Allow NS Start/Finish date and Suppress Gantt Graphics
Allow NS Start/Finish date and Suppress Gantt Graphics
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QUESTION:
MS Project 2002
Problem: Gantt Chart always shows a task graphically, even if the task doesn't yet have a valid Start/Finish date. Argh. I can't override the default Start/Finish date with "NA," which I hoped would suppress the Gantt graphic as well as show that the task doesn't yet have a valid date. This means that I have erroneous Gantt graphics and erroneous dates in my MS Project!
Situation: I have a set of 20 tasks/milestones that are considered standard to a process. Therefore, I do NOT want to delete any of these tasks, even if this project team chooses to ignore a given (standard) task or chooses to not assign a start and finish date yet.
Reasoning:
1. I'd like to communicate to the project team that a certain task, although usually standard, is NA (not applicable) for this project. I'd like it to be clear that a task was not "left out," instead, it was "intentionally left blank." Maybe I want to use the Note column to explain why the date is "NA."
2. I'd like the Gantt chart to be blank for that task, because it is only a placeholder for a normal process. 3. I certainly DON'T want the Start/Finish columns to show a bogus, default date! (MS Project defaults to the Project Start Date.
WORKAROUNDS? Solution?
Thanks in advance!
MS Project 2002
Problem: Gantt Chart always shows a task graphically, even if the task doesn't yet have a valid Start/Finish date. Argh. I can't override the default Start/Finish date with "NA," which I hoped would suppress the Gantt graphic as well as show that the task doesn't yet have a valid date. This means that I have erroneous Gantt graphics and erroneous dates in my MS Project!
Situation: I have a set of 20 tasks/milestones that are considered standard to a process. Therefore, I do NOT want to delete any of these tasks, even if this project team chooses to ignore a given (standard) task or chooses to not assign a start and finish date yet.
Reasoning:
1. I'd like to communicate to the project team that a certain task, although usually standard, is NA (not applicable) for this project. I'd like it to be clear that a task was not "left out," instead, it was "intentionally left blank." Maybe I want to use the Note column to explain why the date is "NA."
2. I'd like the Gantt chart to be blank for that task, because it is only a placeholder for a normal process. 3. I certainly DON'T want the Start/Finish columns to show a bogus, default date! (MS Project defaults to the Project Start Date.
WORKAROUNDS? Solution?
Thanks in advance!





RE: Allow NS Start/Finish date and Suppress Gantt Graphics
But now how to get rid of that date from the Start/Finish columns?
RE: Allow NS Start/Finish date and Suppress Gantt Graphics
For example, If there is a parent task called, "RESEARCH" and there are two subtasks, "TYPE A" and "TYPE B"
and this project isn't going to use TYPE B, so we "Hide task bar"
the problem is that the TYPE B task STILL drives the summary task bar, rendering it useless unless the user puts in a bogus date that falls within the other start and stop dates. obviously not a good solution!
RE: Allow NS Start/Finish date and Suppress Gantt Graphics
RE: Allow NS Start/Finish date and Suppress Gantt Graphics
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RE: Allow NS Start/Finish date and Suppress Gantt Graphics