Stretching Activity durations

Me and my big mouth!! Of course you would only link the start of the first delivery task to the first milestone....doh!!



Will

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

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.

Alex,

you know, that’s EXACTLY the way to mimmick a hammock task in MS Project !

Alexandre

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

Hello,

No version of MS Project knows what a hammock is.

It is possible to mimmick a hammock task by creating a paste-link between the predecessor and successor and the task itself.

Now, if you want a span task which is not a hammock nor a summary task, what exactly do you want?

Alexandre