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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
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
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