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Set the baseline

Set the baseline - OmniPlan Tutorial

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Set the baseline

- Baselines are a very useful and exciting feature of OmniPlan. What they allow you to do is set down your plan schedule, and then compare it to your actual schedule as you progress through a project. Let's take a look at how you set an initial baseline. So here I am in task view in the project we've been working on, and it's important that we've done a series of checks before we set our initial baseline. So, in the previous chapter we've just gone through, a lot of different checks to just kind of tighten the screws on our schedule, and now we think it's depicting what we want, and we want to sort of take a snapshot of it and lock it in as our plan schedule. So, appropriately, one of the ways to get your baseline going is this little camera feature, to commit to the schedule as it says there, and there's other ways to get this dialogue up, but we'll just go ahead and click the camera and it says we're going to create a baseline for this project. And there's some instruction here, and…

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