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Adding Dates
Hi,
I haven't used MS Project for the last month so I'm having a blank. I've set up a new project today and when I've gone to enter dates against the tasks I can't? Can you please help.
Thanks
RE: Adding Dates
Hi Leeora
Thank you for your question.
Can you clarify your problem for me?
Are you entering tasks and trying to specify specific dates for specific tasks, or have you entered all the tasks, with durations and dependencies and simply wish to put date constraints against selected tasks
Thanks
Stephen
RE: Adding Dates
Hi Stephen,
Thank you for getting back to me.
I have entered all the tasks and now I'm trying to go back and put dates against each of them. Well, some of them as I don't have all the dates yet. For a lot of them it's mainly end dates that I have information for. I entered resources against the tasks and that worked.
Thanks
Leeora
RE: Adding Dates
Hi Leeora
Thanks for the info
If you have entered tasks with durations and dependencies, then they will already have completion dates. What you are trying to do is set deadlines and constraints against tasks, to compare what is going to happen with what you want to happen.
If you double click on a task in the table section of the GANTT chart you will open the task information sheet. If you then go to the advanced tab you can enter a range of constraints and deadlines against the task.
If you enter constraints it is possible to get a scheduling conflict, where a constraint "breaks the logic" of the program. To overcome this, if you click on tools-options-scheduling and remove the tick from Tasks will always honour their constraint dates. As a result, tasks will always remain starting at the earliest time that the projects calculates as possible. If however, this is later that a required date a warning message will appear in the indicators column, allowing you to take stpes to correct this
Regards
Stephen
