See original critical path

[KW]

Hi all

As a project is updated, I've realised and I accept that the critical path
will change. However, given that any construction claims will have to be
based on the original critical path, short of saving a copy of the original
file before updating, is it possible to see what the original critial path
for the project was?


thanks in advance

Kevin

 

[JackD]

Hi all

As a project is updated, I've realised and I accept that the critical path
will change. However, given that any construction claims will have to be
based on the original critical path, short of saving a copy of the
original file before updating, is it possible to see what the original
critial path for the project was?


thanks in advance

Kevin

The baseline will show the original state of the project, but won't cover
critical path. However, it is simple to write a small macro to flag all the
tasks that were on the original critical path. Something like this:

sub foo()
for each task in activeproject.tasks
if not task is nothing then
if task.critical then
task.flag1 = True
end if
end if
next task
end sub

Now you can just look at the tasks and filter for all that have flag1 set.
You can also create a special barstyle for the baseline and flag1 so the
original critical path can display in red. Search my blog for conditional
formatting for more info.
http://zo-d.com/blog

 

[Catfish Hunter]

You can create a view that only has baseline start and finish bars. Format
the bars in this view as if they were regular task and critical task are red.
Hope this helps.