Current Date doesn't match Status Date

[Conrad Santiago]

When using these calculation options, "move end of completed parts back to
status date" and "move start of remaining parts forward to status date", I
noticed that the result is different when the status date is set to the
current date.

According to the Help documentation, when the Status Date is set to "NA",
the Status Date defaults to the Current Date. However, when you set the
Status Date to the Current Date, the Status Date is a day after the Current
Date.

When I set the Status Date to "NA", it's updating the task as if the work
was done yesterday. When I set the Status Date to the Current Date, it
updates the task as if the work was done today (which is what I want,
however, I don't want to be resetting the Status Date to the Current Date
everyday).

Is there a way to have the Current Date set to "NA", and have it update the
actual work today and not yesterday?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Conrad,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

This is because the Current Date begins at 0800 (if the default has not been
changed) whereas the Status Date is timed at cease of work for that day, ie
the default of 1700 hours, so the next working moment is 0800 the next day.
If you show a date format that has times in it, via Tools/Options../View
tab, you can see this better.

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Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
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[Conrad Santiago]

Thanks for the response, Mike. This is as I expected. If I'm
understanding this, to achieve what I want, I must either...

set the current day to tomorrow or...

set the default start and default end time to the same time (which doesn't
sound logical).

I don't suppose there is a way to set the Status Date to the default start
instead of the default end.
Or is there a way to set the Status Date to the Current Date on a daily
basis without having to manually set it?

Any other suggestions would be helpful.

--Conrad Santiago

 

[John Sitka]

I think a macro with this command is one step towards a solution.

Sub Set_StatusDate_and_Tracking()
ProjectSummaryInfo StatusDate:=Now
End Sub

The Now values allow a status to be set with time.
Attach the macro to a custom menu button and hit
it when you open the project.
I'm not sure is ProjectSummaryInfo CurrentDate
is a property or not but it's a starting point.

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Conrad,

It takes only a few clicks to set the Status Date in Project/Information...
I can't think why you would be considering doing this every day.
Rescheduelling a project is something you do infrequently when there is a
major problem or a general trend to run late. In, for example, a 3-month
project, one would probably reschedule the project twice or three times.
More than that would be considered to be over-management.

Mike Glen
Project MVP