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MS Project Auto Date set

Anonymous
2019-10-16T11:10:39+00:00

Hi,

I have several tasks and milestones in my project. The milestones has specific dates which is manually scheduled (can be changed in future according to situation of the project). I want to set dates of every tasks depend on these milestones. For instance, I have a task named 1.3 and I have two milestones named M1 and M2. All I wanted is set start date of 1.3 as date of M1 and M2 for finish date. Can anyone help me?

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John Project 49,705 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2019-10-16T15:56:45+00:00

Ahmet,

What you are seeking is called a hammock task. Details on setting it up are described in this Wiki article.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/32040.ms-project-hammock-tasks.aspx

There is no reason to set your milestones as manually scheduled, simply enter the desired date into the Start field of the milestone of an auto-scheduled task. By default, milestones occur at the normal start time which is 8:00 AM. If you want the first milestone to be at normal start time but the finish milestone to be at the normal finish time (5:00 PM), you need to pick a display date format, (File > options > general group), that includes the time and then manually set the finish time.

This screen shot shows an example of the scenario your describe (I manually adjusted the M2 milestone finish time to 5:00 PM).

Hope this helps.

John

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  1. John Project 49,705 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2019-10-17T14:27:47+00:00

    Ahmet,

    You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.

    john

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-17T09:50:56+00:00

    Thank you very much, John. I copied dates from milestones and pasted "link" to my task and it worked. 

    Have a nice day...

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