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Close task at 100%
HELLO,
I have been working in MS Project for a short time. I would like to know how to automate the advancement of tasks that follow another task that ended earlier than planned. I put 100% on a task, but project consider it as a normal task for the rest of the time and plan with the extra hours instead of close it and put the ressources on the next task. Do I just have to change the end date manually or is there a way to make it complete by clicking the 100% button?
Thank you for your help !
- AlexTramac,
Simply setting a task at 100% via the Percent Complete field will not change the schedule dates. Project will assume the task started and finished on the schedule dates. As Dale noted, if a task finishes early, you need to enter the actual finish date into the Actual Finish field. Project will then set the task at 100% AND will automatically update the task scheduled finish date to agree with the actual finish date. If the task has successors that are not constrained (e.g. start-no-earlier-than), the start date for those successor tasks will move up.
John
It would help to know what version of Project you are using. From the description of your question it sounds like you may be using Project for the Web which has limited capability.
However, when you create your plan, tasks should be arranged in a logical sequence of activity. Tasks are linked together in this sequence using dependencies such as, task 2 doesn't start until task 1 is completed (finish-to-start or "FS"). Resource should also be assigned to all tasks in the plan, Project does not have any feature to shift or move resources around, that's something you will need to do.
But again, without knowing what version of Project you are using, our ability to help is limited.
John
Hi John and Dale,
I'm using Project professionnal 2021.
I've plan everything with time and dependency for each task and it calculate the best plan. Some task was already done, so I put them at 100% to let the program recalculate everything, but it keep it as what he have plan oraginally whit the dates even if I put the task at 100%.
My expectation was that he take it out from the plan at the moment that I put it at 100%, but the program don't do it.
Does I miss something?
Thanks,- AlexTramac,
Simply setting a task at 100% via the Percent Complete field will not change the schedule dates. Project will assume the task started and finished on the schedule dates. As Dale noted, if a task finishes early, you need to enter the actual finish date into the Actual Finish field. Project will then set the task at 100% AND will automatically update the task scheduled finish date to agree with the actual finish date. If the task has successors that are not constrained (e.g. start-no-earlier-than), the start date for those successor tasks will move up.
John
- AlexTramac --
If you are using the Microsoft Project desktop application (which requires a Project Plan 3 license), you can enter dates in the Actual Start and Actual Finish columns, which will then trigger Microsoft Project to mark the task as 100% complete. If you are using the relatively new Project for the Web application (which requires a Project Plan 1 license), you should change the Start date to the actual start of the task and change the Finish date to the actual finish date of the task, and then manually mark the task as 100% complete. Hope this helps.
