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Project summary actual duration or % complete lower than those of the sub tasks
I have been tracking this schedule for a while. Just noticed that the % complete or the actual duration of the Project summary task is lower than those of the sub tasks. Why is this weird behavior ? ...
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Let's say that we have a project of one month duration (31 days).
Now we are at day 15, the project should show the actual duration as 15.
The other activities can show duration 15 or less, as they all are within this project. But it cannot be more than 15. Am I right?
It seems you have different calendar for Project Summary to the Tasks & Sub-tasks calendar. Assign same calendar and see what happens.
Day 15 does not mean Actual Duration should be 15 days as one of the peeves with MS Project is that it allows tasks to be completed in the future. E.g. if a Task with 31 days is assigned 100% on day 15, MS Project will show actual duration of 31 days and actual finish date in future (day 31).