Why am I getting negative float on connections/links to an external schedule?

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John

There are some calculation issue with the way that P6 calculates the Late Dates and I have experianced this issue when I have a relationship bewteen a Task on one calendar and an Successor Finish Milestone on another Calendar. I ended up with 600 days negative float on a two year long project once. We found by changing Finish Milestones to zero Duration tasks or Start Milestones the Late dates calculated differently and thus Total Float calculated differently.

I informed Oracle several years ago and I was assured it was on their fix list but the issue has not yet resolved!

This may give you a pointer as to what is causing your issue.

Also have you check for External Dates? These are constraint that are crete when you inport a project and do terrible things to a scheule if you do not know they are there!

Regards

Paul E Harris

BSc Hons, Certified Cost Engineer, PRINCE2 Practitioner

Managing Director and President

Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Australia