Lost Critical path

[Jpstewar]

A colleague of mine is working on a rather complex schedule. To date we've
been able to find the critical path. Last night he made some changes to it
and now the CP has disappeared, utterly gone. I can't imagine why this is
since there are a bunch of tasks that are linked so you would think it would
show *some* CP even if inaccurate. Can anyone list reasons why the CP would
not appear? Time is somewhat of the essence on this one as we are presenting
the CP this morning to start a crashing exercise. Thanks

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Have you added a field called Critical to the table on the left? It may
just be that the Gantt Chart isn't displaying the bars in red - maybe you
changed the view inadvertently.

1) Add the Critical field. Confirm that some tasks display "Yes."
2) Toggle to the Tracking Gantt. That may solve your problems.
3) Go back to the original Gantt and run the Gantt Chart Wizard. (the magic
wand looking thingy)


- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm

 

[Rob Schneider]

Did it disappear from the Gantt Chart? Perhaps just turned off from
display? Use the Gantt Chart Wizard to turn it back on? (Menu:
Format/Gantt Chart Wizard).

If that doesn't do it; what changes were made? Can you go back to a
version before those changes?

--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[Jim Aksel]

The critical path is easily obscured if you key dates. Keyed dates establish
a "start/finish no earlier than" constraint that quickly obscures the
critical path.

In addition to the suggestions already posted, consider inserting the
Constraint Type and Constraint Date columns. You want as many tasks as
possible to be of type "As Soon As Possible"
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[vanita]

Hi

Check if there is an imposed date constraint for the last activity.

Due to modifications in the schedule, if the project is finishing before
this imposed date, you may lose the critical path.

I hope it helps.
Vanita