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Stretching Activity durations

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Wed, 2005-06-01 07:53
Alex Costaras
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Is there a way of stretching an activity’s duration in MSP. I’ve got a test activity that I want to span the gap between the earliest and latest equipment deliveries, but not as a hammock.

e.g.
......|Act A ======|
........................|Act B ==========|
Act C ===========================

What I need is for the duration of Act C to fluctuate as the predecessors change. But I want it to be a Task, not a summary bar or hammock
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Fri, 2005-06-03 03:27
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Will Russell
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Me and my big mouth!! Of course you would only link the start of the first delivery task to the first milestone....doh!!

Will
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Fri, 2005-06-03 03:21
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Will Russell
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Using the second technique as described by Sukumaran (very impressed with that by the way) you can link the start of all the delivery tasks to the first milestone and the finish of all the delivery tasks to the second milestone then it won’t matter which delivery is first or which delivery is last, the testing task will always show the duration over that whole period.
Will
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Thu, 2005-06-02 03:17
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Sukumaran Subaram...
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Create 2 dummy milestones. Link the earliest date and latest date to each milestone. Indent the milestone to create summary bar.

Highlight summary bar. Go to Format > Bar > Bar Shape. Remove start & end shapes. Change the middle bar to Task bar shape. Click OK and hide subtask.

Now when the predecessors change the duration for the above bar will fluctuate.

Regards.

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Thu, 2005-06-02 02:56
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Alex Costaras
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Thanks zhang,

That did exactly what I wanted - you’re a star!
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Thu, 2005-06-02 00:29
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Zhang Haixiang
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1. right click start date of actA, then click "Copy cell"
2. right click start date of actC, then click "paste special...", then click "Paste link"

do the same for finish date

hope this helps
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