About the program timeline

As a Program Planning stakeholder, program or project manager, or team member, you can use the program timeline to view the entire program, including projects, subprojects, and events, in one convenient graphical timeline. As a program manager, you can use the dashboard to add or modify programs, projects, and events.

Tip: To select multiple events, hold the Ctrl key as you select them. To zoom in and out of the program timeline, hold the Ctrl key and scroll using your trackpad or mouse. If the program table has a horizontal scroll bar and the program timeline does not (or vice versa), scrolling to the bottom of the vertical scroll bar may misalign the last row — fix this by scrolling the vertical scroll bar up slightly.

I want to:

• Show a selected program object's details in a summary view below the timeline.
• View deliverable dependencies from the timeline.
• Create projects and subprojects from a template within an active program.
• Modify program properties directly from the timeline.
• Go directly to a specified date on the program timeline.
• Manage resource assignments for an event.
• Change the program timeline view.
• Search for an event or deliverable instance.
• Filter the program timeline.
• Set the event color on the timeline.
• Change the timeline zoom level.
• Quickly add or delete projects, subprojects, and events.
• Display event information directly on the timeline.
• Arrange the columns in the program timeline.
• Shift an event date along with any dependent secondary events.
• View schedule milestones on the program timeline.
• Manage event dependencies from the timeline.

Other actions you can perform from the program timeline

You can also perform other actions from the timeline, such as rearranging the program hierarchy, opening an object, or changing the planned date for events.

Rearrange the program hierarchy

If you want to rearrange your program hierarchy, select the project or subproject you want to move up or down. Next, click Move Up to move the selection up in the hierarchy, or click Move Down to move it down.

Note: If your project or subproject contains child plan levels, you can only move the child plan up or down within the parent plan hierarchy. You cannot move the child plan to a different parent plan or move it out of its parent.

Open a program object from the timeline

To open a project, subproject, or event, hover over the object on the timeline and select Open. For events, the Open icon is displayed inside the tooltip. For projects and subprojects, the Open icon is displayed next to the plan level when the object line is selected.

Change plan date for events on the program timeline

You can drag an event to different locations on the program timeline to change the planned date. This allows you to quickly replan events without having to change the dates from within each event.

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