Baseline Resourcing Assistance

Kristi_in_heels,

Kick your heels off, let's see if we can get to the bottom of this.

First of all, what version of Project are you using?

Second, I think there is some misunderstanding in terminology. You mention needing a report of the current state, which you call "baseline1" and the original state, which you call "baseline". In Project the current state is the "live" plan, the original state is the baseline, assuming one was set before any activities were started.

Then I'm confused about the manual loading of the "original baseline dates" into the Baseline Start and Baseline Finish fields. The original baseline dates are the baseline start and baseline finish dates, again, assuming a baseline was set at the onset.

So, what really happened? There is no reason to manually do anything with baselines. Setting a baseline will automatically populate all the Baseline fields which then provide the data to compare with the current plan (active schedule) in any report. If you did not set a baseline before plan execution started then depending on how far the plan has progressed (i.e. actual performance), it may or may not be feasible to get a report of schedule performance from the onset. The best you may be able to do is to set a baseline now. You will at least be able to prepare valid reports of plan performance from this point forward.

John