Forensic Analysis Wizard

This wizard guides you through setting up a forensic analysis.

When you click Create Analysis on the Forensics tab, the Forensic Analysis Wizard runs.

On the first page, select the project that you want to use for a comparison as base project.

Next, select the project(s) that you want to compare against the base project.

If you have selected a project that contains subprojects, the next page is a mapping screen. You can do one of two things:

• Click Add Mapping and map the subprojects so that the analysis is performed on the correct projects. For example, you may have activity A1 in Project 1 and activity A1 in Project 2. Because both activities in different projects have the same ID, mapping the projects tells Acumen which activity to look at.

  The drop-down lists display the projects IDs. If you hover over each ID, the project description displays as a tooltip.

• If you have unique activity IDs across all subprojects, you can select Ignore Subproject Structure (Compare using Activity IDs). Acumen will perform the analysis using the activity IDs. If you select this option and there are duplicate activity IDs, Acumen displays the duplicate IDs in a separate forensics category.

The next page allows you to select the fields that you want to compare. The wizard automatically selects the fields that you have selected on the Fields tab in the Compare in Forensics column; however, you can unselect them or select additional fields if needed.

When you click Finish, the Forensics tab displays the differences in the menu bar groups. The numbers in parenthesis indicate the number of differences for that field. Click on a field to view details of the differences. If needed, you can use the SmartGantt filter to filter the results and you can publish (export) the results.