how do I enter LS ES LF EF and have them show up?

[JC2]

see subject

 

[Trevor Rabey]

Early and Late Starts and Finishes are properties of each Task.
As such they are available as fields like all of the other properties, as
columns that can be inserted into any Table.

It is best not to mess up your existing built in Tables by, for example,
just inserting half a dozen columns into the Entry Table.
Better to make a new one. I often find that I have a need for a Table that I
call Critical Path Numbers Table or some such, and this Table has these
properties/fields/columns:

Indicators
Task Name
ES
EF
LS
LF
Free Float ("Slack" in MSP)
Total Float

If you also want these to show up in the Gantt Chart you can format the bars
to go from/to any of the available dates and you can stack bars in rows.
This is all in Format, Bar Styles. All of the formatting is stored in the
View. It is best not to mess up an existing View, so best to make a new one
called, say, Critical Path Numbers View or some such. Then make the Critical
Path Numbers Table the default Table in the Critical Path Numbers View and
you are done.

There is a View called Detail Gantt, as well as others, which is quite
useful for seeing how to format the bar styles.

TRevor

 

[Steve House]

You don't/can't manually enter them. They are read-only fields that Project
calculates for you. Since Project is basically a critical path scheduling
tool, one could even say that to calculate those 4 fields is why Project
exists in the first place. You can make them visible by adding the Early
Start, Late Start, Early Finish, and Late Finish columns to any task table
view you like, either a new one you create or adding the columns to a
convenient existing table. For instance, the "Schedule" table of the Gantt
Chart view already has the Late Start and Late Finish columns - only a
handfull of mouse clicks would be needed to add the other two.

HTH

 

[Steve House]

Dean - those terms don't have anything to do with PERT or expected.
optimistic etc. Rather these are the values calculated for a task during
the forward and backward passes for slack time calculations. ES=Early
Start, the earliest the tasks links will allow it to start; EF=Early Finish,
ES+Duration; LF=Late Finish, the latest it can finish without delaying the
project finish; LS=Late Start, LF-Duration.