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Merlin: Baseline, planned values

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 16. December 2009

I’ve downloaded your software and I am pretty impressed. I’ve looked around, and while I believe it’s possible from screenshots, how does one go about setting the baseline for a project?

Does this sound familiar to you? You know what a baseline theoretically is, but do not have a clue how to set it in Merlin?
That’s simple.

Do you know how to insert activities into your projects?

Do you know how to link them or set a specific starting point?

Do you know how to enter rates in resources or budgets?

Do you know how to call the ‘plan’ tab of the inspector to enter or see planned values there?

If you can answer all these questions by a ‘yes’, you know how to enter  a baseline to your project and probably set up the baseline already innumerable times in the past.
The planned values are the baseline in a Merlin project.

Their display in Gantt is per default enabled in the ‘activities view options’:

They will appear in gray, so one can distinguish them from the colored bars of the actuals.

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Tags: Merlin, Merlin 101