MS Project, Task Floating Date

Question

Good day,

I have a project with a series of tasks.

One of the tasks in the middle needs to be stared/completed before the rest can be started.

How do I illustrate the task in question being tied to the current date therefore showing how we are pushing out the end date?

My apologizes if this is posted somewhere, I have yet to find it

Thank you,

Answer 1

Ronald,

It sounds like you have a intermediate milestone in the middle of your project. Something must be driving it.

If it's not a milestone but some other kind of task the needs to be completed before the rest of the project can keep moving, you can set a start-no-earlier-than constraint of the task. The easiest way to do that is to manually enter the start date. There is no built-in way to tie that start date to the current date. It could be done with a paste link from a custom date field that queues on the current date but paste links are prone to corruption. It could also be done with a very simple VBA macro that runs every time the file is open but the easiest way to do it is to manually update the start any time you need to show management how that task is slipping the project.

Hope this helps.

John