The Helpful Progress Spotlight Tool in Primavera P6

Primavera P6's Progress Spotlight Tool makes the statusing process easier. Learn about this great visual tool and how it can make your life easier.

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Welcome back everybody, man are we learning a lot in this course, I’m throwing a lot of material at you in this progressing course, and in this lesson we’re going to keep going, I'm going to show you a great tool that’s going to help you in statusing, it’s called the progress spotlight.

Here's what you need to do, you need to have your Gantt chart in view, I’ll just drag mine down a little bit more here so you can see it better, let's turn it on, we go here to the view menu and you can click progress spotlight on the view menu, you can also toggle it here, it’s a little spotlight icon up on the toolbar, toggle on toggle off, okay well, looks really cool doesn't it? But what does it do?

What the progress spotlight does is it helps you figure out what activities you should be progressing in the next status update when you turn it on it highlights in a spotlight yellow the upcoming activities, now notice, look at the blue line here, there's my data date, that was the last time I did a status update whatever date that data date set to, I turn it on it says here are all the activities that need to be statused from that data date going forward.

These are the ones that are scheduled to happen in the next period so I should be statusing them, and they show up in yellow here in my activity list, so these activities are yellow in the activity li...

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