Symptom
You have observed that despite making changes and activating the baseline details, it seems that they have not had any impact on the actual project.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
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A project is created. (A base line is created automatically or manually)
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You need to make a change to the original project, so a new baseline is generated and sent to approval (at this time, there are 2 base lines one in approval and another with pending changes
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In the new baseline the changes are not accepted but requires an additional change, so you withdraw he base line form approval and then new baseline is edited and resubmitted for approval.
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The new baseline is activated and the other lines are obsolete.
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A a new baseline is changed and activated it has no effect on the actual project
Cause
Specifically, deviations from the original plan with respect to work planning and scheduling are tracked and monitored by the project manager and project stakeholders using baselines. When you edit the baseline you shall not have the project base line same as project, cause in general baseline is an external view of project that you want to get approval from stakeholder so it may be different than project. Project manager shall decide in general what changes are required and also whether approvals is required or not to the base line.
Resolution
You may use the report :Project Variance by Project Structure Report to see details of Baseline so that you can have track of such changes which did not reflect in project. We accept that this could be required some times and we never had the updation of Baseline on to project thus its a new requirement for us. So either reach your Partners to help you
or
Post all new requirements on Customer Influence Forum at https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#campaign/886
See Also
2945624 - Project not released after baseline is approved
Keywords
Edited baseline details are not updated in the project , KBA , changed baseline , SRD-PRO-PMN , Project Management , Problem