Build A Great Activity Layout in P6 for Progressing

A step-by-step video lesson that teaches you how to build a great Activity Layout in P6 to make progressing easier. You'll learn which actual fields you should display and how to build and save the layout for use whenever you are progressing a schedule.

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Hi and welcome back to the course, in this lesson I want to show you how to build a good layout that will help you in your statusing and progressing processes, the goal here is to pull out the proper fields and the field that will help you, as you status, let's get started.

We’re going to work in two areas, we’re going to work up here in the columns of the activity list as well as in the columns on the resource tab and the expenses tab, those are the three areas where we will be doing statusing and we have columns that can be edited, in the activity list I started with a fairly bare bones bunch of columns, activity ID and activity name are my standards ,I keep them there all the time, then we have activity type, duration, start and finish.

I’m going to start by going to my column chooser and coming to percent complete, and what I’d like to do is to pull out the activity percent complete column, put it down at the end, I’d also like to pull out the percent complete type column as well and I’ll put that one up here after activity type, great, clicking ok and just adjusting things a little bit, those are the essential columns I’ll need in the top half of my screen, let’s come to the bottom half of my screen know where I will edit the columns on the resource tab.

I’ll simply right click and choose customize resource columns, I want ...

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