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MS Project, Turn off Critical Path, but keep date cascading.
Okay, got an interesting one here (I hope). My company wants to turn off the
automatic critical path identification function of MS project. However, when
we do that it appears to impact the use of dependencies. If the Calculation
Mode is set to Manual rather than Automatic, then the pushing of dependent
task dates does not occur. Is there a way to maintain the automatic
calculations, but turn off the critical path identification portion of it?
Thank you.
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Try Format/Gantt Chart Wizard and de-select Critical when you get to it.
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seen at this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm
Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)
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2/17/2010 5:46:36 PM
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Click on the Gantt Chart, select bar styles, identify the Critical Path task,
and change the color so that it matches Normal tasks.
- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm
> Okay, got an interesting one here (I hope). My company wants to turn
> off the automatic critical path identification function of MS project.
> However, when we do that it appears to impact the use of dependencies.
> If the Calculation Mode is set to Manual rather than Automatic, then
> the pushing of dependent task dates does not occur. Is there a way to
> maintain the automatic calculations, but turn off the critical path
> identification portion of it? Thank you.
>
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Andrew
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2/17/2010 5:53:55 PM
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:27:01 -0800, Matt M wrote:
> Okay, got an interesting one here (I hope). My company wants to turn off the
> automatic critical path identification function of MS project. However, when
> we do that it appears to impact the use of dependencies. If the Calculation
> Mode is set to Manual rather than Automatic, then the pushing of dependent
> task dates does not occur. Is there a way to maintain the automatic
> calculations, but turn off the critical path identification portion of it?
> Thank you.
Showing or hiding the CP has no effect on dependencies or if or how they
are calculated. Setting calculation to "Manual" will certainly stop any
automatically calculated changes, including pushing dependent tasks out
when a predecessor slips. The two are independent. Just turn of display of
CP (by running the Gantt Chart Wizard) and turn calculation to Automatic.
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