Change data globally

1. Choose Tools, Global Change.
2. Click New.
3. Select a Subject Area.
4. Type a name to identify the global change specification.
5. Define If, Then, Else and statements to specify the data you want to change.
   
   Click Add to define additional If, Then, or Else statements.
   
6. Click Change.
7. To accept the changes, click Commit Changes; to cancel the global change and return the data to its original state, click Cancel Changes.

Notes

• If you manually plan future period resource/role allocation, changing data globally may change or delete manual future period values.
  How?
  • For activity resource assignments, globally changing the Planned Finish, Remaining Finish, and Actual Start may cause manual future period values to change. Manual future period values are deleted when you globally change the assigned Curve, specify an Actual Finish date, or set the Budgeted or Planned and Remaining Units or Units/Time (Labor, Non-Labor, or Material) to zero.
  • For activities, globally changing the Actual Start, Planned Finish, Planned or Original Duration, Remaining Finish, or Remaining Duration may cause manual future period values to change. Manual future period values are deleted when you globally change the Duration Type to Fixed Units or Fixed Units/Time, specify an Actual Finish date, or set the Budgeted or Planned Units/Time to zero.
• You must have access to the activities to which you want to make global changes. If your security profile does not enable you to access all the activities, you will not be able to commit the changes you make.
• When you type a value for duration or units in Parameter/Value fields (in Then and Else statements), the value is entered into the database without being converted to hours. So, for example, if you enter 2d, the value stored is 2 days, not 16 hours. If you do not specify a unit when entering a value (for example, you enter 2 rather than 2d), the time unit defaults to the time unit specified in user preferences (User Preferences, Time Units tab).
• When connected to a P6 Professional database: If you are applying a global change to a unit or duration field, the Use the assigned calendar to specify the number of work hours for each time period checkbox (on the Admin Preferences, Time Periods tab) is ignored if set. Because it is ignored, the global change applies the unit or duration value based on the Admin Preferences hours per time period settings.

When connected to a P6 EPPM database: If you are applying a global change to a unit or duration field, the Use the assigned calendar to specify the number of work hours for each time period checkbox (set using the P6, Application Settings) is ignored if set. Because it is ignored, the global change applies the unit or duration value based on the Application Settings hours per time period settings.