Overview

You can drag and drop activities within a project in Activity Center. It is a convenient way to quickly relocate an activity, make it some other task's child, etc. Moving is available either from one level to another, i.e. a child can be moved to one of the higher levels, or a parent can be made a child of some other activity. You can also rearrange the order of activities by drag-n-drop. Whenever you see a handle in the shape of dots that appear when hovering the mouse pointer over an activity, you can move that activity to another location.

Moving an activity

To move an activity:

1. Hover the mouse over the activity until the cursor changes to a closed hand and a handle () appears.
2. Press the left button and drag the activity to a new destination. It can be the same project, i.e. the top level, other activity, in which case the activity will become its child. Birdview will detect if the moving can be completed to the selected destination or not, and will use the appropriate indication. See the illustration below.
3. Release the button to 'drop' the activity at its new location.

Move impossible message

In case an activity cannot be moved by drag-n-drop, you will see a message in the bottom left corner, like so:

Moving to rearrange the order of activities

You can change the current location of an activity by drag-n-drop. See above for the steps how to use drag-n-drop. 

1. Hover the mouse over the activity until the cursor changes to a closed hand and the handle () appears.
2. Press the left button and start to drag the activity to a new position. 
3. When you see a thick blue line, release the button to 'drop' the activity at its new location.

Cases when moving is not allowed

There are a few conditions when an activity cannot be moved by drag-n-drop:

• when other sorting than WBS is on;
• when trying to move it to another project;
• if it is a top-level activity: to the top level of the project, i.e. when dragging it onto the project*; and
• if it is a parent: when trying to move it under any of its own children.

* The current functionality does not prohibit moving a top-level activity onto a project, insofar there is no red "X" mark, but when you drop the activity the result is not what you expected.