Moving the Data Date in Primavera P6

The final step in a progress cycle is to reschedule the project after moving the Data Date forward. Watch and learn about rescheduling and moving the P6 Data Date to complete a progress cycle on your project.

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Here we are folks, the final step of the update process, moving the data date forward, in this lesson I will show you how to move the data date forward, reschedule the work and create a forecast of the future remaining work, let’s see it.

All right we've statused all the activities in the last update period and our situation is looking something like this, we had this spotlight turned on and we had set it to March 1st and we had statused a few activities and we have a few more that needed to be statused now throughout the course we actually did move the data date once but I want to show you what happens when we move the data date the second time.

We’ve statused some activities here in our February 8th to March 1st kind of timeframe and this is the future data date, the future data date will be March 1st , now some of the activities here look a little funny and that's because we haven't completed the process and we haven't moved the data date, so this green bar here looks a little strange and this kind of baseline bar here, I'm not sure what it's doing, we’re not really sure, the process of moving the data date then reschedules work and creates a forecast force of the remaining work, the remaining work will be altered and rescheduled based on the actuals in this period.

As we discussed in one of the earlier course lessons, the process o...

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