Misc. - Progress Spotlight

OVERVIEW – The Progress Spotlight feature highlights the activities that should have started or finished during a specified time period. To access this feature, choose View, Progress Spotlight, or click the Progress Spotlight icon on the toolbar. You can also drag the data date line until you reach the new date you want. The Project Management module highlights the activities that fall between the last data date and the new data date. If you have multiple projects open, the Project Management module uses the data date of the default project (Project, Set Default Project) as the start of the highlighted time period. The Project Management module automatically uses the date interval you are showing for the timescale to select the new data date. For example, if the minimum date interval for the timescale is set to Day, the new data date will be the next day. Once you spotlight activities, you can automatically status them or manually update them.

To make it easier to use Progress Spotlight, set up your timescale so that the smallest increment is equal to your update periods. That way, when you turn this feature on, the highlighted curtain will indicate the update period immediately and eliminate the necessity of adjusting the data date. For example, if you update weekly, set the timescale to weekly increments; right-click on the Gantt Chart and select Timescale, and select a weekly Date Interval.

When you spotlight activities by dragging the data date line or by using the Progress Spotlight feature, the Project Management module turns off automatic scheduling. Choose Tools, Schedule, or press F9 to reschedule after you finish updating; the Project Management module recalculates the schedule and turns automatic scheduling back on. - Primavera

1. Open the STP – Steps project.
   
   
2. Click the Progress Spotlight button on the main toolbar.
   
   
3. All activities that are scheduled to occur during the next update period that is determined by what interval on your timescale you have set should now be highlighted. 
   
   
4. If you would like to resize the spotlight, click and hold the edge of the spotlight on the latest date and drag it to the desired date.  As you are moving the spotlight, the activities in the activity table will either become spotlighted or lose their spotlighting depending upon which way you are dragging the spotlight.
   
   
5. Simply click the Progress Spotlight button again to remove the spotlight.

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