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What is Baseline Budget Cost field?
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The Baseline Budget Cost field displays the originally planned budget for budget cost resources. Budget resources are assigned only to the project summary task.
What is Base Calendar field?
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The Base Calendar field indicates which calendar is the base calendar for a resource calendar.
What is Available To field?
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The Available To field shows the end date that a resource is available for work at the units specified for the current time period.
What is Available From field?
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The Available From field shows the starting date that a resource is available for work at the units specified for the current time period.
What is Assumptions field?
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The Assumptions field contains key assumptions for the current proposal. This field is controlled by the workflow.
What is Assignment Units field?
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The Assignment Units field shows how much the assigned resources are allocated to a task.
What is Assignment Owner field?
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The Assignment Owner field contains the name of the user who is responsible for entering status in Project Web App for the current assignment.
What is Assignment field?
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The Assignment field indicates whether the row is an assignment row instead of a task or resource row.
What is Assignment Delay field?
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The Assignment Delay field shows the time a resource must wait before starting work on an assignment. No information is actually displayed in the Assignment Delay fields; they only make the corresponding Assignment Delay field information available.
What is Areas Impacted field?
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The Areas Impacted field contains examples of areas that could be affected by a proposal, as selected in the Areas Impacted lookup table, which is shipped with Microsoft Project Server and can be modified to reflect the organization's specific areas. This field is controlled by the workflow.
What is ACWP field?
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The ACWP (actual cost of work performed) field shows costs incurred for work already done on a task, up to the project status date or today's date.
What is Actual Work field?
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The Actual Work field shows the amount of work that has already been done by resources assigned to tasks. The timephased versions of these fields show values distributed over time.
What is Actual Start field?
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The Actual Start field shows the date and time that a task or an assignment actually began, based on progress information that you entered.
What is Actual Overtime Work field?
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The Actual Overtime Work field contains the actual amount of overtime work already performed by resources assigned to tasks. The timephased versions of these fields show values distributed over time.
What is Actual Overtime Cost field?
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The Actual Overtime Cost field shows costs incurred for overtime work already performed on tasks by assigned resources.
What is Actual Fixed Cost field?
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The Actual Fixed Cost field shows actual timephased non-resource task expenses, charged over time according to the cost accrual method you've selected.
What is Actual Finish field?
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The Actual Finish field shows the date and time when a task or assignment was completed.
What is Actual Duration field?
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The Actual Duration field shows the span of actual working time for a task to this point, based on the scheduled duration and current remaining work or percent complete.
What is Actual Cost field?
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The Actual Cost field shows costs incurred for work already performed by resources on their tasks together with any other recorded costs associated with the task.
What is Active field?
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The Active field is useful when various proposals are being presented for a Project plan and ultimately one course of action will be selected. The Active field is also useful when a task or set of tasks is being cut because of a scaling back of project scope.
What is Accrue At field?
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The Accrue At field provides choices for how and when resource standard and overtime costs are to be charged, or accrued, to the cost of a task.
What is a summary Task?
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A summary task is a higher level task, grouping related activities. Summary tasks behave as recipients and their content is addressed as subtasks.

What does the “Project Information” functionality do?
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The “Project Information” functionality, as the name describes it, can be used to enter, review, or change initial information for a new project. You can change the project start date, Status date and Calendar.
What does the “Go To” functionality do?
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The “Go To” functionality selects the task or resource based on the task ID or resource ID you specify, or scrolls to the date you specify. It applies only for the tasks or resources that are not filtered out in the current view.

What does the "Scroll To" functionality do?
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The "Scroll To" functionality will automatically display the task bar for the selected task within the Gantt Chart view.
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