Workfront Tasks - update based on end date | Community
Skip to main content
H
hb20051
September 29, 2022
Question

Workfront Tasks - update based on end date

  • September 29, 2022
  • 1 reply
  • 2093 views

Apologies if this has been asked and answered. I tried searching for it before asking.

 

Does anyone know how to automatically update the tasks in reverse order, meaning you update say the Launch Date which would be at the bottom of the tasks list and it automatically updates the previous tasks based on predecessors being set? I essentially am looking for the inverse effect of predecessors updating tasks that follow. Thank you!

This post is no longer active and is closed to new replies. Need help? Start a new post to ask your question.

1 reply

M
maura-k
September 29, 2022

It sounds like the Schedule Mode is what you would want to update. When the Schedule Mode is set to "Completion Date", it will allow you to define the completion date for the project and the timeline for the tasks will be built so that the last task (determined by the predecessor) will be completed on that date and all the previous task dates will be built to support that completion date. 

 

You can find the Schedule Mode in the Overview section of the Project Details or when you click the three dots next to the Project name and Edit.

    K
    KevinQu1
    October 5, 2022

    Be warned:

    We wanted to work that way as well, but our onboarding specialist strongly advised against it. They advise just manually adjusting dates to make the end date work out (active rather than passive).

    We tried it anyway, of course, and boy does WF act wierd when working backwards.

    Heather_Kulbacki
    Community Advisor
    Heather_KulbackiCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    October 6, 2022

    It's interesting, we have a few people on our team who have worked from Completion Date in another application and they have zero problems with doing it in Workfront. 

    But I JUST CAN'T wrap my head around it and get it to work the way my brain thinks it should.

     

    I also don't like that if I need to change that completion date for whatever reason, my predecessors cause the planned date of completed tasks to change. I'm sure I could remove a predecessor somewhere to keep those competed tasks as-is, but that seems too manual.

    I also don't like that I can't just move out the planned completion date of the last task without first updating the project's planned completion date - it seems like a lot of manual work to schedule that way.

    Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement

    Loading footer...