Baseline assignment
We have discussed a lot about how to create and manage baselines. This is all fine, but the purpose behind baselines is in project analysis. To do this, you must assign baselines to your project. There are two main kinds of baselines assignment:
Project Baseline is a baseline that is set as the official baseline for the project. This baseline is the one used to calculate all variance fields, to populate information on web dashboards and controls icons and indicators on charts and dashboards and in columns. This is the one used for the reporting engine. All users who view the project and look at baseline information will see the data from this and only this baseline.
User Baseline: Each user can have up to three personal baselines assigned in the Professional client. In the web client, however, there is only one user baseline allowed. This allows a user to compare the current project with up to three previous snapshots (baselines) at a given time. Some good examples for...
