Convert a work package to a WBS element

Work packages are the lowest level elements in the WBS hierarchy. The hierarchy contains work packages for different functional organizations. Work packages are the actual tasks tracked in the schedule, whereas all the intermediate elements between the WBS root and work packages are called WBS elements.

You may want to further break work packages into multiple work elements. To do this, you should first convert each such work package to a WBS element.

Select the work package to convert and then choose Edit → Convert to WBS Element.

The system performs the following checks and, if successful, it completes the conversion:

• There are no FWPs attached to the work package.
• There are no risks or opportunities attached to the work package.
• There are no pending FWP requests for the work package.
• The work package does not have any predecessor or successor relations.
• The work package is not attached to any criteria.