How do I get successor tasks to start on next day rather than sam.

[David@Emerson]

I want tasks to start on seperate days (where FS relationship) rather than
same day

Can't find it in Help and I'm sure it's something to do with Options and/or
Calendar

Anybody any ideas

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

There's no standard or built-in way to do it. If the successor task must
begin at the start of the day regardless of what time the predecessor ends,
one work-around is to create a work calendar that has 1 minute working time.
Assuming your real workday starts at 8am, this calendar might show working
time of 07:59-08:00. When you link the tasks, create a fictitious task in
between the two real ones and designate its Task Calendar as the one minute
one. Since the only time it can happen is during the one minute its
calendar allows, it will always be scheduled the morning after the first
task and your next real task will take place immediate after it, at 8am.
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[John]

David,
Let me offer an alternate approach to Steve's suggestion. A simple VBA
macro can be developed that automatically shifts the start time for all
tasks to the next working day. The macro can be designed so that it does
not apply a constraint but uses a variable lag time. It is a little more
tricky but very doable.

John

 

[Gordon Blair]

umm, a very quick way would be to introduce a lag.

So, instead of having a predeccessor of task 26fs, you'd have task 26fs+1.

This will work if your tasks are milestones, and you don't want to get too
deep into the weeds.

Cheers,

G

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

The problem with a lag time is that if the predecessor finish changes, the
lag pushes or pulls the successor start by the same amount. Example: I
have Task 1 ending at 12 noon and I want the successor to start at the start
of the next day, 8am. A lag of 1 day will start it at 12 noon the next day,
not 8 am. A lag of FS+4h will start the successor at 8am but now, if Task 1
runs a little late and its finish changes to 2pm, Task 2's start will change
to 10am. What I actually want is for it to start at 8am on the workday
following the day Task 1 ends without regard to what TIME on that day Task 1
wraps up and ignoring any change of less than a full day in the completion
of Task 1. That's why to workaround I suggested