Why is Can Start = False?

[Lyndsy-Denk]

Before I ping support, I thought I would throw this out to the community. I have two tasks in a project with predecessors that have been met, but the Can Start value is False. Why? Is there something hinky going on with that cross-project predecessor?

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

Hi @Lyndsy-Denk,

Does Recalculate Timeline resolve it?

Regards,

Doug

[Lyndsy-Denk]

Nope. I tried that several times.

[nryan2]

Have you checked the Task Constraint?

[Lyndsy-Denk]

Both tasks are set to As Soon As Possible.

[Lyndsy-Denk]

Update: I busted my theory that the issue is with the cross-project predecessor. When I removed all predecessors in the problematic tasks, Can Start flipped to True. So I was able to narrow it down the culprit to predecessor 6, which is a parent task. All child tasks under 6 are complete. One child task has a constraint of Start No Earlier Than, but when I changed it to Must Start On or even As Soon As Possible, Can Start still said False.

[skyehansen]

I'm so sorry, can you start over with your explanation? And maybe include a screenshot that shows task 6? I'm just wondering what the status, and maybe other specifics of task 6 is (you've said it's a parent, you've said all children are complete, but you haven't specified if the parent is complete). Also, has this ever worked or are you trying something new and can't get it working?

[Lyndsy-Denk · Accepted solution]

No need to apologize!

While preparing my new summary for you, though, I found the culprit: One of the child tasks under task 6 had open issues. This fact was hidden to me because we rely a fair amount on the Percent Complete field, which apparently we can set to 100% and the status will remain In Progress. As a result of this revelation, I have posted an idea for folks to upvote: Disallow 100% Percent Complete if there are open i... - Adobe Experience League Community - 748142

[Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore]

Well spotted @Lyndsy-Denk,

That tracks, and is As Designed, but...yeah.

Regards,

Doug