Subtask days not adding to total days to their task

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Ashley Matteson

I am having a problem getting the task days to add up to the total of the
subtask days under it.

EXAMPLE: TASK A = 25 DAYS
SUBTASK A1 = 20 DAYS
SUBTASK A2 = 15 DAYS
SUBTASK A3 = 25 DAYS

TOTAL FOR TASK A SHOULD BE 60 DAYS NOT 25.

Any ideas on how to get it to add properly?

Post here and if possible, email me at [email protected]
 
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Dale Howard [MVP]

Ashley --

You are totally misunderstanding how Microsoft Project calculates the
Duration of a summary task. The Duration is calculated from the Start date
of the earliest starting subtask to the Finish date of the latest finishing
subtask, minus any nonworking days such as weekends. Based on the
information you supplied, it sounds like subtasks A1, A2, and A3 are
parallel tasks with no dependencies between them, therefore the Duration of
the summary task is the same as the Duration of the longest task, which in
this case is 25 days. Hope this helps.
 
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