Spotlight Activities and Auto update Actual Progress

Activity Spotlight — a valuable feature particularly for making bulk updates to the activities within a schedule. It allows users to move the data date using a slider and automatically updates activities within the current data date and prospective data date.

In scenarios where the schedules require frequent updates or you want to reduce the risk of errors associated with manual updates, use the activity spotlight feature to automatically actualize activities based on the adjusted data date and ensure the schedule reflects the most up-to-date information.

Once you spotlight activities from the Gantt or Activity table, you can quickly update the status by using the option to automatically apply actual dates to the activities that has either started, or in-progress, or completed.

Here are the steps to initiate the automatic update of actual dates:

Step 1:  Click the "Activity Spotlight" control on the top-menu and adjust the slider to select the activities within a date range.

Step 2: After selection of activities, from the top-menu click the "Auto Apply Actuals" button