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Team Planner in MS Project Professional
Hi
I have a situation where I had a resource being overallocated on a particular day just by 0.13hr. Then I did a resource leveling and nothing happened still shows red man icon. (Resource leveling is set with Level only within available slack not checked).
Then I looked at task via the Team Planner and managed to move the conflict task slightly to the right and resolved the issue with small increase in cost.
However when I returned to my Gantt Chart view all my critical tasks that were highlighted in red in my Gantt chart view no longer is shown in red. I tried to display the critical tasks from the report ribbon shows nothing.
Question:- Why is this happening? How do I get my critical task highlighted in red again AFTER the adjustment made via Team Planner.
Appreciate for any help from the community.
Best Rgds
kish
- kish27,
Taking a quick look at your screen shot it looks like task 44 has no successor and that's probably why it is not on the critical path. In a good plan every task should have a predecessor, with a few exceptions, but every task MUST have a successor, even if it's the final milestone.
John
- Hi Guys
My apologies with regard to above discussion topic after investigating in detail I found that it was not the issue with the Team Planner. What happen was I lost the critical path after I did resource leveling.
My question now is why the whole critical path is loss? I can understand during leveling some tasks will get shifted and a new critical path will be there....but totally disappear surely this is not correct. Then how does MS Project calculate the project end date without a critical path.
How do I get my critical path display again as red AFTER resource scheduling?
Best Rgds
Kish- kish27,
First of all check that the option to show a critical path is still checked (Format > Bar Styles < Critical Tasks). If that's checked, then I'd look at the Total Slack field or the Critical field. In the default mode any task with total slack greater than zero will NOT be critical.
John- Hi John
Option for Critical Path is still checked. I added to the Total Slack Field and Critical Filed and did the leveling again. This is what I see:
All those critical task I had before leveling the Critical Field changed from Yes to No. The critical task before leveling the Total Slack field showed 0 and after the leveling all had 1 day in the field.
After leveling I had only one small task shown as critical which has a duration of 2 days, The project plan at the project summary line shows the project has a duration of 107 days and finishes about 5months from the start.
If the leveling had level most of the task and there is only one critical path as I mentioned what I am confused is how MS Project calculates the project end date? From my understanding is the longest path in the project is the Critical path and it is also determines the earliest date the project will finish. How does this information is derive for the one critical of duration of 2 days I have left.
I have attached the mpp file for your reference if u want to look at it. When u open the file you will see the resource conflicts red man and also the critical task highlighted in red. Just select resource level all and see what happens only one task remains that is critical.
Sorry could not attach the mpp I just can't see the attach option.
best rgds
Kish
