When you are viewing activities, there are a series of tabs below the main screen. These display a wide variety of settings available for the activities:
The most important tab is General
, which lets you set fundamental properties of the activity. Activity ID should be a code which follows a set pattern that allows it to be grouped, sorted, and organized. For example, activities in the Engineering phase can begin with E. The Activity Name will be used on project reports such as the 3-week lookahead, and should therefore be meaningful to the people in the field performing the work on a daily basis. Activity Type is such a fundamental concept that it will be discussed in a following section solely dedicated to the topic.
The Status section shows the activitiy's start and finish dates. These dates may come from one of the following three different dates:
When the activity has not yet been scheduled, the dates are the Planned Start and Planned Finish.
After the activity...