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Don't overrun Due Date
Hi there, I have a project and of course also a due date. How can I make sure that due date will not be overrun? If I increase the duration in row 3 ("bbb") to e.g. 9 days then the Due Date...
Hans1958,
You have set up both a deadline date and a hard constraint (i.e. must-finish-on). I suggest you add the Total Slack field as a column in the view. For a deadline only date (i.e. normal constraint of "as-soon-as-possible"), if the schedule finish goes beyond the deadline, the total slack will show by how much.
However, if you leave the hard constraint and eliminate the deadline, the total slack will show how much slack is "available"
Or, if the schedule shows the finish going beyond the constraint date, the total slack will again show by how much.
Generally hard constraints are not desirable as they constrain the normal schedule dynamics.
John