Walkthrough: Progressing A Milestone in Primavera P6

Walk through progressing a milestone in Primavera P6. This video will show you the steps to properly status a milestone in P6.

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Let’s learn how to status milestones in Primavera, milestones are the easiest activities to status, primarily because they only have one date associated with them, for example here's a project start milestone, projects start and it only has a start date, start milestones only have start dates so there's only one date to update, finished milestones work exactly the same but they only have finish dates so there's only a finish date update, it makes it really easy.

The other thing that makes it easy to status milestones is that we cannot assign resources to milestones, so the whole resource component is taken out of the mix and simplifies the process, so to status this project start milestone we’ll always be working on this status tab and we’ll be working primarily in this area highlighted by the words status, this milestone has a plan start date of January 5th 2015.

To status this milestone we’ll simply mark it started, when I mark an activity started we’re telling Primavera that we're statusing the activity that we are providing it actual information because this is a start milestone when I mark it started it's automatically marked finished because there is no such thing as a finish date for the activity once the activity is marked started and Primavera knows that I'm now statusing in the activity this field becomes the actual start date, now I ca...

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