Milestones & Markers report


This report type is available with BigPicture Enterprise only.

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This report lets you keep track of all your Milestones & Markers in one place.

  • You could create a report in a Portfolio Box to track multiple projects.

    Milestones in Project Portfolio

  • You could use it in the main project Box to track a single project. 

What does the report show?

The report shows:

  • current and future information

    • milestones

    • markers

  • Past information

    • milestones that are not "Done" 

Past markers are not displayed.

Past milestones in the "Done" status are not displayed.

Element

Description

Element

Description

Name

Name of the element

End date

Current end date of the element

Baseline

Deviation from the baseline:

  • If a baseline hasn't been created, the field remains empty

  • If a baseline exists, the app calculates the difference (number of days) between the baseline end date and the current end date

    • 0d → task on schedule (baseline date = end date)

    • -Xd → task behind schedule (baseline date < end date)

    • +Xd → task ahead of schedule (baseline date > end date)

Source

Box the item was created in.

  • "today" marker is always visible

  • color of milestones corresponds to their setup in the Gantt module

     

  • color of markers corresponds to their setup

Markers

Inheritance from upper levels:

  • Markers from lower-level Boxes are not visible. 

  • Markers from upper-level Boxes are visible.

In the "source" column, you can see what Box a marker is from. Markers from upper-level Boxes are included in the report.

Markers from lower-level Boxes are not included. 

Milestones

Inheritance from lover levels:

  • Milestones from lower-level Boxes are visible

  • Markers from upper-level Boxes are not visible. 

In the "source" column, you can see what Box a milestone is from. Milestones from lower-level Boxes are included in the report. 

Milestones from upper levels are not included.

Report configuration

Report configuration/ edit/ delete information can be found on the following page. Report management works the same for all reports. 

Available fields

Element

Description

Element

Description

Name

The report name is displayed in the header of each report.

Content

You can select one of the three options:

  • Show milestones and markers

  • Show milestones only

  • Show markers only