Lock down Dates

[Reider]

I need to 'scrub' my project schedule for a customer submission, so that it
no longer shows any resources or Work hours for the project. I do still need
to show the Start / Finish Dates, % complete, and duration columns. I have
tried to set all tasks to Fixed Duration and remove the Effort Driven flag,
but still get date shifts on my Finish Date caused by the duration changing
when the resources are removed. Is there a way to lock down the duration and
dates, so I don't have to review each task one by one after I scrub the
schedule?

 

[Jim Aksel]

Are you sure all the tasks are fixed duration?
If you have a task that is fixed duration, the duration will remain constant
regardless of resource assignments.

Show all tasks, CTL+A, click the task information icon and change the task
type to fixed duration.

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[Blueglass]

Hello Jim,
Well, I tried your recommendation, set Type = Fixed Duration, stripped
out the resources and found that multiple Start and Finish dates had moved.
Do you know what went wrong?
Thank you.

Blueglass

 

[Jennifer Knaus]

I have the same issue. I've been working with project for a long time and I
am positive that I change all the tasks to fixed duration non-effort driven
and my dates still change....

HELP!

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Jennifer,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

Have you Resource Levelled your project? Where there any actual data
entered? Have you got a baseline to compare it with? Can you give an
example of this happening? Does it happen with a new trial project? Does
it happen on other projects?

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[Steve House]

Blueglass - that's totally to be expected. Problem stems from the various
factors that influence start and finish dates - effort driven and task type
settings being only part of the picture. For example, resource Joe is
assigned to a 1 day task that would normally start Monday the 12th but for
the fact that Joe is on vacation that entire week. Project places the task,
still with one day duration, on Mon the 19th, the first day it can possibly
happen because that's the first day the only guy that presumably knows how
to do the work is going to be back at work and of course that drives any
dependent tasks out as well. Remove Joe and there's nothing holding the
task out there on that date and it falls back to the 12th once again,
dragging all its successors along with it. Throughout the entire process
the task's duration will not change and so any setting for effort driven or
not, fixed duration or not, will have no affect.

"Fixed duration" does not mean the duration can't change, it only means that
in calculations involving editing the values in the identity Work = Duration
* Units, duration is expected to be the constant term and a change to units
will cause work to be recalculated while a change to work will cause means
units to be recalculated...and that's really ALL it means.