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PM Alerts

The overview PM alerts page provides a high-level, exception-based view of project manager activity. Alerts indicate potential problem areas to monitor within the days outlook range. By default, the days outlook considers 45 days in the past and 45 days in the future based on the current date.

If you provide a value for As of Date, the portlets display results based on the As of Date entered instead of using the current date. The results, based on the As of Date, are 45 days in the past and 45 days in the future.

If you provide a value for Days Outlook, the portlets display results based on the Days Outlook entered instead of using the default of 45 days.

You can also combine As of Date and Days Outlook.

The PM alerts page consists of the following portlets:

• Schedule Performance
• Milestones
• Current Issues
• Staffing

Follow these steps:

1. Open Home, and from Personal, click General.

   The overview general page appears.

2. Click PM Alerts.

   The overview PM alerts page appears.

   Use the page-level filter to filter all portlets at once by OBS, Project Manager, As of Date, and Days Outlook.

Schedule Performance Portlet

The Schedule Performance portlet displays the number of late tasks categorized as critical late, past due, or scheduled late within the days outlook as follows:

• Critical Late. Represents tasks are late and on the critical path for the project.
• Past Due. Represents noncritical tasks are that are past their finish date.
• Scheduled Late. Represents noncritical tasks are due as of the current date or in the future depending on when the tasks were scheduled.

Summary tasks and milestones are not included in this portlet. Also, tasks with a status of "Completed" are not included in this portlet.

Tasks are considered late if they have a days late value, which is calculated as follows:

• If a baseline exists, then days late is calculated as task finish date minus baseline finish date.
• If a baseline exists and the task finish date is the same as the baseline finish date, then the task is considered late if it is not completed and it was due before today’s date.
• If there is no baseline, then days late is calculated if the task is not completed and it was due before today’s date. In this case, days late is calculated as today’s date minus task finish date.

No columns on the graph imply that all the tasks within the days outlook are completing as scheduled.

Click a bar on the graph to go to the schedule performance drill-down page. The Schedule Performance portlet displays on this page.