer. Since MPM is a live database (not transactional) there is no traceability when a change to history is made. The change is usually only uncovered after much scrutiny of the data.
Selecting Prompt before saving modifications helps you minimize changes to history that are accidental. For instance, if you were changing May forward and accidentally entered data in April...this will alert you that there is an impending change to history if you elect to continue. It gives you the option to Escape before the historical change is made.
Automatically save modifications — this is the default and will save any changes without a prompted warning message.
Prompt before saving modifications — If this option is selected, a warning message will display if historical data is altered, giving you the option to cancel or proceed with the change.
Historical period end month — This date is required if Prompt before saving modifications is selected. It defaults to the current month.
There are three GDD (Graphic Drill Down) MPM options:
Legends and Labels — When generating a graph, choose whether to show WBS IDs, WBS descriptions, or both within the graph.
Graph Draw — If you have a lot of data or are requesting a complex graph, you can choose to manually redraw your graph; otherwise, GDD automatically redraws the graph.
2D Line Graph Symbols — If producing 2D line graphs, choose whether to display symbols for data types.
To view your rollup toggle status, choose Rollup Toggle Status on the View menu in any of the Task windows. MPM displays a dialog box informing you of the rollup status. For instructions on using the rollup toggle, see Setting Rollup Processing.