Overview

Global Change is a facility for changing more than one data item in one step. Examples of the use of Global Change are:

• Assign resources to activities.

• Changing Activity ID s by adding, deleting or replacing characters.

• Copying data from one field to another. For example, copying the % Complete or a date into a custom data item before statusing a project. This would allow you to compare the % Complete between last period and the current period.

• Creating new activity descriptions by placing activity codes at the beginning or at the end of the original description.

• Calculate a new estimate of hours or dollars to complete, based on the current performance by using the formula:

  Estimate To Complete = Actual to Date x (100 -% Comp) / % Comp.

• Changing Calendars.

This chapter is intended as an introduction to Global Change. The reference manual has many examples you may review later. This chapter covers the following topics:

• The basic concepts of Global Change

• Specifying the Change Statements

• Simple Examples of Global Change

• Selecting the Activities for the Global Change

• Temporary Values and

• Advanced Examples of Global Change.

Once you understand the basics you will then develop some interesting ways of using Global change.

It is very easy to specify a Global Change that will not change data in the way you intended. You must consider your Autocost rules when using Global Change on resources, percentages complete and durations. For example, changing Original Durations will have no effect on...