Using Milestones in Networks

Along with activity elements, PS texts, documents, and material components, you can assign milestones to activities. If you want to use particular milestones several times in project planning, you should create standard milestones, and use these as templates to copy from. Milestones assigned to activities or WBS elements are used in the SAP Project System for the following tasks and functions:

• Information and reporting purposes in the information system and the project planning board.

• Milestone trend analysis.

• Milestone dates in billing plans and milestone billing.

• Defined milestone functions in activities (only for activity milestones).

Milestone functions in a network are predefined by SAP. You can use them to trigger a sequence of steps that carry out a business process. The following milestone functions exist:

• Release subsequent activities.

• Release up to release milestone.

• Include a standard network.

• Create a network.

• Include a sub-network.

• Start a workflow task (user-defined or standard tasks).

You can trigger a milestone function automatically when you change the system status or user status in the activity or manually, if an actual date is defined in the milestone.

There are two types of milestones: activity milestones and WBS element milestones. Milestones can be attached to either WBS elements or network activities.

Milestones assigned to network activities enable the triggering of milestone functions, such as creating a new network, releasing follow-up activities, or starting a workflow task.

You can assign milestones in most transactions for the maintenance of projects. For example: in the Project Builder, you navigate to the WBS element and choose the Milestone Overview button.