Adding New Task After Setting Baseline

Kaleb

Smartsheet Community:

Once The Baseline is Set. It Would Be Nice to Have The Ability to Add New Tasks and for those Tasks to be Added to The Baseline without Re-Setting it.

Today, I have to Manual Change All the Dates. This Drastically Increase human Errors and is Very Time Consuming.

Paulo Ferrer

I work with numerous projects and teams geographically distributed across the globe. I really like to use the project baseline, but it is necessary to reset right after the first planning. It would be very interesting to be able to have an automation that would allow the baseline to be reset.

Tks!

Arundhati

What date would you like the new task to reflect - the date you added it? Start date of the project? Or other date? I have run into this issue in the past as well where I set the baseline and then need to add new task(s).

I am sure Smartsheet can find a solution to this. But on a separate note maybe from a PM perspective after you set certain tasks to be your baseline i.e. your scope anything new you add will require you to revise the scope/baseline?

Kaleb

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Yes, but I don't want to Re-Set The Entire Baseline because it will then be On Track. The Additional Scope Added Should Factored into The Existing Baseline. Therefore, the Scope Change shoes the True Impact to The Existing Schedule

Arundhati

Got it. I agree with you, I have run into a similar situation too and would love for the baseline function to be updated.

Cheryl Ferraro

I would like the baseline function to be updated as well. We have a Mastersheet that we are constantly adding new projects to and want to use the baseline to see what part of the project is causing delays. If I need to reset the baselines every time I add a new project, it will either have incorrect information for all other projects that were previously on the sheet, or I have to manually change the dates (which would be extremely time consuming).

MAL_CAPTAIN803

I work with projects which start with a minimal scope of work, which then grows dynamically.

Once I have entered the original scope of work, I can create a baseline - OK.

However, when I add new tasks to the project, I simply want to add them to the existing baseline and set planned start / end dates / Duration and actual start / end dates / duration. - without having to reset the entire baseline.

It would be nice to have option to update entire baseline (traditional style) OR update only tasks which do not have an assigned baseline.