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Thu, 2005-07-07 01:42
Ismail Vandeliwala
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Currently after update i have found a peculiar situation in my update. There is an activity with a single predecessor and successor, the total float of this activity is very high and in no way co-relates to the backwardpass calculations of the schedule. Both the predessor and the successor of the activity have a FS link.

Has anyone experienced this before and can explain to me why it is happenning and what’s the solution.
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Mon, 2005-07-11 00:18
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Ismail Vandeliwala
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Thanks David you were right.
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Mon, 2005-07-11 00:13
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Ismail Vandeliwala
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hi, thanks for all the suggestion.

Finally managed to figure out the problem. the current problem that i am facing with the float is due to the Scheduling option being set to Progress Overide. Once it has been reset to retained logic then the floats are ok.
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Sat, 2005-07-09 13:07
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Sat, 2005-07-09 07:31
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Ismail Vandeliwala
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thanks for the response..........but the activity is not an open ended activity. it has a successor with a finish to start link and the successor has a negative float.

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Thu, 2005-07-07 20:24
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Sukumaran Subaram...
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Check the last activity in the sequence. If the activity is left as an open end, link it to the nearest next relevant activity and re-calculate the schedule.

Regards.
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Thu, 2005-07-07 12:08
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David Andreotti
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Any chance you have Progress override turned on? Or maybe you need to run the pfxw utility.

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Thu, 2005-07-07 03:01
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Ismail Vandeliwala
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i checked the calender first, that’s the same as the project calender and the same for the activity and it’s predecessors & successors
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Thu, 2005-07-07 02:21
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Suraj Bhatt
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I think calendar might be a problem.Just check the activity calendar..is it same as the project calendar?
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Sat, 2005-07-09 22:41
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Raj Maurya
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Ismail,
If everything is ok as per suggestions of other planners and you still have same problem try to add a new activity with same duration and dependencies and see if this give correct float?
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