Creating Milestones

A milestone is a group of tasks within a project. Milestones help you track a project at various levels and manages the internal dependencies within a set of tasks.

To create a milestone within a project, do the following steps:

1. From the Program Management tab, click Projects > All Projects.
2. Open an existing project, and click Milestones > Create.
3. Select the type of milestone from the Type drop-down list.
4. Enter the Name and Description.
5. Click Save.
   Notes:

   • The values for the Start Date and End Date fields are updated based on the start and end dates of the associated tasks. For example, if a milestone contains four tasks, the earliest start date of a task and the latest end date of another task are considered as start and end dates for the milestone.
   • When a string data type is written to the database, the database character set converts the string into bytes. The standard string attribute definition ensures that the size of the database table column is proportional to the size of the attribute character. This attribute definition allows any number of characters to be written to the database, and is limited only by the size of the character. The database validation does not allow the character size to be greater than the defined size of the attribute. If this limitation is exceeded, an error message indicates that the character length exceeds the maximum allowed size in the database.

     However, the character size of the Description attribute is set to 2000 characters, and the database table column does not follow the proportionality rule. To maintain compatibility with an earlier version, the Description attribute is validated against the converted byte count instead of the string length. If the converted byte value of the string is greater than the allowed size of the database column, an error message indicates that the character length exceeds the maximum allowed size in the database.