Copying tasks and rolling up/down dates

[Marina]

Can you copy tasks, change one date and roll up/down other dates?

 

[Rob Schneider]

Can you copy tasks, change one date and roll up/down other dates?

One can certainly copy tasks (via Windows clipboard) and after copy
change a date (you don't say which one). But what does "roll up/down
other dates?"

Are you hard-coding start/finish dates? If yes, then you should not be
doing this. It is bad practice for you to enter this. Let Project do
those computations for you.

 

[Marina]

Thank you for your reply Rob. Specifically what I am looking for is to copy
an entire subset of tasks that exist in a project today (since these will be
identical tasks each time a new "event" is planned) and make a change to the
starting task and have the rest of the dates automatically change with
respect to the new "start date" keeping all durations and other information
in tact. Does this make sense?

 

[Rob Schneider]

If you intend to create a MPP new file for each new "event", then
consider making a Template for the framework logic of the "event". BUT,
ensure you are are defining the project correctly, e.g. not as DATES but
as tasks with "fixed duration", or "fixed units", or "fixed work".

Or, if it's tasks copied from "above" down "below" inside of the same
file, again, if constructed correctly without dates but with "fixed
duration", or "fixed units", or "fixed work", you only have to fix the
date of the start task of the "event", or even better make the
predecessor task one of the tasks above.

I get the sense that you have built project plans where you input the
start and/or finish dates of the tasks ... and that's the wrong thing to
do with Project.