linked tasks to be finished before another task

[Colin-online]

Hi, I have a series of linked tasks, say 101 to 105 with 1 day durations, and
I want to set the dependancies such that the last one finishes 2 days before
a separate milestone task, task 106. How do I do it so that task 1
automatically starts on the correct day, i.e. 7 days before 106. I don't
want to set 101 to start specifically 7 days before 106 as I want to be able
to change the durations for 101 to 105 and have the dates corrected
automatically.

Many thanks, Colin

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

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[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

If you can fix the date of task 106, link everything FS and set the
constraint for 101-105 to As Late As Possible.
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[Trivikram]

Hi Jan,

How good is to have the inflexible constraint of "Must Finish on" on some
task.

Thanks,
3vikram...

 

[Colin-online]

Many thanks Jan, however, that only get's me part way there. It does give me
the following:

1 Tasks 1-50 50 days Thu 20 Mar '08 Mon 12 May '08 As Soon As Possible
2
3 Task 101 1 day Wed 07 May '08 Wed 07 May '08 As Late As Possible
4 Task 102 1 day Wed 07 May '08 Thu 08 May '08 As Late As
Possible 3
5 Task 103 1 day Thu 08 May '08 Fri 09 May '08 As Late As
Possible 4
6 Task 104 1 day Fri 09 May '08 Mon 12 May '08 As Late As
Possible 5
7 Task 105 1 day Mon 12 May '08 Mon 12 May '08 As Late As
Possible 6
8
9 Task 106 0 days Mon 12 May '08 Mon 12 May '08 As Late As
Possible 1,7

However, what I'd like is for Task 105 to finish 2 days before 106, i.e. Thu
08 May '08. Please bear in mind that Tasks 1-50 control task 106 and their
durations can change.

Thanks, Colin

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

The linl 105-106 then should have a lag of 2 days.
Go to 106' s task information, Predecessors, to set the lag.
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