Use this to copy one entire master schedule set to another master schedule
set for later comparison or for simulation purposes. For example, if master
schedules are planned at the beginning of a planning period and wants to have
it after certain period of time for comparisons to check the deviations from
the actual plan, this can be used to copy your initial master schedule plan
to a different master schedule set and use it for later comparisons as mentioned
earlier. You can keep many number of such sets of your plan from different time
instances and can use for comparisons as well.
Note: Copy Entire Master
Schedule and Copy Forecast differs from each other. Copy Forecast, copy only
the forecast on a selected set to another while Copy Entire Master Schedule,
copy the whole schedule including forecasts and other scheduling values as well.
To perform this activity, a master schedule activity must be created.
As a result of this activity, the entire level 0 master schedule is copied to the destination MS set. If there was a master schedule already in the destination set, then it will be replaced.