Creating a schedule

Creating a schedule#

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For the schedule, you add dependencies and dates to the breakdown structure. The Gantt view is best suited for this.

You must have permissions to change items in the intended project or workspace. You must have the license to use the Gantt chart enabled (see Managing regular users).

Make sure that you are displaying the plan and not the baseline (deselect Gantt > Settings > Show baseline). Make sure that you have created all items (without dates and dependencies). (see Entering the work breakdown structure)

Then proceed as follows:

  • First create the dependencies. For a finish-to-start relationship, click the small circle at the end of the bar of the predecessor item in the Gantt chart and drag the mouse pointer to the small circle on the left of the bar of the successor item. As the link type, choose “is end point for an MS Project task link” and as the dependency type “finish to start”. You can enforce a time lag in doing so (the units are t=day, ft= ??, W=week, M=month). This lag is not removed even when the plan is normalized (the removal of all unnecessary delays).

  • You set dates by dragging the bars as a whole so that the start date is correct. Then drag the right end of the bar to the desired end date. You can change the start date, the start and end date, or only the end date of a task by clicking and dragging either the left end, the middle or the right end of the items. Non-working days are taken into account. When you change the dates of parent tasks, all child tasks are moved as well. Filters can be used to fix the dates of the matching items. For example, you can protect all items with dates in the past or completed items against being moved (see Prerequisites for project planning). You can fix dates explicitly by placing and selecting the item attributes FixedDate or FixedTDDate on the input form.

You have now entered all item dependencies and assigned dates to the items.