Creating a Project Schedule without specific dates

[Barry]

I want to create a Project schedule that does not have specific
calendar dates on it. I would prefer that it display delta time (day
1, day 2, week 1, week 2, etc). Now I know how to make the timeline
show the gantt chart with these headers, but the program itself still
wants a calendar start date and still wants tasks to begin on specific
dates based on the calendar.

Is there any way to get the program to work other than cheating a
start date and other calendar dates to get the result?

Thanks,

Barry

 

[Rob Schneider]

I want to create a Project schedule that does not have specific
calendar dates on it. I would prefer that it display delta time (day
1, day 2, week 1, week 2, etc). Now I know how to make the timeline
show the gantt chart with these headers, but the program itself still
wants a calendar start date and still wants tasks to begin on specific
dates based on the calendar.

Is there any way to get the program to work other than cheating a
start date and other calendar dates to get the result?

Thanks,

Barry

Normally, one should not create a schedule by inputing start/finish
dates. To do it that way adds too many complex and artificial
constraints (the dates) which then precludes Project from then being of
much use for project planning and is not a Project best practice.
Better to define the schedule in terms of work and duration along with
with a definition of task logic (successors and predecessors) and
resource assignments. This then allows Project to compute the schedule.
Then you can not only achieve what you want, but when in the future you
actually specify a project start date, you just have to re-set the
project start date and the project gets rescheduled with the revised
start. That would be virtually impossible if all tasks had been defined
with start/end dates.

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hello Barry,

I will add that if you want to display the relatives dates of each task
(calculated from the start date or from the finish date or from an
intermediate milestone)
you can calculate them with a formula which uses the DateDiff function :
DateDiff( interval; date1; date2; firstdayofweek; firstweekofyear )
Nb : for "interval", use "d" for days, "w" for weeks.
You can also use the ProjDateDiff( date1; date2; calendar ) function which
takes into account the calendar.
NB : As Rob told you, never introduce parasite constraintes by inputing
start/finish dates.

Gérard Ducouret