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Merlin2000
May 27, 2025Copper Contributor
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...
- 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
John-project
May 28, 2025Silver Contributor
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
Ignacio_Martin
May 28, 2025Iron Contributor
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