Help: Moving dates for an items doen'st move dependant items

[Dab]

Hi:

I'm new at this so I hope you'll forgive me if I ask a really dumb question:

I have a schedule laid out in project. If I move one of the scheduled
items, shouldn't any 'finish to start' dependant items move as well? If
not, what's the point of the dependencies? I must be missing something
fundamental here. Thanks for any advice.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

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[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi Dab,

I'm afraid you're not missing something, you must have overdone it.
Because Project is supposed to do exactly what you want.
There are ways to block it though, and you must have gone one of the
following paths:

- Verify whether in Project, Project Information, the option is calculate
from start date
- Verify whether in Tools, Options, Calculation, Calculation is set to
Automatic (as opposed to Manual)
- Tasks with a strong constraint like MUST start or finish do not move even
if there are 33333 predecessors; Finish no later than constraints block the
task once the constraint comes into play.
- Once a task has an Actual Start set it won't mobve any longer. Project
will change your pla, not your history (that is what actual data are about)

Make your choice... it's definitely one of those.

HTH