What is a best practice for linking Just-In-Time Tasks?
In MS Project, what is a best practice for linking Just-In-Time tasks, so that a task is scheduled to take place just prior to another task, without use of date constraints or overriding scheduling logic? As an example, I have a task "task prep" that I want to complete just before "important task" starts. "Important task" has other Finish-Start predecessors that determine when it starts. The only thing driving "task prep" is that it must finish just before "important task" starts. These tasks have slack in the schedule that I want to maintain, so I can't use As Late As Possible constraint without pushing both tasks to the right and using up slack. There isn't a task preventing "task prep" from starting, so if I link "task prep" as a predecessor to "important task" with Finish-Start (FS), with As Soon As Possible, then "task prep" will be scheduled to happen long before I want to perform that task. If I use Start-Finish (SF), then the start date of "Important task" drives the finish date of "Task Prep" The dates line up, but SF dependency type is generally not recommended. Also, I do not want to use date constraints, as these are generally not recommended. How can I link these tasks so that "task prep" finishes just before "important task" while adhering to accepted scheduling standards?Project Remaining Duration as of Status Date
In a Project schedule, The % Complete entered during an update doesn't seem to push the task Finish Date as it should. The task has a Start date of 6/9/25, Finish date of 9/23/25, duration of 14.95 weeks. The Status date is 9/12/25, Actual start 6/9/25 (on schedule) but progress is 2% Complete, Remaining Duration is 13.45 wks. When I click Update Project and reschedule uncomplete work to start as of Status Date (9/12/25) the Finish Date remains 9/23/25. Shouldn't the Finish Date push to approx. 12/12/2025 based on the % complete and remaining duration? There are a handful of tasks in this schedule with a similar issue, so I would like to find out what causes this, so we can make the task Finish Dates update as you would expect when updating % complete and Remaining Duration on tasks as of the status date. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated. There are no date constraints on the task, and "Split In-Progress tasks" is selected in the Schedule Options. We are using a 4 day a week/10 hours a day calendar. We assign Generic Resources to tasks but this particular task is NOT resource loaded. This task is linked with both a predecessor and successor, and both the predecessor and successor are statused 100% complete. Could this be why Project isn't updating the Finish Date for this task, since its successor is complete? We are using Project Server. This project has been published with the status date of 9/12/25.
Creating a Project through Graph API "msdyn_CreateProjectV1"
I want to create a new Project online plan using Microsoft Graph API, so i used this end point and action inside my flow:- now the action will run successfully, and it should have created a new Project with subject = "Subject Test from automate", as follow:- but i can not find the new project inside the UI:- any advice?
Cannot Force Checkin: Project Web App
My team got project stuck in the queue and we can't publish any other projects as 2 jobs got stuck and causing other projects to continue to be in a wait. I tried to 1) Cancel the publish job (not successful) force checkin a project (not successful either) and it continues to stay in this state for several hours "Waiting To Be Processed" Please help!!Project online REST API for Project Manager approval on Task status update
Hi all, I am currently working on a custom solution that integrates multiple functionalities interacting with Project Online data. As part of a new requirement, whenever a team member submits a task update in timesheet, I aim to provide Project Managers with the ability to approve task updates directly from a custom page. My initial approach was to utilize the Project REST API (_api/ProjectServer), but I have not been able to locate an appropriate endpoint that supports this functionality. Could anyone kindly guide me to the specific REST API endpoint (if available) that can be used to approve task updates? Any insights or alternative approaches would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards Shruti Vyas
