Deadlines & Retirements
Open Message Center items with an "action required by" date or a retirement: what's overdue and what's coming up.
The Deadlines & Retirements page lists the open Message Center items that Microsoft says need action by a date, and the items tagged as retirements, longest overdue first. Each item shows its owner and the Service Owner for its product category, so you can see who needs to act.
To open it, select Deadlines & Retirements under Dashboards & Reports in the ChangePilot App's left-hand menu.
Which items are shown
Open items (any status except Closed; a blank status counts as open) that have Microsoft's "action required by" date, or the Retirement tag, or both.
Each item's deadline is its "action required by" date. For a retirement without one, it's the Standard Start, or the Standard End if there's no start date.
Filters
- Product Category: choose one or more categories, or leave it empty to see them all. Each category shows its number of items.
- Timeframe: Next 30 days, Next 60 days, Next 90 days (the default) or All upcoming. It sets how far ahead Coming up looks. Overdue items are always shown, whatever the timeframe.
- Show: All (the default), Action required or Retirements.
ChangePilot remembers your choices while you move around the app.
Counters
| Counter | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Overdue | Items whose deadline has passed. |
| Due in the next 14 days | Items due from today to 14 days ahead. |
| Due in the next 90 days | Items due within the timeframe you chose. With All upcoming, it's called Upcoming. |
| Retirements (open) | Open retirements in your selection, whatever their date. |
The lists
- Overdue: items whose deadline has passed, oldest first.
- Coming up: items due from today to the end of the timeframe, soonest first.
- Retirements without a date: open retirements with no action required by, start or end date. This list appears only when there are some.
Each row shows the MCID, Title, Product category, Type (Action required, Retirement or both), Deadline, Status, Owner and Service owner. Under the deadline, a label says how far off it is, such as Overdue by 12 days, Due today or In 5 days: red when overdue, amber within 14 days, and blue after that.
Ten items are visible at a time; scroll inside a list to see the rest, and select an MCID to open the item.
Good to know
- Service Owners come from your ChangePilot service owner settings. A category with none shows None set.
- The page shows the items you have access to in ChangePilot.
- Figures are worked out when the page opens. If items have been updated since, select Refresh.
- Your company logo comes from the Company Logo setting. See Landing Page for how to set it.