Start and Finish dates not changing

[David Schwartz]

I'm using MS Project 2007. Is there an obvious reason why the Start
and Finish dates of a task might not change when I specify a
predecessor? Why wouldn't the Start date of Task 2 below be Wed
6/24/09?

TASK START FINISH PRED
Task 1 Thu 6/25/09 Fri 6/26/09
Task 2 Mon 7/6/09 Fri 7/10/09 1FS-2 days

TIA,
David

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi David,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

1. Have you got Automatic Calculation turned on?
Tools/Options.../Calculation tab.

2. Have you set any constraints? View/Table ()/Constraints.

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Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

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[David Schwartz]

1.  Have you got Automatic Calculation turned on?
Tools/Options.../Calculation tab.
Yes


2.  Have you set any constraints?  View/Table ()/Constraints.

Yes, it seems I've a lot of constraint dates but don't know how they
got set.

Thanks for your help!

David

 

[Mike Glen]

I guess you have been entering dates in the Start or Finish fields. Select
all the tasks by clicking the button above the ID column so that all tasks
are highlighted. Then Project/Task Information/Advanced tab and set the
constraint to As Soon As Possible, which is, in effect, no constraint, and
OK. Does that help?


Mike Glen
Project MVP
See http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials

1. Have you got Automatic Calculation turned on?
Tools/Options.../Calculation tab.
Yes


2. Have you set any constraints? View/Table ()/Constraints.

Yes, it seems I've a lot of constraint dates but don't know how they
got set.

Thanks for your help!

David

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Just a detail, it's Tools, Task Information, Advanced.

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[Jan De Messemaeker]

OOPS! my wrong, it IS project, task information - Sorry!!

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[Steve House]

If you manually enter something in the Start column, you set a Start No
Earlier Then constraint. If enter something in the Finish column you set a
Finish No Earlier Than constraint. Except the rare cases where you need a
constraint (parts on backorder, for example) you should never manually enter
start or finish dates. You don't tell Project the dates you thinks tasks
ought to start or finish, it tells you.
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Steve House
MS Project Trainer & Consultant

1. Have you got Automatic Calculation turned on?
Tools/Options.../Calculation tab.
Yes


2. Have you set any constraints? View/Table ()/Constraints.

Yes, it seems I've a lot of constraint dates but don't know how they
got set.

Thanks for your help!

David

 

[alex]

Hi,

Just to add one thing,
If you have already actual on these tasks, the start and finish dates of a
tasks might not change. And If you don't have actual but you record actual
start, the start and finish dates of tasks might not change.

Best regards,
Alexandre BARAULT

 

[mbrown1]

I'm having the same problem. I have no constraint on my task, however it is
80% complete. Does having some percentage complete affect whether or not
your task dates will move when you change a predecessor?

 

[Steve House]

Absolutely. Entering progress sets the task's start date and says that the
scheduled date is "true fact", says that work actually took place on that
exact date and makes it engraved in granite unless you manually edit the
Actual Start field. Links flowing into it will not change it. So did it
start the day you said it did or was it some other date?