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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 ta...
- 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.
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.