How to mark a task as Milestone by default?

  • Thread starter Porfirio Fuentes Martínez
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Porfirio Fuentes Martínez

Hi, I need to find a way to create new tasks in project professional that
are marked as milestones by default , any ideas?

I also would like to do the same in Project Server...

Thanks

Porfirio
 
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Jonathan Yong

As far as i know Project doesn't have that neither other Project
Management system.

Come to think of it, if most of your task is a milestone, why you want
to use MS Project. You mights well just use Excel. Milestone is zero
duration, and it does not help you to track anything in term of planning
and scheduling. And usually in any project, there is only very few
milestone as compared to actual tasks.
 
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Porfirio Fuentes Martínez

Actually, my tasks are not milestones but tasks where duration is
irrelevant. What I need is to use tasks but for the project management
methodology I'm using, the duration is not relevant, but the work and costs
are. So, I want to use milestones to represent the moment the task is
finished, and I want to use the work and cost fields for that task.

And project has a option in the advanced tab of task information for marking
a task as a milestone, that's what I want, but I want that option selected
by default when I enter a new task.

Greetings

Porfirio
 
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Sarah

Porfirio,

You can enter all of your tasks, then click the Task heading to select
them all, right click, select Task Information, and change them all
there. Other than that, I don't think there's any way to set that as
the default. That is not what Project was designed for.

Sarah
 
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Mike Glen

Hi Porfirio ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

It can't be set as default. But why not just enter a zero in the Duration
column?

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
 
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Porfirio Fuentes Martínez

The use of a task marked as milestone is a requirement of the Project
management methodology we are using (or at least the way to best resemble
the behavior that the methodology imposes), and the idea is to make it as
easy as possible for the users, so having to enter the tasks an then setting
them as milestones should be an unnecesary additional step.
 
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Porfirio Fuentes Martínez

The situation here is that my client uses a methodology based in
Deliverables, not tasks, therefore the dont need to report intermediate
progress because while you can have a task partially completed, a
deliverable have only two states: it is completed or not. So my client needs
to reflect those deliverables as milestones, but for certain analysis there
is the need of using durations. And all the entries in the project have to
show the same behavior. That's why I need to set the tasks marked as
milestone by default.

By the way, I solved it with a macro that catch the event of creating a new
task, and sets the milestone field to true. If someone is interested I can
share the code. I know that maybe no one besides me has ever needed to set
a task as milestone by default, but the macro works for any other property
of tasks.

Greetings

Porfirio
 
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