Holding a project at a certain task

Cheryl J Carroll

• December 05, 2018 21:56

Is there a way to have specific tasks needing to be complete before the project moves forward without just adding days to that task until it happens?  For example, the client has to provide comments and until we mark that as done, the component does not move forward with the next tasks.  

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  Margaret Campbell

  • December 07, 2018 16:23
  • Edited

  There is! In the advanced tab of the Task Edit screen, the very last option is to allow for "Auto-Rescheduling":
  
  
  
  

  As you can imagine, this could potentially mess up your project plan because dates are moving on their own, but the your example above is the EXACT USE CASE for this feature.

  How it works:

  • Go to the Task that's DEPENDENT on the "Client Provides Comments" task
  • Set the "Delay Task until the Predecessors are marked complete" option
  • "Increase Delay by" asks you how many days to push the task (usually set to 1d at a time)
  • If you leave the "Re-calculate When" field blank, it will move the task on the task's scheduled start date; therefore, you can say "Don't push the task unless it's X number of days passed the scheduled start date"

  Let us know if that solves the challenge!! Happy scheduling!

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