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Old 10-26-2015, 08:15 AM
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Hello together,



have the following problem:

I have a Project plan that contains a base development section and several customer activity sections.

In the customer activity sections, I want to show a task that summarizes several base development tasks. Therefore, I want to start the summarizing task at "base development Milestone #1" and it should end with "base development Milestone #2". The Goal is that the summarizing task should change its duration automatically with the start/end Milestones accordingly.

I want to make an example, for better understanding: let's assume I want to develop a total new screw, let's call it the "67/18" screw". The Project starts with Milestone #1 and I have to do several things: find out the right material for that screw, prepare CAD models and drawings, let the sample shop produce some of those screws, make screwing Trials etc. ... finally, the Project Ends with Milestone #2.

In my customer section, I don't want to Show all that in Detail, I only want to Show one task, named "development of 67/18" screw", beginning with Milestone #1 and ending with Milestone #2. The Duration should Change automatically if the Milestone are shifted.

I tried to link the summary task with both Milestones, but it does not work without defining a Duration for that task. Does anybody have an idea?

FYI: I don't have ressources allocated to my Tasks.

Thank you and best regards,
Alex
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Old 10-26-2015, 09:56 AM
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o.k. after some more search, I think a Hammock Task can help me ... but I don't like that solution very much: I don't see where the Task is linked to, and the solution seems to be sensitive to accidentially changes ... any further ideas how to solve that smarter?
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Old 10-27-2015, 04:48 AM
Guloluseus Guloluseus is offline How to create "parallel" tasks? Windows 7 64bit How to create "parallel" tasks? Office 2010 32bit
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I have had the same situation many times myself, usually where we need to see a summary of how long an area will be in use, and don't like hammocks much myself either.

depending on how you want to show things exactly, this may or may not solve it for you.
Creat a WBS (summary) called "Development of screw". Put 2 tasks in it, being milestone a and milestone b. Link milestone a to your milestone 1 (start of development) and b to 2 (end of development). The summary bar will then give you the overall duration of the required activities.

Its not particularly elegant, but it does show the required info. Because you are essentially copying the original milestones (the links from a to 1 and b to 2 mean the start/finish always remain the same) you have visibility of the actual dates while hiding the detail. I usually end up with a whole section of these (lots of areas of work) and its easiest just to stick them under a summary task again so you can see everything at once.

Hope that's useful to you.
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Old 10-28-2015, 02:29 AM
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that's not exactly what I wanted to have, but it seems to be the easiest alternative (so easy that I wonder why I haven't figured that out myself) ... thank you !
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Old 10-29-2015, 03:06 PM
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Yeah.. I know its not an ideal solution, but it works
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