Level by priority

[junk]

Is there any way to make project level by priority first, then by task
duration? "Priority, Standard" does not seem to do it- my short, high
priority tasks are still being delayed by lengthy low-priority ones. I
don't want to use the do not level setting because not all of these
high-priority tasks are of the same importance. Thanks for any help.

Peter

 

[JackD]

This should not happen. Maybe you are mistaken about how priorities work.
In Project the priority number is backwards (sort of). Priority 1000 means
"do not level".
The higher the priority number the higher the priority.
This can be confusing to people who usually think of priority as being
ordinal - that is most people expect a task with a priority of 1 to be
"first priority".
In project priority of 1 is lowest priority and will be moved the most.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

In my experience when the difference in Prioriyty is large enough the high
proirity ones come first.
From my observation Project does not sort first by priority, then by...
etcetera but it makes a weighted sum of the different parameters.

This being said, your long tasks don't have an actual starting date have
they?
And is "Leveling can split" ON? If not, a low priority tasks that starts
because it is the only possible job for a resource some day will go to the
end even when hi priority tasks come up.

Hope this helps,