Baselines

You can use the scheduling information in Microsoft Project to create baselines in LN Project and in Microsoft Project.

LN owns the baselines. From Microsoft Project, you can create a new baseline or update an existing baseline for the connected LN project.

A list of all baseline numbers from LN Project is available, from which you can select a baseline to update an existing baseline, or you can derive a new baseline.

You can update the baselines with the most recent schedule information of the activity structure from the Microsoft Project. After you update the baselines, the schedule information is aggregated to the top in LN.

During initial planning or schedule development, the planned schedule dates (start/finish) from Microsoft Project are updated to LN Project. As the project progresses some customer update the actual information in Microsoft Project, because of which the planned information is changed/set to actual dates. On synchronization the planned information is updated with actual dates in LN Project. This can be avoided with the option to update the planned dates with the baselines information. As Microsoft Project does provide the possibility define/save multiple baselines, user can select from the list of baseline with which the planned dates needs to be updated.