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Merlin2000
Copper Contributor
May 27, 2025
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automatic determination of the duration of a task

Dear Community, I can't find a solution for these two challenges in MS Project, even if I know to had already solved it once... I'd like to link tasks with each other multiple times, so that the du...
  • John-project's avatar
    John-project
    May 28, 2025

    Merlin2000,

    On a quick read it sounds like you are trying to do a hammock task, particularly since you said you "solved it once". See this link for a detailed explanation on how to set it up.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20200723171939/https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/32040.ms-project-hammock-tasks.aspx

    John

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Ignacio_Martin
Iron Contributor
May 28, 2025

Hi Dirk

You can try the following:

Break Task C into two milestones, Start and Finish, and link them as shown in the image.
If you want to display Summary Task C as a normal task: hide the subtasks, remove the bold from its text row, and change the Gantt bar style by double-clicking on it and applying the formatting in the attached image.
I hope this helps.
Ignacio

 

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    John-project
    Silver Contributor
    May 28, 2025

    Ignacio,

    That's an interesting approach to emulating a hammock task. A little "back door" but it has the advantage of avoiding paste links.

    John

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      Ignacio_Martin
      Iron Contributor
      May 28, 2025

      Hi John

      For some time now, special pastes with links (dynamic links) have been taking a long time to update (several seconds), so I try to avoid it.

      Regards

      Ignacio

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