Preventing spread allocations

[johnvmc]

When I have multiple tasks occurring on the same day I've noticed that
project tends to stretch both of them out over the entire length of the
day rather than filling out the first contiguous time slots.

This can make it very hard when trying to manually adjust daily
assignments without leveling since each time slot that has a value
allocated to it needs to be edited. Is there a way to change this
behavior so that assignments will preferentially fill up the first
available time slots?

e.g. - If I had two tasks for 4 hours each on the same day I'd like
Project to schedule one for 8-12 and once for 1-5 rather than have both
scheduled at .25hrs per 15 minutes throughout the whole day.

Thanks,
John

p.s. - I realize I could likely use predecessors to force this behavior
but in this case the tasks aren't truly linked they just happen to
overlap.

 

[Gérard Ducouret]

Hi John,
If you enter Duration = 4h for each task, Project will work as you expect.

Gérard Ducouret

 

[johnvmc]

Excellent! Thanks.

-john

Hi John,
If you enter Duration = 4h for each task, Project will work as you expect.

Gérard Ducouret