Duration inaccurate

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RVW

when putting in duration times for a task w/ sub tasks....the durations will not add correctly unless the task is marked as complete. Has anyone had this problem or know how to fix it?
 
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Mike Glen

Hi RVW,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

The Duration of a Summary task is a measure of the working time between the
beginning of the first task to the end of the last tasks and is not a
summation of the Durations of the individual tasks (unless, coincidentally,
they are all in a simple chain). See Summary tasks in Help.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

RVW said:
when putting in duration times for a task w/ sub tasks....the durations
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will not add correctly unless the task is marked as complete. Has anyone
had this problem or know how to fix it?
 
R

RVW

I det the tasks up in a chain in order to achieve a desired duration for my task (I.E. a task of 4 2 hour sub tasks in a chain should total 1 full day) but this was not the case unless the tasks were marked as complete
 
M

Mike Glen

OK - what did it add up to? I suggest you might have a mismatch in
calendars. Please see FAQ Item: 5. Default Working Hours

Please note the new Project newsgroup arrangements repeated in FAQ 24 -
Project Newsgroups, as this one is closing down.
FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

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

Mike Glen
Project MVP

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

RVW said:
I det the tasks up in a chain in order to achieve a desired duration for
Click to expand...
my task (I.E. a task of 4 2 hour sub tasks in a chain should total 1 full
day) but this was not the case unless the tasks were marked as complete
 
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