Forum Discussion
Project Changing % Complete when entered
Brett_Phifer_SCI,
Somethings not quite jelling with the scenario you provide. When I set up a task with the parameters stated, the finish date is 12/8/26, not 1/20/27. Are there some non-working days thrown in (e.g. holidays)?
You mention the status date is 1/5/26 but that is irrelevant when entering percent complete directly into the % Complete field.
A few questions:
- What is the task type?
- Is the task auto-scheduled?
- Are any resources assigned and if so, what is the resource's Base Calendar?
- Are you by chance entering a value into the Actual Duration field, Remaining Duration or Actual Work fields in addition to entering a value in the % Complete field?
John
Thank you for responding. To address your questions, we do have nonworking days. We have about 6 non-working days throughout the year plus the week between Christmas and New Year's is scheduled as non-working. I'm fairly new to this schedule, but I can see the task shows a Baseline Duration of 200 working days from 9/30/25 to 10/1/26. The Actual Start is 11/12/25 although there is 0% progress.
The task type is fixed duration, auto-scheduled, it is only loaded with a Materials resource, and I'm pretty confident no one has updated the Remaining Duration or Actual Work, as the typical practice here is to update the % complete then "Update Project - Reschedule incomplete work to start on the status date."
I believe the best practice is to update Remaining Duration and let Project calculate the % complete, but for this task, even when I enter a value in Remaining Duration, the % Complete value stays at 0. I want to advise the team on the correct way to update progress to reflect their estimated FInish Date (based on Remaining Duration) and % Complete, but updating one of these fields isn't producing the expected result in the other field.