sure thing. It"s not difficult but there are a lot of steps and dependencies so bear with me and I"ll just try and sketch out how it works. 1) please note: the only reason I went with this approach is because users specifically wanted to see reporting charts (bar charts). 2) the setup involved the following: * commitment from the PMs to set a baseline when they set the project to active. You can visit Workfront"s help site to find out more about setting up baselines and make your own determination about whether you want to set these up manually or automatically, and if automatically, how to determine which baseline is the most meaningful. Note to Workfront: it would be nice if the default baseline didn"t keep shifting to the newly created baseline, in automatic situations. * creation of a milestone path and milestones. Because we wanted to see the milestones in a specific order (i.e. from start to finish) and because they were showing up in alphabetical order instead, we named the milestones starting with a number. e.g. 01 Project Kickoff, 02 Design, 03 Creative Review. This produced a bar chart showing milestones in the following order: 01, 02, 03, 04. * creation of a task custom form to collect specific data: calculated field (Field1) for the weekdaydiff between the default baseline planned completion date and the actual completion date of the task, and calculated field (Field2) saying "if this difference is >1 then it"s late" (i.e. if it"s more than a day past, then it"s actually late, otherwise you have a day of wiggle room.) * attaching the milestone path to relevant project templates, milestones to template task, and task custom form to relevant template tasks. (since we wanted to give the PMs every opportunity to rearrange their milestones, we just put the form on all tasks and set it up as a recurring task form in case the PM wants to create more tasks and attach milestones to them) 3) creation of reports: these are all task reports. Since we"re interested to show late information, we filter on "Field2 = late". We"re interested in milestones, so we filter on "milestone ID not blank". We have in the View a column for field1, so that anyone looking at the details tab can see exactly how many more days it took. We group by milestone name to produce the actual bars. Put in any other filters you need here, like looking for projects whose status equates with active/complete, or tasks that are not cancelled or skipped. Whatever makes sense from your workflow"s POV. From this point you can duplicate this initial report to make your variations, so that you can look at milestone data in various teams, or templates, or PMs, or from a time standpoint (e.g. each quarter), or whatever else makes sense: these would all be different reports with slightly different, additional filters. Hope that helps--if not, any remote consultant would be able to walk you through these steps in 1-2 hours.
