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Manually Update Baselines at the Project Level

You can update existing project baselines to reflect changes to task assignments and other information. For example, you might want to update an existing baseline to include data from recently posted actuals. When you update a baseline, it becomes the current baseline revision.

When you update a baseline from the project, all of the changes you made to task assignments, estimates, and budgets since the last update are included. Updating a baseline changes its values accordingly.

When you update a master project's baseline, you also update the baselines for each subproject listed in the master project's subproject hierarchy. This baseline becomes the current baseline for the master project and its subprojects.

When you update a subproject's baseline, baseline and earned value data are not rolled up. You must initiate the update from the master project in order to roll up baseline data through the master project's subproject hierarchy.

Note: When you initiate an update from the master project, only the subproject’s that you have marked as Read/Write are updated.

Use this procedure to manually update master project and subproject baselines.

To manually update a baseline at the project level

1. Open the project for which you want to update the baseline.

   The Project: Properties: Main - General page appears.

2. Click the Baseline subtab.

   The Project: Properties: Baseline page appears.

3. Select the check box next to the baseline you want to update, and click Update Baseline.

   The Confirm Revision Update message appears.

4. Click Yes to continue.

   The updated project baseline displays on the Project: Properties: Baseline page.

More information:

How to Manually Update Baselines

Manually Update Baselines at the Task Level

Update Master Project Baselines

Manually Update Baselines at the Task Level

Master Project and Subproject Baselines