Need a way to have a Variable Duration for Multiple Tasks

[Brian Spisak]

A practical example would be shipping time from a particular vendor - no
matter when or what is ordered, shipping time will be the same each time. I
need to place multiple orders at different points in time during a project
where these points have no relationship to each other, such that a recurring
task does not help.

If my shipping time changes (say from 5 days to 9) I don't want to search
for all shipments in the project and change each individually. I want to
update it once in a single place and have it reflected in each instance a
shipment is made.

How do I do this??

 

[Rod Gill]

Can't be done unless you use VBA programming. You could set Flag1 to Yes for
all receive goods tasks. Have a filter that displays all tasks with Flag1
set only, then do a search and replace on the Predecessors column to replace
the lag time. Be sure to save before doing the search and replace so you can
easily undo if it goes horribly wrong!

 

[davegb]

A practical example would be shipping time from a particular vendor - no
matter when or what is ordered, shipping time will be the same each time. I
need to place multiple orders at different points in time during a project
where these points have no relationship to each other, such that a recurring
task does not help.

If my shipping time changes (say from 5 days to 9) I don't want to search
for all shipments in the project and change each individually. I want to
update it once in a single place and have it reflected in each instance a
shipment is made.

How do I do this??

Depends on whether your shipping is represented by a lag time, as is
often the case, or by separate tasks. If you do them as tasks, then
flag all those tasks, you can filter for them, then click in the "Task
Information Box" icon, and edit all their durations at once.
You don't even have to flag them if they all contain something like
"ship" or "shipping" in the name field. You can just filter for that.
(I DON'T reccommend they all have the exact same name, like "Ship".
That will get you into other problems down the line.)

Hope this helps in your world.