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LukaszMa
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Parent Task Predecesors

  • March 30, 2023
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Dear All,

 

Does anyone know if assigning predecessors to parent task causes any issues or is not a good practice when building your timeline or template? Has anyone seen any documentation related to this matter? We have several templets at use and our Project team reports that project timelines do not recalculate upon changes where parent task include predecessors. I believe this occurs randomly.

 

Thanks,

Lukasz

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Best answer by KellieGardner

We use predecessors on parent tasks and don't seem to have any issues.

 

Make sure that the duration types on tasks aren't set as hard constraint types such as must finish on or must start on.

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KellieGardner
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KellieGardnerCommunity AdvisorAccepted solution
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March 30, 2023

We use predecessors on parent tasks and don't seem to have any issues.

 

Make sure that the duration types on tasks aren't set as hard constraint types such as must finish on or must start on.

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    LukaszMaAuthor
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    March 30, 2023

    Thanks Kellie,

     

    We use ASAP as the common constrain across all templates, still the PMs report having issues with timelines not calculating properly on change.

    KellieGardner
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    KellieGardnerCommunity Advisor
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    March 30, 2023

    If project managers are changing the dates on their projects at all it will update the task constraint. Even though you've set it at the template level any changes to dates could affect it on an individual project. 

      DeniseMoore
      DeniseMoore
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      March 30, 2023

      Hello! We definitely use predecessors and cross project predecessors on parent tasks. And we enforce most of our predecessors as well. Something to maybe check out is whether your projects' "Summary Completion Mode" is set to automatic or manual. We have ours set within all of our project templates as "automatic" so the status and percent complete of our parent tasks are automatically updated based on the children tasks.

      Hope this helps. : )

       
        Doug_Den_Hoed_AtAppStore
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        Doug_Den_Hoed_AtAppStoreCommunity Advisor
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        March 30, 2023

         

        Hi @lukaszma,

         

        In addition to the ideas @denisemoore and @kelliegardner offered, I suggest you review this Pop Quiz: Cross Project Predecessor Toughies post, which might also be related.

         

        Regards,

        Doug

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