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hi i am having some issue in MS project progress update of fixed duration task
in the above schedule task-6 slab formwork is started before the predecessor task has finished. say it started on 05-06-2024 and i am updating the progress on end of 12th day i.e 16-06-2024. so...
Hi chinthala91
You can try these two options in this scenario you describe to obtain a result like the one you are looking for:
Option A: If the task is of type Fixed Duration, and the Actual Duration exceeds the Duration of the task before its update Project will set the % Complete to 100%.
In the event that the actual Duration is less than the previous one of its update, it takes as the final Duration of the task the working days between the Start and Finish dates, regardless of the interruption time that exists between them. Thus, and applying the formula, the % completed would be equal to 100 x Actual Duration / (Actual Duration + Remaining Duration), a value that may not be significant for the progress of the task, especially if the task is not continuous and has predecessors that interrupts the task and postpones the remaining Duration.
In this case the solution would be to change the Type of task before updating, to Fixed Units or Fixed Work, instead of Fixed Duration.
Option B: The other workaround is to delete, before updating, the predecessors that interrupt the task and postpone the Remaining Duration, in this case Id=5.
I hope I've helped.
Ignacio
