Work Plan Options

Actions > Resource Usage

Opens the Resource Usage page for the work plan. It allows you to view the work load of each resource assigned to the work plan.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Viewing Resource Usage in Work Plan.

Creates a work plan baseline.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Create a work plan baseline.

Opens the Import Work Plan Template window to select a template. The template tasks will be added above the selected task in the current work plan.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Import a template.

Imports a work plan from another project to add tasks for the current work plan.

Available in all the work plan views except the Quick view.

For details, see Import a work plan.

Adds or removes columns

Available in all views except the Gantt view. In the Quick view, it is the Select the Columns to Display icon.

For details, see Adding or removing work plan columns.

Adds indicator columns to work plan to quickly tell what a task's health is, whether it has constraints, whether it is on project critical path and so on without opening the task details.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Configuring indicator columns.

Deletes the work plan.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Deleting a Work Plan.

Creates a work plan template from the current work plan.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Set up work plan templates.

Opens the Opening PPM_Project.mpp dialog to allow you open the current work plan in Microsoft Project.

Available in all views.

Foe details, see Opening a Work Plan in Microsoft Project using Project Management.

Adds tasks to the work plan.

Available in all views.

For details, see Add a task.

Copy

Paste

Creates a new task by copying and pasting an existing task.

Available in all views.

Deletes selected tasks in the work plan.

Available in all views.

Edit > Task Details

Opens the Task Details page of the selected task.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

Opens the Enter Actuals page to edit the actual information of a task. It allows editing multiple tasks simultaneously.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Edit task details.

Opens the Resource Assignments window to edit the assignments of a task. It allows editing multiple tasks simultaneously.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Edit task details.

Opens the Set Role window to edit the role of a task. It allows editing multiple tasks simultaneously.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Edit task details.

Opens the Shift Task Schedule window to shift the scheduled of a task forward or backward by any number of days. It allows editing multiple tasks simultaneously.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Edit task details.

Opens the Link Tasks window to define Finish-to-Start predecessor relationships between each of the selected tasks, in order of their sequence in the work plan.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Edit task details.

Opens the Set Status window to edit the status of a task. It allows editing multiple tasks simultaneously.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Edit task details.

Opens the Task Details window to add tasks from another project as external predecessors for the selected task.

Available in all views.

For details, see Add predecessors from the work plan page.

Expands or collapses the work plan to a specified level from 2 to 7.

Available in all views.

For details, see Level expand/collapse.

Filters the work plan for a certain set of tasks.

Available in all views except the Quick view.

For details, see Filter tasks in work plan.

Filters the tasks that are linked with agile projects.

Available only in the Quick view.

For details, see Filter hybrid tasks in Quick View.

Opens the Gantt Legend window to explain the legends in the Gantt chart of the Quick view.

Available only in the Quick view.

Indent

Outdent

Indents or outdents the selected tasks to build task relationships.

Available in all views.

For details, see Build task relationship.

Opens the Schedule Work Plan window to run the scheduling.

Available in all views.

For details, see Schedule a work plan.

Opens the Schedule Summary Task window to run the scheduling.

Available in all views.

For details, see Schedule a summary task.

Uploads tasks from Microsoft Excel to the PPM project work plan.

Available only in the Quick view.

For details, see Upload work plan from Microsoft Excel.

Switches the work plan to the selected view.

Available in all views.