Hi Nantia,

Don't worry about it, I post questions as well when I get stuck

One last question please, is there a "clever" way to calculate the optimal lag period? I would made the lag period the same as the duration of the preceding phase. For example, Server 1, Phase 1 has a duration of 3 days so the dependency for task 3 would be 7fs-3days.

Ideally in my project, all tasks should be sequential with no delay between them. So when we say that task 4 ('Pre-check') has dependency '7fs-10d' then this means that task 7 (phase 2) can start 10 days after task 4 has finished, correct? Correct - see above



Does it make sense to have a different lag period per server depending on the duration of phase 1? Or the lag period should not be related at all with the actual duration of the tasks of phase 1? Based on how I would approach it, it is related to the duration of phase 1.

Hope this helps,

Margaret

Another quick point - it might make it easier for you to view as you are starting up to have one of the standard formats - I think you have manually formatted the summary bars. As well as to have the weekends showing on the weekly view. See attachment 1

&You can then add flags and format the text bars so that they roll up to give the view that you want when you print it. See attachment 2 (look at it in print preview to see the key to the bars)

Regards,

Margaret

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