task predecessor setting dates

[Mark Etheridge]

Hello,

Each of my tasks have predessors (or all the tasks are linked) so that if I
change a task, the remaining tasks will automatically update.

The problem I have is that if one task gets moved out, the following task
start date will be the same as it's predecessor end date. I usually have to
manually go through each task to ensure the correct start dates. How can I
set it so that microsoft project will automatically push out the dependency
tasks to start the following day???

I hope this description makes sense?

Mark

 

[John Beamish]

It sounds to me as if you have some contraints (probably "Must Start On")
and contraint dates on your tasks.

Insert the columns "Constraint Type" and "Constraint Date". Generally
(though not always) you want to see the Constraint Type as "As Soon As
Possible" and the Constraint Date" as "NA". Where you have other entries,
you should investigate to see if they are realistic or spurious.

Incidentally, constraint dates most often appear in tasks when users
erroneously key in a start date instead of letting Project calculate it
when Predecessor/Successor dependencies are being entered.

Hello,

Each of my tasks have predessors (or all the tasks are linked) so that
if I
change a task, the remaining tasks will automatically update.

The problem I have is that if one task gets moved out, the following task
start date will be the same as it's predecessor end date. I usually
have to
manually go through each task to ensure the correct start dates. How can
I
set it so that microsoft project will automatically push out the
dependency
tasks to start the following day???

I hope this description makes sense?

Mark

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[Mark Etheridge]

John,

Thank you very much! That was helpful.

The problem I am still faced with is that I have 'client' tasks that need to
be scheduled to start the day after a deliverable is completed. Is there
anyway to automatically set a task to be pushed out the next day?? I guess
I should not have task that have less than 1 day duration??

Thanks again!

Mark

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Mark,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

What you can do is to create a milestone FS between the two tasks. Now
create a special calendar for working hours from, say, 0800 to 0801 only
every work day. Now assign that as a task calendar to the milestone which
can only be scheduled for that one minute per day, thus ensuring that the 8
hr task starts the next full day. If you're unsure of how to do any of
this, please repost.

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this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Guest]

If all your task times are in even day increments, then
if you start the first at the beginning of a day so
should the successors. That would seem an unlikely
scenario, though, due to varying number of resources,
resource commitments, and probably estimates of other
than an exact day. Chances are the predecessor task is
ending before end of day, so the successor starts
immediately after, on the same day. Try changing your
time view to hourly , or change the time display option
to show date and time just to confirm this.

 

[Mark Etheridge]

thank you very much!

I solved the problem.

I my options, under Calendar tab, I had set a day starts at 8am and ends
5pm. But then I put a regular work day is 7hrs. I fixed the problem by
setting a regular work day to 8hrs.