| Field |
Description |
| Actual Cost (task field) |
The Actual Cost field shows costs incurred for work already performed by resources on their tasks, together with any other recorded costs associated with the task. |
| Actual Duration (task field) |
The Actual Duration field shows the span of actual working time for a task to this point, based on the scheduled duration and current remaining work or percent complete. |
| Actual Finish (task field) |
The Actual Finish field shows the date and time when a task or assignment was completed. |
| Actual Overtime Cost (task field) |
The Actual Overtime Cost field shows costs incurred for overtime work already performed on tasks by assigned resources. |
| Actual Overtime Work (task field) |
The Actual Overtime Work field contains the actual amount of overtime work already performed by resources assigned to tasks. The timephased versions of these fields show values distributed over time. |
| Actual Start (task field) |
The Actual Start field shows the date and time that a task or an assignment actually began, based on progress information that you entered. |
| Actual Work (task field) |
The Actual Work field shows the amount of work that has already been done by resources assigned to tasks. The timephased versions of these fields show values distributed over time. |
| ACWP (task field) |
The ACWP (actual cost of work performed) field shows costs incurred for work already done on a task, up to the project status date or today's date. |
| Assignment Delay (task field) |
The Assignment Delay field shows the time a resource must wait before starting work on an assignment. No information is actually displayed in the Assignment Delay fields; they only make the corresponding Assignment Delay field information available. |
| Assignment Units (task field) |
The Assignment Units field shows how much the assigned resources are allocated to a task. |
Baseline Budget Cost (task field) |
The Baseline Budget Cost field displays the originally planned budget for budget cost resources. Budget resources are assigned only to the project summary task. |
Baseline Budget Work (task field) |
The Baseline Budget Work field displays the originally planned budget work amounts for budget work and material resources. Budget resources are assigned only to the project summary task. |
| Baseline Cost (task field) |
The Baseline Cost field shows the total planned cost for a task, a resource for all assigned tasks, or for work to be performed by a resource on a task. |
Baseline Deliverable Finish (task field) |
The Baseline Deliverable Finish field contains the planned deliverable finish date saved with the project baseline.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
Baseline Deliverable Start (task field) |
The Baseline Deliverable Start field contains the originally planned deliverable start date saved with the project baseline.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Baseline Duration (task field) |
The Baseline Duration field shows the original span of time planned to complete a task. |
| Baseline Finish (task field) |
The Baseline Finish field shows the planned completion date for a task or assignment at the time that you saved a baseline. |
| Baseline Start (task field) |
The Baseline Start field shows the planned start date for a task or assignment at the time that you saved a baseline. |
| Baseline Work (task field) |
The Baseline Work field shows the total planned person-hours scheduled for a task, resource, or assignment. |
Baseline1-10 Budget Cost (task fields) |
The Baseline1 through Baseline 10 Budget Cost fields store the originally planned budget cost amounts for cost resources that are specifically identified as budget resources. |
Baseline1-10 Budget Work (task fields) |
The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Budget Work fields store the originally planned budget work amounts for work resources and material resources that are specifically identified as budget resources. |
| Baseline1-10 Cost (task fields) |
The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Cost fields store the total planned cost for a task, a resource, or an assignment. |
Baseline1-10 Deliverable Finish (task fields) |
The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Deliverable Finish fields contain the planned deliverable finish dates saved with the corresponding project baselines. |
Baseline1-10 Deliverable Start (task fields) |
The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Deliverable Start fields contain the planned deliverable start dates saved with the corresponding project baselines. |
| Baseline1-10 Duration (task fields) |
The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Duration fields store the span of time planned to complete a task. |
| Baseline1-10 Finish (task fields) |
The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Finish fields store the planned completion date for a task or resource assignment at the time that you save a corresponding baseline. |
| Baseline1-10 Start (task fields) |
The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Start fields store the planned start date for a task or assignment at the time that you save a corresponding baseline. |
| Baseline1-10 Work (task fields) |
The Baseline1 through Baseline10 Work fields store the total planned person-hours scheduled for a task, resource, or assignment. |
| BCWP (Earned Value or EV) (task field) |
The BCWP (budgeted cost of work performed) field contains the cumulative value of the task's, resource's, or assignments's percent complete multiplied by the timephased baseline costs. |
| BCWS (Planned Value or PV) (task field) |
The BCWS (budgeted cost of work scheduled) field contains the cumulative timephased baseline costs up to the status date or today's date. |
Budget Cost (task field) |
The Budget Cost field is used to enter or review budget costs for budget cost resources. Budget resources are assigned only to the project summary task. |
Budget Work (task field) |
The Budget Work field is used to enter or review budget work for budget work and material resources. Budget resources are assigned only to the project summary task. |
| Complete Through (task field) |
The Complete Through field shows the progress of a task on the Gantt Chart view, indicating the point up to which actuals have been reported for the task. |
| Confirmed (task field) |
The Confirmed field indicates whether resources assigned to a tasks have accepted or rejected their task assignments. |
| Constraint Date (task field) |
The Constraint Date field shows the specific date associated with certain constraint types, such as Must Start On, Must Finish On, Start No Earlier Than, Start No Later Than, Finish No Earlier Than, and Finish No Later Than. |
| Constraint Type (task field) |
The Constraint Type field provides choices for the type of constraint you can apply for scheduling a task. |
| Contact (task field) |
The Contact field contains the name of an individual responsible for a task. |
| Cost (task field) |
The Cost field shows the total scheduled or projected cost for a task, resource, or assignment, based on costs already incurred for work performed by resources assigned to the tasks, in addition to the costs planned for the remaining work. |
| Cost Rate Table (task field) |
The Cost Rate Table field provides choices for which cost rate table to use for the resources assigned to a task. |
| Cost Variance (task field) |
The Cost Variance assignment field shows the difference between the baseline cost and total cost for a task, resource, or assignment. |
| Cost1-10 (task fields) |
The Cost1 through Cost10 fields can store custom task, resource, or assignment cost information. |
| CPI (task field) |
The CPI (cost performance index) field shows the ratio of budgeted (or baseline) costs of work performed to actual costs of work performed, up to the project status date or today's date. |
| Created (task field) |
The Created field contains the date and time when a task was added to the project. |
| Critical (task field) |
The Critical field indicates whether a task or an assignment's task has any room in the schedule to slip, or if a task is on the critical path. |
| CV (task field) |
The CV (earned value cost variance) field shows the difference between the projected cost and the actual cost required to achieve the current level of completion up to the status date or today's date. |
| CV% (task field) |
The CV% (cost variance percent) field shows the ratio of cost variance (CV) to budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP), expressed as a percentage. |
| Date1-10 (task fields) |
The Date1 through Date10 fields store task, resource, or assignment date information. |
| Deadline (task field) |
The Deadline field shows the date you enter as a deadline for the task. A deadline is a target date that indicates when you want a task to be completed. |
Deliverable Finish (task field) |
For each task that has a deliverable associated with it, the Deliverable Finish field displays the scheduled finish date of that deliverable.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
Deliverable GUID (task field) |
For each task that has a deliverable associated with it, the Deliverable GUID field displays the globally unique identifier (GUID) for that deliverable.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
Deliverable Name (task field) |
For each task that has a deliverable associated with it, the Deliverable Name field displays the name or title of that deliverable.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
Deliverable Start (task field) |
For each task that has a deliverable associated with it, the Deliverable Start field displays the scheduled start date of that deliverable.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
Deliverable Type (task field) |
The Deliverable Type field indicates whether the current task has an associated deliverable, and whether that deliverable is produced by the current task or produced by a separate project or task upon which the current task is dependent.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Duration (task field) |
The Duration field shows the total span of active working time for a task. |
| Duration Variance (task field) |
The Duration Variance field contains the difference between the baseline duration of a task and the total duration (current estimate) of a task. |
| Duration1-10 (task fields) |
The Duration1 through Duration10 fields store any task, resource, or assignment duration information. |
| EAC (task field) |
The EAC (estimate at completion) field shows the expected total cost of a task based on performance up to the status date. |
| Early Finish (task field) |
The Early Finish field contains the earliest date that a task could possibly finish, based on early finish dates of predecessor and successor tasks, other constraints, and any leveling delay. |
| Early Start (task field) |
The Early Start field contains the earliest date that a task could possibly begin, based on the early start dates of predecessor and successor tasks and other constraints. |
| Earned Value Method (task field) |
The Earned Value Method field provides choices for whether the % Complete or Physical % Complete field should be used to calculate budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP). |
| Effort Driven (task field) |
The Effort Driven field indicates whether the scheduling for the task is effort-driven scheduling. |
| Enterprise Cost1-10 (task fields) |
The Enterprise Cost1 through Enterprise Cost10 fields can store any custom task, resource, or assignment cost information as defined by your project management administrator or other user who has administrative permissions.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Enterprise Date1-30 (task fields) |
The Enterprise Date1 through Enterprise Date30 fields can store any custom task, resource, or assignment date information as defined by your project management administrator or other user who has administrative permissions.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Enterprise Duration1-10 (task fields) |
The Enterprise Duration1 through Enterprise Duration10 fields can store any custom task, resource, or assignment duration information as defined by your project management administrator or other user who has administrative permissions.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Enterprise Flag1-20 (task fields) |
The Enterprise Flag1 through Enterprise Flag20 fields can store any custom task, resource, or assignment flag information as defined by your project management administrator or other user who has administrative permissions.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Enterprise Number1-40 (task fields) |
The Enterprise Project Number1 through Enterprise Project Number40 fields can store any custom project number information as defined by your project management administrator or other user who has administrative permissions.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Enterprise Task Outline Code1-30 (task fields) |
The Enterprise Task Outline Code1 through Enterprise Task Outline Code30 fields contain an alphanumeric code that represents a flat list or hierarchical structure of tasks (for example, cost accounting codes associated with tasks).
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Enterprise Text1-40 (task fields) |
The Enterprise Text1 through Enterprise Text40 fields can store any custom text information for tasks, resources, or assignments as defined by your project management administrator or other user who has administrative permissions
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
Error Message (task field) |
The Error Message field is used by the Import Resources Wizard and Import Project Wizard to show errors upon importing resource and task information respectively into Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Estimated (task field) |
The Estimated field indicates whether the task's duration is flagged as an estimate. |
| Expected Duration (task field) |
The Expected Duration field contains the total span of active working time expected for a task; that is, the time from the expected start to expected finish of a task. |
| Expected Finish (task field) |
The Expected Finish field contains the date at which the task is expected to be finished. |
| Expected Start (task field) |
The Expected Start field contains the date at which the task is expected to start. |
| External Task (task field) |
The External Task field indicates whether the task is linked from another project or whether it originated in the current project. |
| Finish (task field) |
The Finish field shows the date when a task is scheduled to be completed. |
| Finish Slack (task field) |
The Finish Slack field contains the duration between the Early Finish and Late Finish dates. |
| Finish Variance (task field) |
The Finish Variance field contains the time that represents the difference between the baseline finish date of a task or assignment and its current finish date. |
| Finish1-10 (task fields) |
The Finish1 through Finish10 fields can store any task, resource, or assignment finish date information. |
| Fixed Cost Accrual (task field) |
The Fixed Cost Accrual field provides choices for how and when fixed costs are to be charged, or accrued, to the cost of a task. |
| Fixed Cost (task field) |
The Fixed Cost field shows any nonresource task expense. |
| Flag1-20 (task fields) |
The Flag1 through Flag20 fields indicate whether a task, resource, or assignment is marked for additional action or identification of some kind. |
| Free Slack (task field) |
The Free Slack field contains the time that a task can be delayed without delaying any successor tasks. |
| Group By Summary (task field) |
The Group By Summary field indicates whether this row in the task or resource sheet is the summary row for tasks or resources grouped by a particular category. |
| Hide Bar (task field) |
The Hide Bar field indicates whether the Gantt bars and Calendar bars for a task are hidden. |
| Hyperlink (task field) |
The Hyperlink field shows the title or explanatory text for a hyperlink associated with a task, resource, or assignment. |
| Hyperlink Address (task field) |
The Hyperlink Address field contains the address for a hyperlink associated with a task, resource, or assignment. |
| Hyperlink Href (task field) |
The Hyperlink Href field contains the combination, or concatenation, of the Hyperlink Address and Hyperlink SubAddress fields associated with a task, resource, or assignment. |
| Hyperlink SubAddress (task field) |
The Hyperlink SubAddress field contains the specific location in a document in a hyperlink associated with a task, resource, or assignment. |
| ID (task field) |
The ID field contains the identifier number that Project 2007 automatically assigns to each task or resource as you add them to the project. |
| Ignore Resource Calendar (task field) |
The Ignore Resource Calendar field indicates whether the scheduling of the task considers the calendars of the resources assigned to the task. |
| Indicators (task field) |
The Indicators field displays indicators that give different types of information about a task or resource. |
| Late Finish (task field) |
The Late Finish field contains the latest date that a task can finish without delaying the finish of the project. |
| Late Start (task field) |
The Late Start field contains the latest date that a task can start without delaying the finish of the project. |
| Level Assignments (task field) |
The Level Assignments field indicates whether the leveling function can delay and split individual assignments (instead of the whole task) in order to resolve overallocations. |
| Leveling Can Split (task field) |
The Leveling Can Split field indicates whether the resource leveling function can cause splits on remaining work on this task. |
| Leveling Delay (task field) |
The Leveling Delay field contains the time that a task or assignment is to be delayed from its early start date because of resource leveling. |
| Linked Fields (task field) |
The Linked Fields field indicates whether there are OLE links to the task, resource, or assignment, either from elsewhere in this project file, from another Project 2007 file, or from another program. |
| Marked (task field) |
The Marked task field indicates whether a task is marked for additional action or identification of some kind. |
| Milestone (task field) |
The Milestone field indicates whether a task is a milestone. |
| Name (task field) |
The Name field contains the name of a task or a resource. |
| Negative Slack (task field) |
The Negative Slack field shows the amount of negative slack for a task on the Gantt Chart view, indicating the time that must be saved so that successor tasks are not delayed. |
| Notes (task field) |
The Notes field contains comments you can enter about a task, resource, or assignment. |
| Number1-20 (task fields) |
The Number1 through Number20 fields store any numeric information that you want to include in your project that relate to tasks, resources, or assignments. |
| Objects (task field) |
The Objects field contains the number of objects attached to a task or associated with a resource. |
| Optimistic Duration (task field) |
The Optimistic Duration field contains the best-case possibility for the total span of active working time expected for a task, that is, the time from the optimistic start to the optimistic finish of a task. |
| Optimistic Finish (task field) |
The Optimistic Finish field contains the date that represents the best-case possibility for when a task could finish. |
| Optimistic Start (task field) |
The Optimistic Start field contains the date that represents the best-case possibility for when a task could start. |
| Outline Code1-10 (task fields) |
The Outline Code1 through Outline Code10 fields contain an alphanumeric code you define to represent a hierarchical structure of tasks or resources. |
| Outline Level (task field) |
The Outline Level field indicates the put of a task or assignment in the project outline hierarchy. |
| Outline Number (task field) |
The Outline Number field contains the number that represents a task's position in the hierarchical outline structure. |
| Overallocated (task field) |
The Overallocated field indicates whether a resource is assigned to more work on a specific task or all tasks than can be completed within normal working capacity. |
| Overtime Cost (task field) |
The Overtime Cost field shows the total overtime cost for a task, for a resource on all assigned tasks, or for a resource assignment. |
| Overtime Work (task field) |
The Overtime Work field contains the amount of overtime scheduled to be performed by all resources assigned to a task, for all tasks assigned to a resource, or by a resource on a task, and charged at the overtime rates of the resources involved. |
| Percent (%) Complete (task field) |
The % Complete field contains the current status of a task, expressed as the percentage of the task's duration that has been completed. |
| Percent (%) Work Complete (task field) |
The % Work Complete field contains the current status of a task, resource, or assignment, expressed as the percentage of work that has been completed. |
| Pessimistic Duration (task field) |
The Pessimistic Duration field contains the worst-case possibility for the total span of active working time expected for a task, that is, the time from the pessimistic start to the pessimistic finish of a task. You can enter this date as part of a PERT analysis calculation. |
| Pessimistic Finish (task field) |
The Pessimistic Finish field contains the date that represents the worst-case possibility for when a task could finish. You can enter this date as part of a PERT analysis calculation. |
| Pessimistic Start (task field) |
The Pessimistic Start field contains the date that represents the worst-case possibility for when a task could start. You can enter this date as part of a PERT analysis calculation. |
| Physical Percent (%) Complete (task field) |
The Physical % Complete field shows an entered percent complete value that can be be used as an alternative for calculating budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP). |
| Predecessors (task field) |
The Predecessors field lists the task ID numbers for the predecessor tasks on which the task depends before it can be started or finished. |
| Preleveled Finish (task field) |
The Preleveled Finish field contains the finish date of a task as it was before resource leveling was done. |
| Preleveled Start (task field) |
The Preleveled Start field contains the start date of a task as it was before resource leveling was done. |
| Priority (task field) |
The Priority field indicates the level of importance given to a task, which in turn indicates how readily a task or assignment can be delayed or split during resource leveling. |
| Project (task field) |
The Project field shows the name of the subprojects where tasks, resources, or assignments originate. |
Publish (task field) |
The Publish field indicates whether the current task should be published to Project Server 2007 with the rest of the project. By default, this field is set to Yes.
Office Project Professional 2007 only |
| Recurring (task field) |
The Recurring field indicates whether a task is part of a series of recurring tasks. |
| Regular Work (task field) |
The Regular Work field shows the total amount of nonovertime work scheduled to be performed by resources. |
| Remaining Cost (task field) |
The Remaining Cost field shows the remaining scheduled expense that will be incurred in completing the remaining scheduled work. |
| Remaining Duration (task field) |
The Remaining Duration field shows the time that is required to complete the unfinished part of a task. |
| Remaining Overtime Cost (task field) |
The Remaining Overtime Cost field shows the remaining scheduled overtime expense for a task, resource, or assignment. |
| Remaining Overtime Work (task field) |
The Remaining Overtime Work field shows the amount of remaining scheduled overtime. |
| Remaining Work (task field) |
The Remaining Work field shows the time, such as person-hours or days, still required to complete a task or set of tasks. |
| Resource Group (task field) |
The Resource Group field contains the groups to which resources belong. |
| Resource Initials (task field) |
The Resource Initials field shows the abbreviations for the names of resources. |
| Resource Names (task field) |
The Resource Names field lists the names of all resources assigned to a task. |
| Resource Phonetics (task field) |
The Resource Phonetics field is used only in the Japanese version of Project 2007. |
| Resource Type (task field) |
The Resource Type field indicates whether resources assigned to this task are work or material resources. |
| Response Pending (task field) |
The Response Pending field indicates whether an acknowledgement has been received from team members assigned to tasks. |
| Resume (task field) |
The Resume field shows the date that the remaining part of a task is scheduled to resume after you enter any progress, for example, % Complete, % Work Complete, Actual Work, Actual Duration, or Actual Start. |
| Rollup (task field) |
For subtasks, the Rollup field indicates whether information about the subtask Gantt bars will be rolled up to the summary task bar |
| SPI (task field) |
The SPI (schedule performance index) field shows the ratio of the budgeted cost of work performed to the budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWP/BCWS). |
| Start (task field) |
The Start field shows the date when an assigned resource is scheduled to begin working on a task. |
| Start Slack (task field) |
The Start Slack field contains the duration between the Early Start and Late Start dates. The |
| Start Variance (task field) |
The Start Variance field contains the time that represents the difference between a baseline start date of a task or assignment and its currently scheduled start date. |
| Start1-10 (task fields) |
The Start1 through Start10 fields show any specific task, resource, or assignment start date information that you want to enter and store separately in your project. |
| Status (task field) |
The Status field indicates the current status of a task: Complete, On Schedule, Late, or Future Task. |
| Status Indicator (task field) |
The Status Indicator field displays an icon that represents the current status of a task. |
Status Manager (task field) |
The Status Manager field contains the name of the enterprise resource who is to receive status updates for the current task from resources working in Microsoft Office Project Web Access
. |
| Stop (task field) |
The Stop field shows the date that represents the end of the actual portion of a task. |
| Subproject File (task field) |
The Subproject File field contains the name of a project inserted into the active project file. |
| Subproject Read Only (task field) |
The Subproject Read Only field indicates whether the subproject of this task is a read-only project. |
| Successors (task field) |
The Successors field lists the task ID numbers for the successor tasks to a task. |
| Summary (task field) |
The Summary field indicates whether a task is a summary task. |
| Summary Progress (task field) |
The Summary Progress field shows the progress on a summary task, based on the progress of its subtasks and where these subtasks have been scheduled. |
| SV (task field) |
The SV (earned value schedule variance) field shows the difference in cost between the current progress and the baseline plan of a task, all assigned tasks of a resource, or for an assignment up to the status date or today's date. |
| SV Percent (%) (task field) |
The SV% (schedule variance percent) field shows the ratio of schedule variance (SV) to budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS), expressed as a percentage. |
| Task Calendar (task field) |
The Task Calendar field lists all calendars available to be applied to a task. |
Task Calendar GUID (task field) |
The Task Calendar GUID field contains the generated unique identification codes for each task calendar in your project. No two task calendars will have the same Task Calendar GUID. |
Task GUID (task field) |
The Task GUID field contains the generated unique identification codes for each task in your project. |
| TCPI (task field) |
The TCPI (to complete performance index) field shows the ratio of the work remaining to be done to funds remaining to be spent, as of the status date. |
| TeamStatus Pending (task field) |
The TeamStatus Pending field indicates whether you've received a response to a progress request you've sent to a resource about assigned tasks. |
| Text Above (task field) |
The Text Above field indicates where text on the subtask Gantt bars appears when rolled up to the summary task bar. |
| Text1-30 (task fields) |
The Text1 through Text30 fields store any text information that you want to include in your project about tasks, resources, or assignments. |
| Total Slack (task field) |
The Total Slack field contains the time a task's finish date can be delayed without delaying the project's finish date. |
| Type (task field) |
The Type field provides choices that control the effect that editing work, assignment units, or duration has on the calculations of the other two fields. |
| Unique ID (task field) |
The Unique ID field contains the number that Project 2007 automatically designates whenever a new task, resource, or assignment is created in the current project. |
| Unique ID Predecessors (task field) |
The Unique ID Predecessors field lists the unique ID numbers for the predecessor tasks on which a task depends before it can be started or finished. |
| Unique ID Successors (task field) |
The Unique ID Successors field lists the unique ID numbers for the successor tasks to a task. |
| Update Needed (task field) |
The Update Needed field indicates whether a Project Server 2007 update should be sent to the assigned team members because of changes to a task's start date, finish date, or assignments. |
| VAC (task field) |
The VAC field shows the variance at completion (VAC), which is the difference between the budgeted at completion (BAC) or baseline cost and estimated at completion (EAC) cost for a task, resource, or assignment on a task. |
| WBS (task field) |
The WBS field contains work breakdown structure (WBS) codes. |
| WBS Predecessors (task field) |
The WBS Predecessors field lists the work breakdown structure (WBS) codes associated with the predecessor tasks on which the task depends before it can start or finish. |
| WBS Successors (task field) |
The WBS Successors field lists the work breakdown structure (WBS) codes associated with the successor tasks. |
| Work (task field) |
The Work field shows the total time scheduled on a task for all assigned resources, the total time to which a resource is scheduled on all assigned tasks, or the total amount of time scheduled for a resource on a task. |
| Work Contour (task field) |
The Work Contour field provides choices for the contour shape to use for the resources assigned to a task. |
| Work Variance (task field) |
The Work Variance field contains the difference between baseline work of a task, resource, or assignment and the currently scheduled work. |
