Tracking

[Robin Roe]

Hi

We are hoping to track projects by using the "Reschedule uncompleted work to
start after" the current status date. But I am a little confused by its logic.

E.g.

A task of 10 days fixed duration scheduled to start on Monday 10th July. It
is now the following Monday and I want to update the schedule. I change the
status date to Monday 17th and use the "Update Tasks" dialog box to give a
start date (will keep 10th in this case) and put in a remaining duration of 4
days (which is following the schedule)

I "Reschedule uncompleted work to start after" for the entire project and
the remaining work (4 days) goes to the right hand side (Future) of the
status line which is what I would expect.

I would expect the task to now show an actual duration of 6 days but instead
it shows "0". How can a task that has an actual start date of 6 days ago have
no duration? I know you can specify a duration in the "Update Tasks" dialog
box but this doesn't really make sense especially as I could enter 7 days and
this would mean I have done work in the future which is impossible.

Am I missing a step or just misunderstanding what I'm seeing?

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Actual Duration does not mean actual duration as you would read it in plain
English
In Project it means "the time during which any actual work has been
performed on the task".
In update tasks, in your case, you should have entered 6 days af actual
duration and 4 days of remaining duration.

HTH