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End dates of Subtask are appearing wrong
Hello again Saleem
If you want the summary task to be independent of the subtasks it groups, you must include the following instructions in the corresponding summary task of the xml schema you want to import:
<ManualStart>2024-12-26T00:00:00</ManualStart>
<ManualFinish>2024-12-29T23:59:00</ManualFinish>
<Manual>1</Manual>The order and place in which they are within the task does not matter, even if there are <Start>... and <Finish>... instructions, because when defining the task as Manual, only manual dates will be considered.
You must write the instructions exactly as shown above, respecting upper and lower case.
You must also write the end date as: 2024-12-29T23:59:00 and not as: 2024-12-29T23:59:59, in which case it will skip to the next day and count one more day when importing the schema file.
Going back to your initial request, it would look like this:
<Name>Testing</Name>
<Type>0</Type>
<IsNull>0</IsNull>
<WBS>3</WBS>
<OutlineNumber>3</OutlineNumber>
<OutlineLevel>1</OutlineLevel>
<Priority>500</Priority>
<ManualStart>2024-12-26T00:00:00</ManualStart>
<ManualFinish>2024-12-29T23:59:00</ManualFinish>
<Manual>1</Manual>If you consider that it has been useful and sufficient, you can close the query by clicking Solved.
Ignacio
Hi there again !
This didn't work either, I set the summary task "Testing" property to manual as you guided and now this has scheduled the task to 1 day only
saleemullah054,
Why would you want a summary line to be manually scheduled when all subtasks are auto-scheduled? That makes no sense. A summary line is NOT a task, it is simply a summary of subtasks under it. The start date of a summary line will be the start date of the earliest subtask and the finish date of a summary line will be the finish date of the latest subtask under it. According to the resulting Project file shown in the screen shot of your original post (see below), that's exactly what you get and should get. What am I missing?
John
Hi there !
Thanks for your input, why would i only want my summary task to be manually scheduled ? Well, I dont. All I really want is my summary task dates to be independent of its child tasks dates. Ignacio suggested me to set my summary task as manual for that, which i simply followed. Please go through the thread to have even more clear idea
How about explaining what you want to achieve. It feels like you might be better off with Excel if you do not want to either use manually scheduled tasks and set the dates yourself, nor use automatic which will make the summary task follow the dates of the child tasks (the definition of a summary task). I've read the thread, so don't just ask me to read again. What is your end goal? Where did the XML come from and what are you trying to do? I still think you need to understand calendars, scheduling and Microsoft Project better if it isn't doing what you need it to.
Once you set something to Manual saleemullah054 , then it doesn't calculate - so you can specify whichever Finish date and time you want. You will need to change the other fields in the XML to whatever you want.
Hi there,
Can you please go through the previous conversation and have a look at my attached XML file to check what needs to be change
You will need to try this yourself and see what gives you the results you need. Manual means you set the Finish Date you want and don't have the scheduling engine calculate for you. I don't have a copy of Project to hand to try out. Sorry.
