Comparing Project Versions and Baselines

Note: Note Notepad
Your administrator must assign you the Project Version Compare permission control to compare project baselines and versions.

To compare a project versionA read-only data capture of the project in a particular moment in time. or baselineA static data capture of the original or re-planned project against which changes are compared. with another project version:

  1. From the Managed Versions related list, click Compare Version.
  2. On the Compare Versions page, select your baseline or a project version from the Compare drop-down list to compare against.
  3. In the Compare To drop-down list, select a project version.
  4. Click Compare.

Viewing Comparison Overview

An overview of project version details shows headline overviews of each project detail in a series of "cards" for each detail.

Changes display in highlighted text to the right of the initial baseline or version data.

Headline Overview Headline Overview Data
Assignments
  • Number of assignments.
  • Scheduled Hours.
Budgets
  • Budget total
  • Approved
Estimates Vs Actuals
  • Estimated hours.
  • Actual hours.
Note:

Version records contain summaries of total hours listed. If you use multiple time periods for Estimates vs Actuals, such as quarter, month, and week, your hours are summarized together.

Milestones
  • Number of milestones.
Phases
  • Number of phases.
Project Tasks
  • Number of project tasks (excluding parent tasks).
  • Estimated hours.
  • Completed project tasks.
Resource Requests
  • Number of resource requests.
  • Requested hours.

To view more information on project details (such as budgets or milestones), click View Details in the appropriate project detail card. For more information, see Viewing Project Version Details.

Related Concepts

Project Versioning and Baselines

Related Tasks

Creating Project Versions and Baselines

Deleting Project Versions and Baselines

Viewing Project Version Details

Customizing the Project Versioning Quick Help Static Resource

Setting up Project Versioning and Baselines

Viewing Project Version Batch Jobs

Reference

About Project Version Permission Controls

Compare Version Fields

Create Project Version Fields

Project Version Detail Indicators

Project Versioning Global Settings

Project Versioning Settings

Version Fields

Version Batch Control Log Fields

Version Item Assignment Fields

Version Item Budget Fields

Version Item Estimates Vs Actuals

Version Item Milestone Fields

Version Item Phase Fields

Version Item Project Detail Fields

Version Item Resource Request Fields

Version Item Task Fields

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