Levelling question

[David M C]

How can I make Project level a whole summary task rather than its component
parts? At the moment, the individual tasks inside the summary task are
levelled separately and cause what would usually be an 8d summary task to be
spread out over 70 days.

Here's an example of what I have.

70 The Lane
Bathroom Installation
Task1
Task2
Task3

80 The Lane
Bathroom Installation
Task1
Task2
Task3

etc...

Within the Bathroom Installation summary task the resource Bathroom Fitter
is applied to every subtask. When levelling, all the Task1's follow
sequentially, followed by all the Task2's etc. I'd like the whole of the
first Bathroom Installation to be completed before the next begins, without
having the dependencies between tasks. I can get it to work by levelling by
ID only, but stops other tasks in the project from being levelled correctly.

I hope you understand what the problem is, if not I'll try to explain again.

Dave

 

[JulieS]

Hi David,

Try adding the [Priority] field to the task view. Then when leveling, choose
Priority, Standard. This will allow you to more closely refine which tasks
you wish to delay.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi David,

Just like I suggested 15 mins. ago to another poster, I only see the
possibility to run before lebveling a VBA procedure that lifts the priority
of tasks belonging to a started subtak and/or decreases priority for tasks
belonging to unstarted summary tasks.

Example:

Sub ResetPriorities()
dim Job as task
for each job in activeproject.tasks
if not job is nothing then
if not job.summary then
job.priority= 1+9,98*job.outlineparent.percentcomplete
end if
end if
next job
end sub

HTH